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Menutopia - 663 Brooklyn Menus Counting — Brooklynian

Menutopia - 663 Brooklyn Menus Counting

menutopia
menutopia
edited November -1 in Park Slope
Hi guys,

I'd like to invite the users of this board to the just-launched, brand new Menutopia.com! http://www.menutopia.com/

What's the idea behind Menutopia?
The basic idea is: we supply the menus, our users supply the opinions - in the form of reviews, lists, tags, etc. There are a lot of great personalization features already built in and many more on the way.

How can I use the site?
Since you're among the first people to hear about Menutopia Brooklyn, what we'd like most is your input! The site was designed to make it easy to find a place to eat, whether you're ordering delivery (try the smart search -- the phone number pops right up!) or dining out, we have over 600 menus just waiting to be used. Ultimately, we want Menutopia to be as useful as possible, so please let us know how we can make the site better.

Other ways of helping out are: writing reviews for restaurants that you feel strongly about (and I've seen some strong opinions on this board!), letting us know if we're missing your favorite restaurants, or telling us if something on the site is confusing.

Please feel free to reply to this thread with any feedback.

Thanks for your help!
Dan
Menutopia.com
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  • sarajean8
    sarajean8
    how it menutopia very different from Menupages.com?
  • menutopia
    menutopia

    Subject: Menutopia v. Menupages

    Fair question. Menutopia was built and designed for users, not advertisers.

    Our smart search is a great example of that! Rather than forcing people to click through 5 pages to view a menu or restaurant info, Menutopia's smart search gives you that info immediately. With the smart search, you're never more than one click away from a restaurant's menu.

    It's also very easy to browse restaurants if you're not sure what you're looking for. For example, click 'Park Slope' from the main Brooklyn page to see all 180 restaurants in the Slope. You can refine those results on the fly by clicking a tag or cuisine type at the right of the page.

    Also, by signing up for a free Menutopia account (it only takes seconds) you can really personalize the site. You can invite friends and keep track of their reviews and lists, keep track of your own reviews and lists, save favorites, view your recently view restaurants, and a lot more!

    More info here: http://www.menutopia.com/learnmore/default.html

    Dan
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    The site is pretty good so far, with 2 notable deficits:
    1) it's kind of slow
    2) you list many Prospect Heights restaurants on Flatbush as being in Park Slope, including:
    El Gran Castillo De Jagua (which is especially sacriligious)
    Joy
    Parkside Diner
    JRG Fashion Cafe
    Franny's
    Sushi Tatsu
    Wing Wagon
    Yummy Taco
  • captain salty
    captain salty
    as far as i know, Franny's touts themselves as a park slope restaurant.
  • alafairnadia
    alafairnadia
    Captain Salty wrote: as far as i know, Franny's touts themselves as a park slope restaurant.
    they price themselves that way, too. doesn't make it so. I weep for them. really, I do. :cry::cry::cry::cry:
  • carnivore
    carnivore
    Captain Salty wrote: as far as i know, Franny's touts themselves as a park slope restaurant.
    For the site to be most useful, it should list restaurants where they ARE, not where they want to be.
  • captain salty
    captain salty
    oh, i don't disagree.
  • menutopia
    menutopia

    Subject: Neighorhood boundaries

    Thanks for the note Carnivore.

    I actually got advice on the neighborhood boundaries of PH from this very board, but it looks like we didn't include Flatbush Ave. We made the fix and those restaurants are all now showing up in Prospect Heights.

    Thanks again!

    Dan
  • seussan
    seussan
    A great feature (though I'm sure it's not easy) would be to type in you address and to have a list of restaurants returned that are nearby. I don't think MenuPages does that.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: that's my one problem with this board

    everyone's so concerned with where everything is....I've lived my whole life in brooklyn and have never heard half as many concerns about where restaurants are, or what block is in which neighborhood, etc....

    flatbush avenue counts as park slope....jesus. and for that matter so does 4th avenue.
  • pitu
    pitu

    Subject: Re: that's my one problem with this board

    park slope, prospect heig wrote: flatbush avenue counts as park slope....jesus. and for that matter so does 4th avenue.
    no baby, both those streets are borders
    one side is one nabe, one side is the other
    'cause you gotta draw the line somewhere
  • menutopia
    menutopia

    Subject: cripes

    I didn't mean to start a neighborhood zoning war here!
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: How often are menus updated?

    I find that with many sites the fact that the menus are always out of date defeats the purpose. How often do you guys plan on making sure the menus are updated?
  • menutopia
    menutopia

    Subject: Power to the people!

    We're continually updating menus. Since we're brand new, we don't have a large member-base yet, but we hope once there's an entire community involved, it will be self-policing. Members will let us know when something needs updating and we'll update it.

    Might sound a bit idealistic, but hey, we're shooting for a Menu - UTOPIA here!

    And we're a small team, but we're very responsive to requests for updates.

    Dan
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    Menupages only recently started adding Brooklyn menus though. Last year I thought about starting a local menu site, but got too busy to ever take the project on. So this is pretty cool. I didn't expect the site to be non-Brooklyn centric.. like i expected it to be a local project. No matter.. Just happy to read the info.

    I would say, though, that anything on Columbia St is NOT Cobble Hill, but Columbia Waterfront District OR North Red Hook or even Red Hook. It's a completely different vibe on this side of the expressway, and there's definitely enough restaurants to warrent it's own section. I mean, it's at least a 1/2 mile from Court St (cobble hill and carroll gardens). I'd like to be able to search for these restaurants in a separate section.

    Thanks for posting this though! I'm psyched to have so many more options for the area now!
  • raw
    raw
    sarajean8 wrote: how it menutopia very different from Menupages.com?
    Well for one thing, when you click on "Brooklyn" on menupages.com you are immediately directed to Brooklyn's tasty offerings. When you do the same on menutopia, you are immediately directed to the text below.

    System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: '7' Key being added: '7' atystem.Collections.Hashtable.Insert(Object key, Object nvalue, Boolean add) at System.Collections.Hashtable.Add(Object key, Object value)
    at Seamlessweb.JustMenus.Web.Controller.GetMarket.SecurePerform() in c:dataworkseamlesswebJustMenus-branchsrcWebControllerGetMarket.cs:line 33
  • pitu
    pitu
    cheflaura wrote: I would say, though, that anything on Columbia St is NOT Cobble Hill, but Columbia Waterfront District OR North Red Hook or even Red Hook. It's a completely different vibe on this side of the expressway, and there's definitely enough restaurants to warrent it's own section. I mean, it's at least a 1/2 mile from Court St (cobble hill and carroll gardens). I'd like to be able to search for these restaurants in a separate section.

    Thanks for posting this though! I'm psyched to have so many more options for the area now!
    good point. Isn't the hotness of Columbia St generally called Red Hook by civilians?
    menutopia, look at all this great troubleshooting we're doing for you!
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: Slow

    Is there a way to make it faster?
  • menutopia
    menutopia

    Subject: menutopia

    Thanks for the great neighborhood clarification, cheflaura -- we'll fix that.

    As for the errors and the slowness, the developers are currently working on fixing this. Annoying, I know...but remember we're brand new and your among the first public users!

    Thanks for taking the time to check it out,
    Dan
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: Re: cripes

    menutopia wrote: I didn't mean to start a neighborhood zoning war here!
    Don't worry Menutopia. What you will find is that many people from Prospect Heights are very, very sensitive about the neighborhood they live in. Most people don't care. And Franny's is in Park Slope!
  • carnivore
    carnivore

    Subject: Re: cripes

    Anonymous wrote: And Franny's is in Park Slope!
    Let me make it real simple-like for ya...
    image
  • shishkab
    shishkab
    wanted to check out your site, but i guess i am not patient enough and gave up waiting for the site to load. WAAAAYYY too slow. but please let us know when you folks get that fixed and i'd be happy to try again...
  • raw
    raw

    Subject: Re: cripes

    Carnivore wrote: [quote=Anonymous]And Franny's is in Park Slope!
    Let me make it real simple-like for ya...
    image

    That is hysterical. Awesome image.
  • carnivore
    carnivore

    Subject: Re: cripes

    raw wrote: That is hysterical. Awesome image.
    I made it myself! :D

    I might print it out and hang it on my refrigerator! :lol:
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: carne asada

    when you click off one of the cuisine choices...let's say mexican =P~ .. then click on the restaurant it works fine. but when i use my back arrow, mexican =P~ is still checked off but it's not filtered at all. :shock:

    using...firefox 2.0 on a mac
  • doctorj
    doctorj

    Subject: Re: cripes

    Carnivore wrote: [quote=raw]That is hysterical. Awesome image.
    I made it myself! :D

    I might print it out and hang it on my refrigerator! :lol:

    Was this hand-drawn-and-scanned, or do you have some kind of nifty tablet and stylus setup?
  • carnivore
    carnivore

    Subject: Re: cripes

    doctorj wrote: Was this hand-drawn-and-scanned, or do you have some kind of nifty tablet and stylus setup?
    Neither. I did it with the mouse (actually, it was the touchpad, the mouse equivalent on my laptop).
  • doctorj
    doctorj

    Subject: Re: cripes

    Carnivore wrote: [quote=doctorj]Was this hand-drawn-and-scanned, or do you have some kind of nifty tablet and stylus setup?
    Neither. I did it with the mouse (actually, it was the touchpad, the mouse equivalent on my laptop).

    Nice. You have much better fine motor control than I do.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: it's not a distinctive line....

    "flatbush avenue counts as park slope....jesus. and for that matter so does 4th avenue."

    it's more of a slippery slope issue....restaurants that are on flatbush are in both neighborhood.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: this menu should include....

    a restaurant that is on the border street as in both neighborhoods...if someone is coming from out of the area and has heard about a restaurant, such as Franny's that is is 'Park Slope', they might not have the wherewithall to know that the restaurant is really in 'Prospect Heights'

    don't call me baby.
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