Restaurant database with our own votes and reviews? Plus, a recommendation

[Guest guest]

Hi all,

 

I find myself often searching through the archives for a

recommendation I vaguely remember seeing. There are some sites you

are all familiar with, that list veg*n restaurants, but they are

usually incomplete and leave one in the dark about how good the food

is.

 

This is what I'd like to suggest - creating a sort of open database

that everyone can add to, AND everyone can RATE any restaurant

they've been to. After all - that's a better judge that our own

experience?

 

A basic structure I'd like ot suggest:

 

We'd have 3 groups of restaurants: vegetarian, vegan, and regular

restaurants with a worthwhile vegan menu, where we know the vegan

food is cooked separately from the meat (regular restaurants with

vegetarian options are relatively plentiful so we can skip that one I

think).

 

For each restaurant, we'd list address and phone number, range of

entree prices, and HERE is the great bit - its score on a 5 point

voting system, where EVERY visitor to the site can vote.

 

We can also add a section for more lengthy reviews, for every person

who'd like to write one.

 

I am not a web person, and have no idea how to go about designing

such a page - but maybe one of you likes the idea and would like to

take on this project? (I'd be willing to help whereever I can). Or

maybe generationv.org would like to host this idea? We could then

design it to be within generationv.org

 

 

Finally - my two bits about a place I never see featured here, and I

think is one of the most special places in SF: JUICY LUCY'S. It is in

north beach, a small completely VEGAN place on columbus, where

EVERYTHING is ORGANIC, they make the BEST fresh juices EVER on the

spot, and whatever you order food wise - they make it ON THE SPOT

from raw ingredients as you watch - again, ALL organic and super

fresh. Nothing there is over $10, there is a large selection of

foods, great salads, and best of all - very relaxing, easy going

atmosphere. They are open 7 to 7, as far as I know, every day. Just

don't go there when you're rushed for a quick lunch. Since everyting

is made from scratch once you order it, you cannot expect it to be

ready in 5 minutes. I usually spend about 30-45 minutes there are

least, depending on what I ordered. VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :-)

 

 

Cheers,

 

Tal