www.menupages.com

Set your choices with menupages.com

From stocks to steaks, that would be the best way to introduce the founder of this website, Greg Barton who was a computer techie in Wall Street before venturing into the aromatic field of menus!

Way back in 1997, when he found that the outdated menus available at that time did not complement the cuisine served in the countless classic restaurants all around Manhattan, he decided to compile one by himself. Finally in 2002, he could bring menus to the masses through menupages that snugly fit into web or the printed format.

Interestingly, you are likely to mistake this website for everything else but not a menu website for which it actually stands, as there is no suggestive mouthwatering cuisine or hotels to dot its pages! The blue and white homepage with the city skyline looks dreary for a menu site, nonetheless it qualifies fully as being a comprehensive guide for gourmets. Advertisements and sponsorships are its main sources of revenue.

The search bar allows the diners to nose out the restaurant of their choice in a jiffy! You can also refine your search by your favorite dish or the preferred location. While the advanced search allows you to define multiple criteria including area, neighborhood, zip code, cuisine, street and cross street.

The home page has an alphabetical listing of all Manhattan New York hotels by cuisine such as Chinese, Afghan, Spanish etc apart from neighborhood such as West, Lower East, Chinatown etc. There are open reviews on restaurants and many other useful facts like restaurants that are open 24 hours or with food delivery options. You can also use the map for seamlessly selecting the restaurants. If by any chance you do not see your favored restaurant menu in these pages, you can post a request and you are sure to get it soon!

Registration is free and easy and the members have various benefits. Members can save their favorite menus in the My MenuPages and the monthly newsletter would put you on top of the hottest menus and new services.

You also have the option to change the city to track restaurants in other cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Boston and many, many more!

You can also glance through the video profiles of some of the hot restaurants in town, produced by diners like you, which is also featured on WNBC Channel 4, every week. So try your luck and if selected your video would be displayed on TV and a celebrity status awaits you!

Usha Hari

Hi-Tech Editorial Division