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"Name: Taste Savant\nQuick Pitch: Taste Savant is a food-discovery platform featuring select reviews from trusted sources.\nGenius Idea: Users can view menus, make reservations and place delivery orders right from the website.\nIf you don't have celebrity chef or food blogger friend showing you the tastiest spots to dine, your best bet is to turn to Taste Savant.\nTaste Savant is a restaurant discovery platform that features reviews from select food experts. In a separate tab, the website highlights what your Facebook and Twitter friends are saying about a restaurant. \nOnly a number of restaurants per city are listed on Taste Savant at a time. The platform pulls reviews from seasoned food critics, celebrity chefs, famed bloggers and industry influencers. Recent food reviews from The New York Times, Tasting Table, The Village Voice, and other publications, are also uploaded onto restaurant profiles. Foodies can log in to the food-discovery platform with a Facebook or Twitter account. Users can also integrate their Foursquare checkins. \n\nTaste Savant is a platform built for savvy eaters. The network appeals to foodies who live to try the hottest new restaurants and find low-key dives.\nTaste Savant is the \"anti-yelp,\" Sonia Kapadia, founder and CEO of\u00A0Taste Savant, tells Mashable.\n\"Most of the competition is focused on getting as many reviews as possible and building a product that's everything for everyone,\" Kapadia says. \"What's great about Yelp is that you can get thousands and thousands of reviews from users for tons and tons of restaurants. We've done the complete opposite.\"\nKapadia wants to take the work out of food discovery. Taste Savant is highly curated and focused on a core user base \u2014 \"The person that's frustrated with Yelp,\" she says. \nTaste Savant's editorial team curates the restaurant discovery site by adding new eateries as they open and taking down shops that don't fare well among the reviewers. \"As soon as reviews come out every week, those restaurants get added to our database,\" Kapadia says.\nIndustry insiders \u2014 plus, your Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare friends \u2014 will point you in the direction of their favorites. For example, at April Bloomfield's casual bar and restaurant The Spotted Pig, Taste Savant readers will know to get the deviled eggs and famous ricotta gnudi without question.\n\nSEE ALSO: Internet Rallies Behind 9-Year-Old Food Blogger\nThe platform also cuts down the work in search. Users can search for restaurants by neighborhood, cuisine, price and occasion. Instead of checking off a large variety of neighborhoods, Taste Savant let's you check off bigger sections of a city. \nTaste Savant is a simply a one-stop shop for food. Through its partnerships with Single Platform, OpenTable and Seamless, users can view menus, place reservations and order food directly on the website.\nTaste Savant is currently available in New York City. It will be announcing its presence in a new city soon. Taste Savant will continue to expand to major cities. \nWould you use a tailored user and critic-generated food review platform? Share your thoughts with us in the comments. \nImage courtesy of Flickr, eightfivezero."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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