How to Locate the Best Restaurants in the New Town You’ve Moved To
After your move to a new town, there are several things that you will need to do to help you settle in and possibly make new friends in your new neighborhood. One of such activities is going to dine at local restaurants. Chances are high that it will take you a while to set up your kitchen after your move. This will cause you to have to buy food until you can set up your kitchen. When buying food, instead of ordering in, you should try going out to restaurants in your new town. This will provide an avenue for you to know more about your new town and get familiar with the town. It is also possible that you meet new people. Even when it is not necessary to eat out, you might just want to relax and have a nice meal in a restaurant.
Since it is a new town, you will need to take time and caution to pick a good restaurant.
Different attributes make a good restaurant. The first is excellent service – nobody wants to eat at a restaurant with poor service. Second, hygiene – a good restaurant should be very hygienic as food is something that goes into the body. Third, value for your money – the last thing you want is an overpriced restaurant with low-quality food. Fourth, ambiance – a restaurant can have food that is not too great but still have people trooping in because it has a great ambiance. All these and more are factors to be considered when picking restaurants in a new town.
Finding a restaurant is easy. However, finding the best restaurant is where the work is. You must be willing to investigate a little to get the best. The becomes even more necessary if you are a very picker eater. We have put together a guide to help you locate and choose the best restaurants in your new town. With all these tips, you should not go wrong when choosing a good restaurant.
- Ask around the neighborhood
One good way to locate a good restaurant is reviews of people in the neighborhood. This can even be one of the things you bring up in the conversation when you go over to introduce yourself to your neighbors. You can also ask people at stores or yard parties how long they have lived in the neighborhood and then proceed to ask them about the restaurants in the neighborhood.
- Online
In this era, the majority of restaurants have websites. This makes your investigation easier. Check online for the restaurants in the new town and go to their website to see their reviews posted by previous customers. This also allows you to check through the menu to know if they serve meals you like.
- Social media
Social media is a great way to different get opinions on restaurants. Many towns have social media groups. You could join the group of your new town and drop the question on the group. A lot of people will weigh in opinions thus giving you different points of view. This will help you evaluate and choose. There might even be different options for you to choose from.
Alternatively, restaurants have business pages on different social media platforms. You could check them out and go through comments of customers and past visitors.
- Eating guides
Most cities produce eating guides. Eating guidebooks are books detailing the restaurants and meals served and sometimes rating them. These guidebooks are updated from time to time by residents of the cities this will provide a good way to identify the best restaurants as residents are in the best place to do that.
- Town’s website
It is very common for towns to have websites for the benefit of their residents. Visiting the town’s website is a great and easy way to find good restaurants. For most websites, there will be a section detailing recreation centers and restaurants in the town. It is also possible for the town’s website to have the menu of restaurants and the link to the different restaurant’s websites.
- Local newspapers
Local newspapers are also a great way to find good restaurants. There could be ads for different restaurants in the town. It is also possible that there are articles or columns on food and restaurants in the town. These columns can help guide you in choosing a good restaurant.
- Yelp
Yelp is a site that is dedicated to reviews on local businesses for specific locations. These reviews are crowd-sourced. This means that the reviews are given by locals or people who have at least visited the location. People who give reviews can also give ratings on the website. All you need to do is sign up and search for restaurants by city. Type in the name of your new town and reviews will come up. Yelp also has discussion forums and blogs so go through them when making your decision.
- Urbanspoon
Urbanspoon has an app and a website that offers a restaurant search utility. Urbanspoon’s search allows you to filter based on location. This makes it easy for you to find restaurants in your new town. It also allows for filters based on food and prices. It also has reviews based on the different restaurants and the different menu. Thus, you can go to Urbanspoon’s website or download their app and read reviews on the restaurants in your new town.
- Zagat
Zagat is a survey platform. It provides ratings on a five-point scale for different areas of a restaurant such as food, service, ambiance, etc. you can visit their website for reviews on restaurants in your new town.
- Check out restaurants
You can decide to go the old fashion way and go round town in your leisure time to check out restaurants. Look out for restaurants that are filled with people. This is sometimes a sign that the food is good. There is no way so many people will be in one place for bad food.
