WTLE Press & Media Appearances
Apps That Keep You Happy On The Road
October 18, 2009
Stuck in the airport after missing a connecting flight? There's an app for that, as the people at Apple like to say. In truth, there's an iPhone application for just about everything these days, especially travel. We've rounded up some of the best trip-friendly apps, from electronic postcards to where to find cheap gas. And don't forget to turn off data roaming before you hit the road so you're not whacked with some nasty surcharges when you get back. Unfortunately, there's no app for that.
http://www.boston.com/travel/articles/2009/10/18/apps_that_keep_you_happy_on_the_road/?page=1
Get Tasty Discounts with Killer App
September 6, 2009
Sushi lovers can snag free dessert with their next California roll. BondSt is the latest restaurant to offer diners a coupon—free dessert with the purchase of an entrée—through LocalEats, a mobile phone application that was launched last summer.
More than 100 city restaurants, including Métrazur and The Four Seasons, have jumped on the app's coupon feature in an effort to stir up business. Eateries pay $249 for six months or $399 for a year to participate, and choose the discount they'd like to offer. The app works on iPhones and some BlackBerrys.
"Frankly, we had our doubts about the nicer restaurants participating, but we were amazed at the quality and quantity of places that were interested," says Bill King, chairman of Magellan Press, which produces the app, as well as the Where the Locals Eat book series. But the app can't save everyone. Café des Artistes, whose LocalEats coupon offered 10% off the final bill, closed last month.
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090906/SUB/309069987
LocalEats
August 12, 2009
Supper time!
When traveling, as in Mexico say, I tend to frequent the spots where all the Mexicans are eating in numbers, rather than where all the straw hat, madras short-wearing tourists are eating with relish. Sure, some digestion indiscretion may ensue for gringos without the hardened, intestinal bellies of Mexican heritage and upbringing, but I'll take the cheap and delicious meal over the non-local food any day. The same principle can be applied to here in the States, with, I promise you, much less incidence of Montezuma's Revenge. From the cheap eat cafes with the worn down, hardwood flooring, metal studded bar stools and eclectic, comfy chairs with mosaic-tile inset fireplaces, to the more expensive and exquisite meals at places like Aqua and Quince, practically unknown to foreigners of the city, but famous among its neighborhood locals, local dining joints comprise a large part of a city's culture. But chic appearances aside, it's oftentimes difficult to separate the good food from the bad, and what better place to figure out which are the best local eats, than an iPhone app by the very name LocalEats?
http://appstruck.com/2009/08/iPhone-App-Review-localeats/
LocalEats is "Pimp"
July 19, 2009
How to Double your dating experience with iPhone travel apps.These iPhone travel apps will help a you find an ATM, restaurants, subways, Starbucks, Bank of America, Citi bank, Barneys, or Bloomindales - no problem with these apps.
http://super-fly-life.com/dating/iphone-travel-tips/
App Lets NYC Customers Find Restaurant Deals
July 30, 2009
LocalEats, an iPhone dining guide application, launched a new feature for restaurant customers in New York City. More than 100 restaurants in Manhattan are offering mobile savings directly to customers using LocalEats.
Available for the iPhone 3G, the new iPhone 3GS, and BlackBerry Storm, users simply pull up mobile offers on LocalEats and present them to their waiters before ordering. Many of New York's restaurants have signed on, including the Four Seasons, Daniel, Babbo, Rosa Mexicano and dozens of others across the culinary landscape.
http://www.qsrmagazine.com/articles/news/story.phtml?id=9061
LocalEats app looks to save diners dollars
July 28, 2009
Heading out for a bite in the Big Apple? Then you might want to have LocalEats installed on your iPhone or iPod touch. The $1 restaurant finder has teamed up with local restaurants to offer mobile coupons to the app's users.
Here's how it works: Participating restaurants now sport a green Savings Available badge in LocalEats' New York listings. Tap on the restaurant to go to its entry, and you'll see a Coupons tab at the bottom of the screen next to LocalEats' customary Basics, Description, and Local Map buttons. Tap the Coupon buttons, and you get a horizontally oriented coupon-no corkage fee if you bring a bottle of wine to Alto, for example, or a $59 three-course prix fixe menu at The Four Seasons. When it's time to order, take out your iPhone, show the virtual coupon to your server, and reap the savings.
http://www.macworld.com/article/141956/2009/07/localeats.html
10 iPhone Apps for Foodies
May 6, 2009
Live to eat or eat to live? No matter which motto you choose, with the right apps, your iPhone can keep you well fed. The App Store is brimming with tasty morsels that can serve up the perfect restaurant recommendation, find you a table, or even help you whip up your own feast complete with cocktails. And if you overindulge, there are apps that can help you make better nutritional choices and get you back into shape. The best part is none will cost you more than $2.99. In fact, if you grab all ten of our recommendations, it will set you back a mere $15, which is probably less than you paid for dinner last night.
Ready to eat? Check out our favorite foodie apps and download them until you're full...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2346549,00.asp
The best of the travel applications
March 3, 2009
IPHONE owners reading this will doubtless be aware of some of the many travel-related applications suitable for their new best friends. But if you want some inspiration, USA Today has a useful guide to the killer apps. The New York Times did something similar back in September.
Three applications appear on both lists: Local Eats, Where and Babelingo. The first, costing 99 cents, offers reviews of what it claims are the 100 best restaurants in 50 American cities. Where (available for free) uses your phone's GPS function to list useful local services, like Starbucks and petrol stations. And Babelingo ($3.99) translates words and phrases into 11 languages.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2009/03/the_best_of_the_travel_applica.cfm
Add-on software apps make iPhone a great travel partner
March 2, 2009
Tech-savvy road warriors are enjoying a new era of handheld computing as more sophisticated smartphone software floods the market.
The iPhone, in particular, has amassed more than 900 applications targeting business or leisure travelers. Many applications are free, and others range from 99 cents to $19.99.
Unlike desktop software, iPhone applications are relatively simple tools that don't require hours to learn. Most rely on the phone's embedded GPS chip to tailor information to a traveler's current location, such as spotting nearby Starbucks, Wi-Fi hot spot, police radar, restaurants and taxi companies. Others transform traditional travel tools — foreign language phrase books, city guidebooks, restaurant tip cheat sheets — and render them digitally.
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2009-03-02-iphone-travel-apps_N.htm
24 Most Underrated Websites of 2008
December 20th, 2008
Over the past year we've reviewed sites from just about every cross-section of the web. And yet, so many ground breaking new services haven't received the recognition they deserve: we aim to set that straight.
From niche social networks to job sites and alternative search engines, each of the following excited us in 2008, and we're intrigued to see where they take us in 2009.
Where The Locals Eat - We've all experienced that problem while traveling where all you can find is some overpriced restaurant totally geared towards gouging the tourists. This is why it is always beneficial to find out where the locals eat. The service lists the top 100 spots to grab some grub in the 50 largest cities in the USA.
http://mashable.com/2008/12/20/underrated-websites/
Where The Locals Eat Helps You Enjoy Local Flavors
December 21, 2008
Every sizable city has a host of tourist oriented locations: gimmicky places, over priced eateries, gift shops. Where The Locals Eat is a restaurant guide to spare you searching for delicious and authentic food.
The reviews of local restaurants are divided among the fifty largest cities in the United States, with the top one hundred restaurants in each city further categorized. You can drill down through the reviews to see where the best place to get sushi, burgers, pizza, shrimp, or any of a hundred odd sub-categories of dining. If the town has a great Asian Fusion joint, you'll find it.
More importantly, Where The Locals Eat makes it their business to ensure you'll find it. Every review includes the basics: address, phone number, website if they have one and also includes a map, driving instructions, and the ability to send all that information to your mobile phone. If you're sporting an iPhone, there an application called LocalEats. If you have no idea what you're in the mood for, but you want something local and delicious, Where The Locals Eat has a Top 100 Map function that displays all of the top restaurants surrounding you. Now when laying semi-comatose from jet lag in your hotel room, you can impress your travel companions by pulling a great (and close!) dining pick out of thin air.
http://lifehacker.com/5115205/where-the-locals-eat-helps-you-enjoy-local-flavors
Zagat gets some competition
November 12, 2008
A new dining guide, Where the Locals Eat: New York, came out yesterday. It pinpoints the Big Apple's top 100 restaurants and tips off readers to more than 200 'neighborhood favorites.' Among its Top 100 list are Amy Ruth's, The 2nd Avenue Deli and Prune. The book is available for $14.95 at Barnes & Noble, local bookstores and online at www.amazon.com.
http://weblogs.amny.com/entertainment/urbanite/blog/2008/11/zagat_gets
New restaurant guide names NYC's Top 100
November 11, 2008
The book takes an editorial approach rather than the customer-review tack used by the city's most popular dining guide, Zagat Survey. Where the Locals Eat gives descriptions of its choices for '100 Best Restaurants in New York,' as well as another 200 eateries, separated by neighborhood.... 'Without a doubt, New York City is heaven for foodies — no other city has such a diverse selection of top-notch restaurants,' said Bill King, founder of Magellan Press Inc., which published the guide. 'Because there are so many great options in New York City, the idea behind our new book is to guide not list.'
http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps
Review: LocalEats for iPhone
October 29, 2008
Me, I find LocalEats to be a handy addition to my travel gear—not just because it helps me find new places to explore, but because it helps me remember great places I've already eaten. A few years ago, I had the best crab cakes in the known universe at a restaurant just a few clicks away from the Baltimore-Washington International Airport—trouble was, I couldn't remember the name of the establishment. Well, after tapping on Baltimore, then Categories, then Crab cakes, I was able to track down the G&M Restaurant & Lounge in beautiful Linthicum Heights, Md.
http://www.macworld.com/article/136457/2008/10/localeats.html?t=
Editor's review of LocalEats
August 20, 2008
...the ability to search restaurants by alphabetical order, cuisine type, or the best of each category speaks highly of LocalEats, as do the quick links for getting Google driving directions, calling the restaurant, or opening the Web site in Safari.
http://www.download.com/LocalEats/3000-13592_4-10877383.html
The best off all dining guide apps in America for your iPhone
August 19, 2008
Wanna know where the locals eat? Find food off the beaten path with LocalEasts iPhone app. This app does not list any chain restaurants and features best 100 restaurnts in top 50 US cities. Find what is near you. Restarunts listed alphabetically, by category, best of, by neighborhoods and more. Includes maps and driving directions.
http://www.iphonetechzone.com/tag/localeats/
New program helps foodies
August 14, 2008
A new app for the iPhone points New York foodies to the closest restaurant. The program called LocalEats can be downloaded at the Apple App Store on iTunes for 99 cents. The program features a hundred restaurants that the creator, MagellanPress, considered tops in the city. The app directs you to nearby restaurants using the iPhone's GPS technology and it provides reviews.
AM_New_York_081408.pdf
LocalEats to Come in Handy for Hungry iPhone Users
August 14, 2008
iPhone owners who usually don't like to eat at home have now a new app that can help them in finding the way to a good restaurant. Named LocalEats and developed by Magellan Press, Inc., the application relies on the GPS capabilities of Apple's handset in order to lead hungry people to a restaurant of their choice in 50 of US' most important cities.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/LocalEats-To-Come-In-Handy-for-Hungry-iPhone-Users-91899.shtml
LocalEats for iPhone useful, but no definitive dining resource
AppleInsider
August 13, 2008
Magellan Press has released LocalEats for iPhone, a 99 cent application (App Store) designed as an extension to the Where the Locals Eat series of print dining guides and website.
The application currently focuses on delivering profiles of the top 100 restaurants in the 50 largest U.S. cities. Users can find restaurants "Near Me" via the iPhone's GPS technology, check out choice eateries in a specific neighborhood, or peruse the "Best Of" specific local cuisines.
Read more: AppleInsider_081408.pdf
New LocalEats iPhone Application: High-Tech Dining Guide Directs Foodies to the 100 Best Restaurants in Top 50 US Cities
CenterDaily.com
August 13, 2008
From burger joints to sushi bars to white-tablecloth dining establishments, LocalEats(TM) makes it easy to discover the best restaurants in America. With just a few touches, users can find restaurants "Near Me" via the iPhone's GPS technology, check out choice eateries in a specific neighborhood or peruse the "Best Of" in a restaurant category. Instantly, diners receive detailed descriptions, reviews and directions, and can call for reservations or visit the restaurant's website.
Read more: CentreDaily_081408.pdf
New iPhone Dining Application Points You to Best Eats
August 13, 2008
The last iPhone dining application to make news was Urbanspoon, which frustrated Times critic Frank Bruni a little bit with its random slot machine approach to locating a good nearby restaurant. So we're curious to see if the latest iPhone toy, LocalEats, is more Bruni's speed. This feature seems pretty simple; drawing from a list of the 100 best restaurants in Manhattan and Brooklyn (as decreed by the folks at Where the Locals Eat), LocalEats uses GPS technology to refer users to the best nearby dining options. Which could come in handy when you're getting hungry in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
http://gothamist.com/2008/08/13/new_iphone_dining_application_direc.php
LocalEats for the iPhone maps NYC's 100 best eats
August 13, 2008
LocalEats is a new, already popular application for the iPhone that uses GPS technology to lead users to New York City's 100 best restaurants - starting with the ones closest to where they're standing when the mood strikes.
http://www.newyorkology.com/archives/2008/08/localeats_for_t.php
Where are you going to eat tonight?
August 2, 2008
Are you getting bored with your favorite restaurants? If so, maybe it's time to shake things up and try something new.
Of course, we're all feeling budget constraints. So, you don't want to waste your money at a mediocre restaurant.
That's why I like Where the Locals Eat. It lists the best restaurants in dozens of American cities. At a glance, you can find an excellent restaurant near you.
http://www.komando.com/coolsites/index.aspx?id=5249
appSafari.com
Wanna know where the locals eat? Find food off the beaten path with LocalEasts iPhone app. This app does not list any chain restaurants and features best 100 restaurants in top 50 US cities. Find what is near you. Restaurants listed alphabetically, by category, best of, by neighborhoods and more. Includes maps and driving directions.
http://www.appsafari.com/food/5710/localeats/