THE WEB FOOD GUIDE: 50+ Sites to Learn About Food

By Sean P. Aune2007-09-03 00:54:27 UTC

Whether you've just arrived at college, or moved to a new city for your first job, after the dust settles, you need to know how to cook for yourself, make reservations, or even how to pick a nice wine (if you are of legal drinking age). For the Labor Day holiday, Mashable has compiled a list of 50+ sites to help you do everything from ordering groceries to making a reservation at a restaurant. Take note, college freshmen!

Online Grocery Ordering

Albertsons.com - The online store of the well known grocery chain.

Amazon Grocery - Order non-perishable foods from the biggest online retailer, receive bigger discounts for subscriptions to select products.

FreshDriect.com - Place your grocery orders on the web and get next-day delivery.

NetGrocer.com - Order your groceries and have them delivered by Fed Ex. Frozen deliveries available in some locations.

Peapod.com - Online grocery ordering with home delivery the next day. Lots of weekly specials.

Online Menu & Ordering Services

Delivery.com - Order in from your favorite eateries, even save favorite menus for quicker ordering.

DiningIn.com - Online ordering from numerous restaurants in the Boston, Chicago, Dallas, and Philadelphia areas.

GetQuik.com - Large selection of restaurants in California to choose from and order online.

GopherNow.com - Look up what is open in your area at any time, see if they're delivering look up their menus and give them a call.

GrabTakeout.com - A restaurant search engine that lets you look eateries up, menus, takeout, delivery, coupons and restaurant information.

Menuism.com - Menus and user reviews for restaurants all over the USA. Rate, review and discuss.

Menutopia.com - Thousands of up-to-date menus from restaurants from across the the country.

MenuTree.net - Search for take-away menus to order from, registered users can add new menus.

Recipes

101Cookbooks.com - A constantly updated archive of recipes. Look them up by food style, search, or discuss in the forums.

AllRecipes.com - Over 40,000 recipes all created and tested by home chefs.

BakeSpace.com - Social networking for trading recipes.

Build A Better Burger - Over 5,000 burger combinations, start with what type of meat you want and build from there.

CDKitchen.com - Recipes by and for home cooks. Recipes are submitted by chefs and home cooks.

Chef2Chef.net - Recipes, instructions for beginning cooks and more.

CookThink.com - Enter the ingredients you ar craving and receive a recipe in return.

DinnersInAFlash.com - Recipes as well as guides on how to organize a dinner, to do lists and grocery lists.

FoodieView.com - Over 1 million searchable recipes.

FoodNetowrk.com - The website of the big cable network has tons of recipes and instructional articles for you.

GroupRecipes.com - Recipes and social networking rolled into one. Also has a Firefox plugin.

iFoods.tv - Written out recipes accompanied by instructional videos.

MealsMatter.org - A site filled with quick and healthy meal recipes.

MyRecipe.com - Share and discover food recipes, cooking tips and everything about cooking.

Nibblous.com - Upload and share recipes with a growing community.

PimpThatSnack.com - Got an odd combination of leftover foods? Pimp That Snack may have a recipe for you, or make your own.

RecipeMatcher.com - Enter the ingredients in your pantry or bar, get shown results of what you can make.

RecipeThing.com - Store recipe's, share them, helps auto-generate grocery lists.

Recipezaar.com - Find, share and create recipe's and menu's with people around the world.

Rouxbe.com - Not only does it have recipes, but it walks you through each one in a step-by-step manner to help you learn how to cook.

Snacksby.com - Enter the foods you have on hand, and not only see what you can make, but if it is low fat or vegetarian.

Tastefora.com - Share and search recipes, look them up also by meal or category.

TasteTV.com - Recipes and instructional videos by top chefs.

WeGottaEat.com - Upload your recipes, share them with friends, make grocery lists.

Reviews & Reservation Sites

BooRah.com - Reviews for 75,000 restaurants in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, browse by location and cuisine.

Chowhound.com - Recipes, cooking techniques, message boards and news.

Dinefly.com - Read & write reviews or restaurants, make reservations, look over menus and pick price ranges.

Dishola.com - Reviews of specific dishes from various eating spots, each with a photo of the dish.

Foodio54.com - Over half-a-million eating establishments reviewed and sorted by style and location.

FriendsEAT.com - A social network for food enthusiasts to share recipes, reviews and tips on cooking.

OpenTable.com - Make reservations at over 7,000 restaurants the world over.

TableXchange.com - Ever scored a reservation at a restaurant and then couldn't make it? Why not sell it in real-time to another waiting soul?

UrbanSpoon.com - Reviews for restaurants in 14 cities.

Yelp.com - Get suggestions from locals of what restaurants in the area are the best for all price ranges.

Zagat.com - One of the oldest restaurant review guides is online and you can look up everything from the greasy spoon down the street to the five-star dining experience across town.

Wine & Spirits

CocktailBuilder - Type up what you have on hand, receive drink mixtures you can make.

ExtraTasty.com - Search for drink recipes and tag them to share with friends.

NoseWine.com - Share notes and thoughts on various wines, read others, expand your knowledge.

Snooth.com - Search their database, read reviews & ratings, receive personalized recommendations.

VinoMatch.com - Using a database of wines from all over the world, find the perfect wine for your tastes.

WineLog.net - Rate wines, write and share comments with others.

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