Hopefully, the developers will add that in a future version. Improvements wed like to see - The app has good coverage. Reviews, written by other diners, help you narrow down the search. Give it a spin and Urbanspoon suggests the best nearby spot, and you can also select a type of food or price range to narrow your choices. My only gripe is that i would have liked to see some integration with OpenTable, so that i could make the actual reservations from the phone. Urbanspoon puts a dash of fun into the experience, with a slot-machine simulator. This app will definetly come in handy on business trips. Again, since the data is from trusted sources, the results are generally very good (see NYTimes review here). T-REX Cafe is a prehistoric family adventure This interactive attraction includes a full-service restaurant with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and simulated meteor showers, as well as an impressive Octopus Bar, a dinosaur-themed retail store, and our interactive Paleo Zone. Of course, since the app lives on the iPhone, you can easily map directions to the restaurants from your current location, or even find a list of “restaurants near me”. This “social” aspect is very well designed, and actually quite usefull. You can also build up and share list of favorite restaurants with you friends. You can drill down further, read reviews of Boa by critics that actually count, such as the LA times, and even twitter about them from within the application. ![]() I fixed the location (Santa Monica) and the cuisine (Steak), and the app chose Boa, which just happens to be one of my favorite LA restaurants. The signature page of the app is a slot machine type interface, where you shake the iPhone and the app picks a restaurant randomly. Now, UrbanSpoon is available as an app on iPhone, and I have to complement the team on a very cleverly designed, fun, and ultimately very usefull application. ![]() ![]() Unlike Yelp, which relies on social/user reviews, Urban Spoon took the approach of incorporating existing review data from trusted sources like CitiSearch. The restaurant looks like a forest with snowy mountains in the middle.Urban Spoon is a small Seattle startup (three employees as of last year: see this coverage), focused on the restaurant review space. Outside there is an Argentinosaurus skeleton and on the other side a parasaurolophus sits in a pond fed by a waterfall with some plants by it. They have interactive touch screens that have games, toon clips, and things to learn about several of the creatures at the restaurant. T-Rex has a fossil dig in which kids can uncover a T-Rex or find their own fossils to keep and/or split a geode open. meteor shower with various sized asteroids, and the ice cave turns from a blue or purple-pink color to orange to give the feeling it is melting, and all animals hoot, roar, and go berserk. (It appears to have been themed around The Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia.) It features Tyrannosaurus rex, Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Mammoths, Stegosaurus, Parasaurolophus, and multiple pterosaurs, sea jellies, large insect models, alongside a Pachycephalosaurus, 13-foot wide octopus, and 2 fish tanks. The first T-Rex restaurant opened in Kansas City, followed by the opening of another at Downtown Disney in Walt Disney World, on October 17, 2008. Landry's is no longer traded on the NYSE. Landry's went private in 2010 when Tilman Fertitta, the CEO of Landry's and a large shareholder, made an offer to buy all shares. ![]() T-Rex is owned by Landry's Restaurants, which started back in 1920 in Katy, Texas. In the dinosaur-themed area, a gift shop allows customers to "Build-A-Dino", which is provided by Build-A-Bear Workshop, who works in partnership with T-Rex. T-Rex has differently-themed restaurant sections, such as prehistoric insects (which includes enlarged animatronic insects), ice age (which includes ice caves and animatronic mammoths), and under the sea (complete with jellyfish ceiling and large aquarium). Kansas City, Kansas Source T-Rex is a prehistoric themed restaurant that includes a gift shop, along with animatronic dinosaurs that move and roar.
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