Hey New York, you love food? How could you not? We certainly do.
We also love apps that allow us to indulge in delicious food more effortlessly. Apps that'll send a pizza to our door in three clicks, for instance, or an app filled with videos of top-notch chefs, explaining to us how to sautée our chicken.
The following apps will enhance your already incredible relationship with food in New York City. Some will amplify your love for liquor, others will bring you real reviews of restaurants from knowledgable, funny reviewers.
All we really want is for you to have the best possible food experience in this city. We want you to take as much advantage of your smart phone as physically possible. We want you to be as spoiled as we are.
So read on to discover 7 excellent food apps, and then chow down or drink up. Bon appétit!
1. Reserve
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Reserve is about to become your best friend when it comes to dining out. Who needs to be digging around in your wallet for your credit card, or doing the math for splitting checks?
With Reserve, you don't have to do any of that. It'll pay automatically for you, split checks, and help you discover NYC's best restaurants.
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It also works directly with restaurants to reserve a table for you. If the restaurant you want isn't available, restaurants will send back alternatives like other times or bar seats at the chef's counter.
Ever wished you could pay for your meal even if you forgot your wallet at home? With Reserve, you can.
2. MiniBar
minibardelivery Here’s to the first day of fall not feeling like fall at all. #cheers #beers #autumn #cocktails #nyc #rooftop
In New York we can get anything from eggs to batteries delivered to our apartments. Alcohol is no exception.
MiniBar fulfills an essential need: the ability to keep a party popping when all the alcohol runs out. Or, equally necessary, the ability to get a party started without having to ever leave your apartment.
On the MiniBar app you can discover the best selection of wine, liquor, and beer from local stores. You can order your favorite alcohol with a few clicks, and be sipping in 30-60 minutes. Sounds like a complete blast to us.
3. Push for Pizza
pushforpizza Pizza for everyone! 🍕🍕🍕 Head over to PUSHFORPIZZATOUR.COM for full photo recaps and check out our new commercial as well!
Have we mentioned that we're obsessed with pizza?
Well, we are. We talk about it a lot. Which makes us so much more stoked about the existence of Push for Pizza than we could ever explain.
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With Push for Pizza, you get pizza to your door with three steps. The first: you build your pizza. The second: you push their "magical pizza button." The third: pizza comes to your door and you chow the eff down.
You no longer need to struggle through a sea of pizza options on Seamless. Push for Pizza chooses the pizzeria for you.
4. Salted
besalted #Boston, you've treated us well. For our final shoot, we're filming at @jmcurleybar and learning how to make lots of delicious things, like these perfectly petit croque monsoir sandwiches with ham, Gruyere, brioche, benchamel, and quail eggs! #besalted #croquemonsieur #ham #gruyere #brioche #bechamel #quaileggs #yolk #yolkporn #frenchfood #foodie #foodblogger #foodlover #foodpics #foodpix #foodporn #foodshare #foodoftheday #foodgasm #foodforfoodies #cooking #homecooking #homechef #truecooks #instafood #goodeats #foodstagram #feedfeed #foodgawker
Do you yearn for the day when you'll be self-sufficient enough to whip up award-winning dishes for dinner in your very own kitchen? Are all your attempts at cooking pretty much just sad shots in the dark, where you end up eating bland and slightly burnt grilled chicken?
Yeah, we feel you. We think you should download Salted. Salted is like Netflix for learning to cook.
With Salted, you'll get to watch top tier cooking education videos from master chefs at affordable prices. So you, too, will be able to prepare the perfect steak or a corn tortilla masa at home in your own kitchen.
Did someone say mad dateable?
,5. The Infatuation
betterbeingnyc Light as a cloud #zuchinni stuffed squash blossoms w / fresh corn & grilled zuc #dinnerspecial #vegetablelove #glutenfree #heaven
The Infatuation has it right, we are infatuated with food.
This app is for restaurant reviews. Reviews by the people and for the people. Its founders' goal is to create trustworthy, credible, sometimes even funny restaurant reviews that cater to the average diner.
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Next time you're looking for a spot to bring your in-town Uncle or your high maintenance date, check out The Infatuation. They'll give you the real scoop on what's going down with restaurants.
It's a well known and trusted resource in NYC, and publishes reviews by people who are passionate about restaurants, knowledgable, and who write in an entertaining voice.
6. NYT Cooking
mrfrankstagram 🍅🍅🍅🍝 We ended up making Lasagna that would knock your socks off 💥 a hybrid of recipes and some improvising. Layers of noodles, ricotta, eggplant, zucchini, basil, parmesean, a sausage marinara that can kill it's so good. Topped it off with Parmesan and mozzarella and served over some of that marinara sauce without meat.
New Yorkers love doing things ourselves. We love overcoming obstacles, feeling accomplished, and doing so in the best possible way. We also love the New York Times.
Well, the New York Times' app NYT Cooking combines all those things we love into one simple interface on our cell phone screens.
They'll solve your problem of not knowing what to cook for dinner by providing you with a recipe of the day. They'll allow you to save websites from across the web in your NYT Cooking Recipe Box, so you'll never lose that chicken parmesan recipe that makes you swoon.
You'll also get to save, browse and cook the very best recipes on the web, all in one place. For the New Yorker yearning to improve her cooking skills, this app is perfect.
7. BonAppetour
bonappetour_official Loved the winding canals and streets of Venice, one of the most unique cities in the world. And not forgetting the chiatti and proseco to work up that appetite in the evening! #aperitif #Venice #canals #holiday #travelgram #travel #travelinspiration #igtravel #igitaly #igitalia #wanderlust #instagood #instatravel #bonappetour #dinewithlocals #dinnerparty #proseco
New Yorkers love traveling. You can catch us riding back and forth on that Air Train to and from JFK on the regular.
Well, New Yorkers, ever been in a new country or city and wanted an authentic dining experience? Like the kind where you actually get to enter the homes of locals and share a meal with them?
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With BonAppetour, you'll get to connect with hosts, confirm dates, and arrange for dining preferences with locals. You'll also be able to make a payment through the app, and get set up with unique home restaurants. Like, on a rooftop in Rome or someone's dining room in Barcelona, for instance.
BonAppetour lets us indulge in authentic, home-cooked food, make friends, and have a blast.
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