Foursquare helps you find where to eat; Dish.fm helps you find what to eat
Foursquare is good at recommending a place to eat, but once you get there it can be difficult to digest all the tips and find that one dish that you should order. They’re getting better at this, but aren’t quite there. That’s where dish.fm comes in, weeding through the tips on Foursquare and reviews on Yelp to tell you what you should be eating.
Much like Foursquare’s “people talk about” section, Dish.fm uses sentiment analysis to weigh the positive tips versus the negative ones to find the most recommended dishes at a place. Users can also add their own likes and dislikes. It then searches Instagram for images of those dishes to show inside the app.
That’s, unfortunately, where the wheels fall off the wagon. I had to search long and hard to find a restaurant with enough photos to create the above screenshot. The vast majority are simply filled with gray boxes like the one you see for “bruschetta.” For an app that attempts to be photo-driven, it leaves a very empty feeling throughout the app.
For now, Dish.fm supports only on New York and San Francisco. It’s available as an iOS app or a mobile web site. Give it a try and let us know what you think in the comments.
/Via The Next Web
