Foodspotting – As opposed to the standard research-and-read restaurant reviews, Foodspotting offers an out of the box and in-your-plate take on food recommendations. According to their About page, “Foodspotting makes finding and sharing food recommendations easier: Instead of reading and writing reviews of restaurants, you can share photos of specific foods you recommend and see what’s good wherever you go.”

Foodspotting offers so much more than just dish recommendations with mouth-watering photos you can almost smell and taste; make use of the site’s Guides section where you will find recommendations made by renowned chefs such as Anthony Bourdain, Marcus Samuelsson, and Zagat restaurant recommendations, just to name a few. Foodspotting also has a feed page (People section) where users publish short Twitter-like messages for the rest of the community to explore. See the video below to learn more about the Foodspotting iPhone app.