Zomato restaurant guide currently serves Ten major cities in India – Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur & Chandigarh. Zomato app lets you search menus across 17000 restaurants in India. This app lets you check ratings, reviews and discounts of all restaurants in your city and available for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android smartphones. Zomato on your Android is also location aware and more..

 

Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep… when I was a kid, every morning I would hear this beeps of the alarm clock, it was so annoying me. I used to say – Mom, gimme five more minutes! I don’t wanna go to school today! It’s so early! “Gimme 5″. Later I formed a group of five friends called “Gimme 5 Gang”.

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Recently, one of my friends from the “Gimme 5 Gang” updated his status on facebook – Zomato.com and ME. I asked, what’s this? .. Is Zomato or your GF or something else? Then he posted his comment in reply of this question – it’s restaurant guide. You can search for the best local restaurants and places to eat. It’s the original restaurant guide offering thousands of restaurant listings in your local area. Find the best restaurants in your area.

1. Discover a Random Restaurant by Shaking your Phone Zomato provides a clean and easy interface, allowing you to sign in with your existing email or Facebook or Twitter account. The feature “Shake your phone to get a random restaurant suggestion near you.” is one of good features provided by Zomato. With this feature, you can discover a random restaurant by shaking your phone.

Are you joining Zomato? He said – YES. WOW! it’s great to hear this. So it was obvious – TREAT TO BANTA HAI BUDDY! He has to join Zomato in Bangalore. But most friends of our gang are living in Delhi. We “Gimme 5 Gang” – decided a “hang out” day and spot – it was 5 Sept. He agreed to have a big party in GK2.

I posted a wall “Stay with Gimme 5 Gang, Stay with Fun!” on facebook and the same I posted in our circle on Google+ too and mentioned that – if anyone has any suggestions for good restaurants in GK2, please ping us or leave a message here.

2. Advanced Customizable Browsing It also allows for a highly customizable browse function that lets you filter result by selecting options like Location, Cuisine, Cost of two, Pure veg, Credit Cards, Buffets, Happy Hours, Wiki, Bar present, Live music, Outdoors, etc. This is a feature that is missing in many other food guide applications. And of course there is the option of searching for a restaurant by name OR location OR cuisine OR dish and category – All, Delivery, Dine out and Nightlife.

Before 5 Aug he has to reach Delhi. We were five guys… everyone started wondering a good restaurant in GK or nearby this area. The friend who has to host the party is living in Bangalore. But the party would be organized in Delhi. We all five guys started searching for a good restaurant in GK, Delhi. You know why we chose GK as location for this party – because we used to be hangout here in our college days.

Phew! Foolish thing is – I forgot the name of organization which my friend will be joining shortly. It happens sometimes, when you hear a strange name for the first time. I started googling for “Restaurants in Delhi” .. I clicked through the results pages returned by Google. When I gave a look on the title and description of returned results. I saw one of top ten results with unique title “Zomato” – I liked this name at first and as I clicked on this and saw the site – a word came from my mouth – WOW! – THAT’s what I was looking for:

3. Call a restaurant JUST by CLICKING on the CALL button – very Inventive and Useful feature What is most impressive about Zomato’s smartphone app is the sheer number of restaurants and eateries they have cataloged with great detail, making it easy to find restaurants. You can call a restaurant just by clicking on the call button – very inventive and useful feature on a smartphone. You can also browse through Menu, Ratings and Reviews. What’s more – you can also see the location of the restaurant on Google Map and pictures of the restaurants that will give an idea about the places and restaurants.

When I opened this site it seemed so impressive.. I just said… WOW!. I love food and going in fun parties. I was very excited for this party. I started navigating Zomato.com homepage. At first, I was thinking of whether it’s a restaurant or something else. Then I saw text “EXPLORE restaurants by locality in your city” on top of the front page. I thought.. Zomato might have many branches in different locations as there was mentioned metro and other cities name on top of the site: Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai, Jaipur, Ahmedabad & Chandigarh.

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As I’m from Delhi that’s why I clicked “Delhi NCR” link, a page opened – it was appearing on the page: “Featured User”, “Reviews Events at Restaurants”, “Our Editors”, etc in the middle of the page. I started scrolling down… I found that the site containing web pages like “From Our Blog”, “From Our Newsletter Crunch”, “Hot Restaurants Today”, “Newly Added Menus”.

1. Popular Top 10 Best Restaurants You can add a feature that will include – Popular Top 10 Best Restaurants by city list and the most searched restaurants in every major city in India. So there should be option on your site to select from the Top 10 restaurants from our 5 most searched cities by enter a city of your choice to view their Top 10. Search on any city and see what are the Top 10 Delhi NCR Restaurants, Top 10 Mumbai Restaurants, Top 10 Bangalore Restaurants, Top 10 Kolakta, Top 10 Hyderbad, Top 10 Chennai, and more.

As I kept scrolling down through the page, the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android apps I saw at right and says – Zomato.com provides apps for smartphones. I said to myself – Cool product!… As we know, with the world going more mobile, finding that restaurant.. I was happy to see that Zomato.com is smartphone friendly. Well…at first, what came in my mind, it would be a restaurant but later I realized that it’s not a restaurant listing site only but more than that.

For long time I was searching website related to this kind information i am very happy to find it here. As usual, I started playing with this site. As I scrolled down the page. I found that it is mentioned “17,800 listed restaurant”, “1,627 foodies online now”, “1,063,957 foodies served in August”, “8,547,360 foodies served till date”, “Popular on Zomato – Delhi NCR” and more… After giving a look on these pages it has been confirmed that Zomato is a local restaurant finder guide. After navigating to other pages in Zomato.com, I found that it’s a complete Restaurant Guide and currently serves Ten major cities in India – Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Kolkata, Bangalore, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur & Chandigarh. The website currently lists over 17,800 restaurants and featured menus for restaurants listed on the website. As per recent press reports, Zomato claims that it gets more than a million customers on its website.

2. ADD your Restaurant to Dining Let the restaurants owner add the option to add own restaurant on an additional fees, I’m sure a lot of people will be willing to pay the extra. Once it is verified and approved by you, it can be displayed in your restaurant listings.

Zomato has the first local restaurants search iPhone, Android and BlackBerry application in India. Cool features!! After seeing its all features it was confirmed that we don’t need to google every time for good restaurant. I thought, why not first I install the Zomato BlackBerry app on my device – I installed it and started browsing restaurant names and read the reviews of few restaurants wrote by guests, what type, style or cuisine they’re serving, whether they provides live music or not….offer a wide selection of liquors, beers and wines as well as non-alcoholic beverages and punches. And also checked – what kind of other services listed restaurants are providing to its customers. I found listed a good range of restaurants on the site. Once you started using it, I am sure you will fall in love with it.

As much as staying with Zomato.com site or its smartphone app you will find some many good restaurants in your local area where people can go to enjoy different styles of food in various atmospheres that are interesting and intriguing. I just started dreaming about the party we planned .. we are in a party and having great fun with live music and dance….

Now it came time to decide on a restaurant for a group dinner (party of five – Gimme 5 gang) in GK locality where we can organize a party in our style.

I opened Zomato.com and clicked DINE-OUT option under EXPLORE, as it selected this, it appeared an additional option – check option “Search for restaurants in 4 / 5 star hotels only” – if you are looking for only 4/5 star hotels restaurant. I unchecked this optioned. In location field, I entered only GK2 ..since I’m living in GK, New Delhi., due to “auto complete feature” on this site it entered automatically “GREATER KAILASH (GK) 2, DELHI. Next option I have to select “Cuisine”.. in our gang, two guys are from North India (Delhi and Chandigarh), one from South India (Bangalore), one form North-East and last one from Mumbai. Each guy belongs to different region and each has different taste of tongue and so I selected MULTI CUISINE.

Zomato has returned two restaurant results near by GK:

While searching for a restaurant, I tried their advanced search feature for filtering results. I filtered the results by following categories: Open Now, Location, Cuisine, Cost of two, Pure Veg., Credit Cards, Buffet, Happy Hours, Wifi, Bar present, Bar not present, Live music, Outdoors, 4/5 * Hotels.

Finally, I filtered the results by Bar present, Live music, Wifi and Outdoors, Zomato returned two results and one of two results was “Zook” restaurant. I thought before finalizing the restaurant, I should read about Zook, live music service, liquors quality and variance and what kind of cuisines they serve and other required services as well. After going through these all things and also I read some reviews .. most guests wrote: Nice place to chilled out. Good varieties of food and hookah. I just love the place”. Great place,specially on weekends with friends! Nice place for a hanging out or for a party. Rocking music. Good ambiance and good food.

3. Make a restaurant Reservation through Zomato There should be a feature to make a reservation through Zomato directly. For this, you can provide a form which will ask customers to enter Restaurant Name, City, Phone and other required information.

Also, I saw the photos of restaurant interiors – looked awesome and rocking. On the day, this party was organizing in Zook, there is Unconventional Jam on the same day.

So finally we selected “Zook” for our “Gimme 5 Gang” party. All five guys were happy with selection of the restaurant “Zook”. Now, we started waiting for this rocking day. Finally that day has come. We all friends arrived at 8:20pm and but one of the friends asked us – Should I come with my girl friend. We told him, No problem, Dude! Today’s our day – come with your girlfriend.

It was rocking party and we had a great fun there. I must THANKS to ZOMATO because we got a good restaurant due to Zomato.com. After enjoying this party we named this party “Zomato Night @GK2″.

Last but not least…. just I wanna say.. it was rocking party organized due to Zomato restaurant guide. This site has so many featured, we do not need to go anywhere or ask anybody and just keep Zomato apps installed on your smartphone device — Stay connected with Zomato, Stay with Tasty Food and Fun.

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