Food

BEAUTIFUL FOOD DISCOVERY APPS

If you’re in the mood to discover food, we’ve got some beautiful apps for you! From recipes to restaurants, the new apps make it easy to broaden your horizons. They’ll help you get to new places and bring deliciousness to your door. They’ll make your mouth water in a snap.

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How do you make dinner out of some pine branches, some mussels, and some vinegar? And why would you want to? Find out with Gojee, the new recipe app the curates exceptional recipes from top chefs, food bloggers and writers.

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Making food is a creative outlet for me, and I often surf to find inspiration. It’s not so easy to discover recipes and ideas that are special and wonderful. I’ve got a handful of favorite sites that I know and love, but finding new ones is a chore. Now, Gojee does it for me.

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And, Gojee serves it all up with big gorgeous sexy photos that will tempt you silly. Dive in, check out the ingredients list, and if you want to go all the way, Gojee whisks you away to the original source in a flash, where you can find the whole recipe, connect with the chef who created it, and get closer to creating an amazing meal.

Gojee also curates the best in home decor and fashion. Altogether, that’s why it calls itself the "Home of Great Taste."

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Like opening a Pandora’s recipe box, you’ll find Yummly, a new recipe discovery app, is a seemingly never-ending stream. With over one million recipes, with accompanying correlated shopping lists, it’s a bottomless cache of ideas.

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Good thing Yummly has a great search function and a robust categorization feature, so you can easily filter down to a select the recipes that fit whatever mood, health issue, nutritional concern, or set of ingredients you typed into the search field. Good thing it also records your preferences.

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Founder and CEO, Dave Feller got the idea for Yummly when he realized, “I couldn’t find a way to search for recipes and exclude anything with mustard.” For me, I don’t want to see any recipes with cilantro. Good thing Yummly has us both covered.

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Chefs Feed is an app that can connect you with the most beautiful food happening in the world right now, by connecting you with chefs who are in a position to know. While their site isn’t competing for a beauty prize visually, it totally scores when it comes to hitting the sweet spot site for food discovery features.

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Chefs Feed is all about the chef-to-user connection. And it is creating 35,000 new ones each day. Yup! That’s how many people are wanting to know what Mario Batali snacks on or how Thomas Keller scrambles eggs or who Alice Waters turns to for olivada pizza. And, Chefs Feed has just gone international, so it’s a great travel app too.

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If you’ve ever been steered wrong by Zagat, Yelp, or TripAdvisor, and who hasn’t, Chefs Feed will likely make you happier. You can follow your favorite chefs and they can lead you to culinary bliss. You can even plan and track culinary adventures with your friends.

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Ness is like a Pandora Radio DJ of food, spinning out a mix of restaurants based on what it “thinks” you like. You respond, and it gets smarter each time, anticipating your requests.

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But Ness is more than just a recommendation engine. It’s your complete beautiful restaurant experience. With just a swipe, you can get directions and view maps, book reservations via Open Table, and review menus.

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You can see average ratings from other Ness users, connect with Facebook or foursquare to see where your friends have been, look at restaurant photos via Instagr.am, and more.

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You will discover restaurants you'll love as Ness powers through a base of over 600,000 US restaurants. Ness was an Apple "App Store Best of 2012" and is an Editor's Choice in 2013.

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