Toronto Life: Best Restaurants app for iPhone and iPad
The Toronto Life Best Restaurants app is Torontos most authoritative guide to dining. Easy to use and frequently updated, the app presents informed, opinionated reviews of over 450 of Torontos best restaurants, selected by the critics at Toronto Life magazine, the citys award-winning monthly magazine.
The app makes it easy for you to find the perfect restaurant for any occasion. You can search according to neighbourhood, star rating, price range, cuisine, and so much more! You can also set the app to provide recommendations based on certain criteria that are important to you, like outdoor dining, vegetarian options, kid-friendly restaurants and delivery services. Using your iPhones GPS, this app will also tell you which Toronto Life-recommended restaurants are close by.
Whether you are looking for steak frites or a vegan feast, a business lunch or a family brunch, the app will provide a range of choices—and even help you decide what to order.
Pros and cons of Toronto Life: Best Restaurants app for iPhone and iPad
Toronto Life: Best Restaurants app good for
Not full of crap yelp reviews just solid restaurants. Would love to see more places covered but these restaurants are reliable.
Could just use a todo list, a favorites list and an option to add restaurants to your address book... At a minimum. More social options would be in everyones best interests as well
Version 3 is a big improvement: iPad support, geo-locating seems better, opens links in Safari and more restaurants and a separate database to ease updates.
Toronto Lifes restaurant reviews are the only ones in town that I bother with, so I was thrilled when I learned they had an app. Sadly, the early version didnt update very often and frequently told me to go to places that were closed or had new chefs.
All that has changed! This new version is always up to date, and sometimes even has reviews ahead of the magazine. There are tons of new features on it too—mapping is much improved and the search Gives you really specific criteria that help when trying to find a particular kind of place (vegetarian, kid-friendly, delivery, take-out, etc.).
Thoroughly recommended.
Not all the functionality is hope for from an app like this, but does the trick.
Some bad moments
Listing includes many restaurants that have closed. New restaurants reviewed in recent magazine issue are not to be found.
Id like to at least be able to "add to to-do list" or mark as a favourite or be able to add to contacts or bookmark - nada
The long defunct Toronto Calendar was more reliable and Joanne Kates can only visit so many places in a year. Toronto Life is pretty good. Not sure why one nearby entry says restaurant now closed after a data update. Remove it already!
This is nothing like the great guide which i anxiously wait for all year....DO NOT purchase....just take the guide around with you. I expected to be able to see all the same restaurants that the guide has but it only lists about 20 restaurants even when you search all in all fields. I want my 2 dollars back so disappointed!!
Basic features but expected more from Toronto Life. Better graphics needed to be user friendly and visually appealing. Could use enhanced features like ability to add restaurants to favorite list and potentially even the ability for app users to share their experiences and rate restaurants.
When you click on the review for a restaurant, the app wont let you scroll down to read the whole review. Annoying.
