MenuPix: A website that provides restaurant menus

by beatlesan on 2006-06-07 23:23:50

MenuPix is quite special—it's a website that provides menus from various restaurants. MenuPix categorizes restaurants by city area, urban district, and cuisine type, offering rich information for each restaurant, including address, phone, fax, cuisine type, district, website, business hours, and whether they offer delivery (not all restaurants have complete information). The sidebar also displays the restaurant's exact location on a map using Yahoo! Maps. What makes MenuPix particularly unique and its selling point is that it provides restaurant menus in the form of actual images. I looked at several Chinese restaurants, and there were more lightweight options like Hong Kong-style tea restaurants, though there were also some high-end ones. What impressed me was that even though the menus of the former were simple, they looked comfortable, and many had designed their own logos—perhaps they are decades-old establishments. In addition to this, on MenuPix, you can rate and review restaurants. There are four rating categories: Food, Service, Value, Atmosphere, indicated on a ten-point scale. If you like a particular restaurant, you can even add it to your myMenuPix collection.