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Every once in a long while, our work at iPhone and iPod web site iLounge overlaps with our coverage at Buffalo Chow, and this is a prime example: an article discussing 14 different food and drink applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. If you haven't heard of applications - "apps" - they're the little programs you can download free or inexpensively to get access to everything from wine pairing advice to recipes to photos of sushi and dim sum. We've rounded up a bunch of different options in the full article, including:
* BigOven: A massive 160,000 recipe database, including pictures, with a totally crazy number of different recipe options for even simple foods. (See our screenshot for chocolate chip cookies.)
* Chinese Food Menu: A pictoral guide to authentic Chinese foods, including ones you probably have never seen before.
* Don't Dial: An app to help keep you from drunk dialing certain people. Complete with a lock and password system.
* Entaste Food & Wine Pairing: A simple, icon-based food and wine pairing guide.
* Free Foodle: A free app to help you create shopping lists easily, with the most common types of foods already built in to help minimize your typing.
* Good Food For You: A list of the healthy food choices at otherwise unhealthy fast food restaurants, as well as other chains.
* Locavore: A guide to local fresh foods that are in season, as well as where to buy them, including a list of farmers' markets.
* OpenTable: Make reservations directly from your iPhone or iPod touch for a number of different restaurants. Western New York has only a handful of participants at present, but it's very convenient for those locations.
* SushiTime: A nearly complete guide to different types of sushi, including photographs and Japanese names, plus other related Japanese appetizers, beverages, and entrees.
* UrbanSpoon: A national restaurant database with votes and linked reviews - still our favorite.
* WineSteward: Another and better wine pairing tool, this one with a great interface and more specific recommendations of wines and foods.
* Yelp: Another national restaurant database with votes and linked reviews, providing a better online user review interface but less direct-from-iPhone posting capability, and linked to accusations of pulling negative reviews for cash.
* Yum Cha: A Chinese dim sum database to help you order or understand the contents of a huge number of common and uncommon types of snacks.
* Zagat '09: Supposedly provides access to the massive Zagat restaurant review database, but disappointingly requires an active Internet connection, and has almost no coverage for Western New York. One of a number of expensive "book" like guides that offers very limited value under certain circumstances.
See the full article here on iLounge.com; other iLounge articles that might be handy for iPhone-using Buffalo Chow readers include: tip calculators and cocktail recipe apps. We plan to add additional worthwhile apps to the list over time, and welcome your recommendations!
