(Updated October 2006)
| Restaurants & Institutions |
| http://www.rimag.com |
| Content: | 24 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 93 |
| Site Byte: | Jam packed with well written, indepth articles and special reports. (Free registration required for articles) |
| Restaurant Doctor (The) |
| http://www.restaurantdoctor.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 24 |
| Total Score: | 92 |
| Site Byte: | Lots of great information for hospitality professionals. In addition, there are also items for sale to help run your restaurant (books, tapes, etc.) |
| Star Chefs |
| http://www.starchefs.com |
| Content: | 24 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 92 |
| Site Byte: | Terrific chef features, articles, recipes, news, jobs, events, and more. |
| Vino! |
| http://www.vino.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 24 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 92 |
| Site Byte: | Wine country info, winery guides, wine reviews and news. |
| Wine Enthusiast |
| http://www.wineenthusiast.com/mag |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 92 |
| Site Byte: | Great feature stories. Also e-commerce sister site with wine products at www.wineenthusiast.com. |
| A World of Tea |
| http://www.stashtea.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | A heaping stack of useful and entertaining information about tea. In addition, an e-commerce companion store has tea related products to choose from. |
| BostonChefs.com |
| http://www.bostonchefs.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 24 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | Great chef and restaurant profiles for some of Boston's best restaurants. Also has local area news and job postings. Outstanding photography. |
| Epicurus Online |
| http://www.epicurus.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | Articles, recipes, travel features, glossaries. Lots of great content. |
| Food Network (The) |
| http://www.foodtv.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 24 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | As one might expect, this on-line companion to television's Food Network is loaded with content. You just might find yourself poking around for hours. |
| Foodservice.com |
| http://www.foodservice.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | Best feature of the site is their Forums area, which contains some lively discussion on industry topics. |
| On the Rail |
| http://www.ontherail.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | Interesting articles, stark design -- from a couple of restaurant insiders. |
| WineLoversPage.com |
| http://www.wineloverspage.com |
| Content: | 24 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 91 |
| Site Byte: | A wine website with personality, which there just isn't enough of out there. And tons of great content to boot. |
| Adams Beverage Group |
| http://www.beveragenet.net |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | Home of three industry publications (Cheers, Beverage Dynamics, Stateways). Be sure to visit the archive for access to articles from past issues. A must visit to keep up to date with food & beverage trends. |
| Ale Street News |
| http://www.alestreetnews.com/ |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | Great brew related coverage. New feature articles as well as a large article archive, event info, brew pub guide, and more. |
| All About Beer |
| http://www.allaboutbeer.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | Great Content -- Beer News, Beer Stories, Beer Talk, Beer Links and for when you're done reading about beer, a very useful Brewpub finder. |
| Nation's Restaurant News |
| http://www.nrn.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | This on-line companion to the nation's largest foodservice publication is filled with a variety of useful content for foodservice professionals. (free registration required for articles) |
| Quantified Marketing Group's Learning Center |
| http://www.quantifiedmarketing.com/learning_center.php |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 23 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | A nice collection of articles on restaurant marketing, PR, design and operations. Also a restaurant marketing glossary and collection of industry links. |
| Restaurant Edge |
| http://www.restaurantedge.com |
| Content: | 24 | Navigation: | 21 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | Run by an restaurant industry insider this site digs deep with content across almost every spectrum. Make sure you go to the "Resources" section where on the right side of the page you'll find category & article links. |
| Sally's Place |
| http://www.sallys-place.com |
| Content: | 24 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 21 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | You'll love this grassroots destination site. Tons and tons of great articles & more. |
| Webtender |
| http://www.webtender.com |
| Content: | 24 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 21 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | A plethora of information related to tending bar. Thousands of drink recipes - easily searchable and logically organized. Bartender's handbook with many helpful tips. Site also has an extensive link section. Two word wrap up - "Bartending Nirvana!" |
| Wine & Dine E-zine |
| http://www.winedine.co.uk |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 90 |
| Site Byte: | UK based site. Extensive profiles and reviews of London and UK restaurants. Wine coverage offers equal depth. |
| Into Wine |
| http://www.intowine.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 23 |
| Total Score: | 89 |
| Site Byte: | A great place to learn more about wine. |
| Restaurant Business |
| http://www.restaurantbiz.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 23 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 89 |
| Site Byte: | Industry articles and news coverage. |
| BevNetwork |
| http://www.bevaccess.com |
| Content: | 23 | Navigation: | 21 |
| Design: | 22 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 88 |
| Site Byte: | Business website for the beverage alcohol business. |
| Escoffier On Line |
| http://www.escoffier.com |
| Content: | 22 | Navigation: | 22 |
| Design: | 21 | Overall Experience: | 22 |
| Total Score: | 87 |
| Site Byte: | Good resource for articles, chef jobs and links -- in particular, be sure to check out the "EOL Web Directory". |