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Massive information: The Eater app simply received lots higher, with a totally new look and expertise. And sure, it’s free to obtain now on the iOS retailer.
Eater maps have at all times been the trusted method to discover nice eating places. Our editors have eaten at hundreds of eating places so that you by no means have a nasty meal. However we’re going past “The place ought to we eat?” Now, you’ll be able to truly be a part of the Eater group. Construct your profile, comply with editors and cooks, create and share lists, see the place editors and cooks are consuming, and ebook your subsequent nice meal, multi function place.
In case you’ve been right here for a while, you might do not forget that we first launched our app in October 2024, to be sure to may entry all of Eater’s suggestions at any time, from wherever. It was no small endeavor to carry a model new product into the world, significantly one which our readers had been requesting for a lot of, a few years.
As we continued to dream up and construct new options, it turned clear that our ambitions for the app outgrew its technological basis, and we wanted to begin over, from scratch. Product supervisor Anique Halliday and her crew of engineers and UX designers, working with our editors eating of their cities each day, rethought each component to make it a lot simpler to search out an ideal restaurant suggestion each single time.
You will have seen a few of this new work throughout our websites, too. Final fall we started publishing Eating Experiences, which observe all of the fantastic locations our editors are eating at in a mobile-friendly format; these now floor within the app in an effort to simply see our must-order dishes and insider ideas.
Final yr, we additionally launched customized lists to the app, the place everybody can save eating places which have caught their eye. Our newest iteration takes it additional, with the power to personalize your feed by following Eater cities, editors, and even some well-known pals of Eater, like cooks Eric Ripert, Mei Lin, José Andrés, Aaron Franklin, and extra. From there, it can save you eating places, share lists, and make reservations.
I’m saving the perfect for final — a model new search expertise. Now, if you recognize the place you’re eating however wish to learn Eater’s take, you’ll be able to simply lookup the restaurant and discover our ideas. And our new conversational search permits you to ask for something from “blissful hour close to Madison Sq. Park” to “date evening with an ideal wine record in Portland,” and surfaces our editors’ professional ideas and proposals. I’ve used this search many instances previously months and it is available in clutch, significantly once I’m touring to a special metropolis.
I hope you’ll give it a take a look at run: Obtain our iOS app, supported by Grubhub, and take a look at my lists that includes the final NYC bakery crawl and kid-friendly locations you’ll truly wish to dine at, and begin planning your subsequent nice meal.
We constructed this app for our most devoted readers, and we wish to hear your ideas on how we are able to make it even higher. Electronic mail me at fromtheeditor@eater.com with any suggestions, or ship me any lists you make. To my fellow Android customers, I see you. We don’t have an Android model simply but, however I promise you’ll be the primary to know as quickly as we do.
