Menus are nice, but pictures are yummy. Foodspotting combines the location awareness of Gowalla with the food fetish of a restaurant critic, letting diners update and share on-the-spot reviews and photos of every restaurant they hit. That info becomes accessible to all, so before confronting your hurried waiter, you can pull out your phone and see what that plate of spaghetti really looks like. (See the Foodspotting mobile app.)
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