Are you looking for a web site that has comprehensive restaurant listings and reviews of restaurants, say, for Hayward? Hey, so am I! The fact of the matter is - is that they don't exist. Do depend on your friends, neighbors, family and co-workers "word of mouth" for restaurant recommendations, but also check out these foodie sites:
Number one on my foodie web sites is chowhound.com. This is a very active webboard with many folks posting questions, comments, restaurant reviews, "downhill alerts" and all else related to food and dining. Check out the San Francisco board.
Professional and trustworthy restaurant reviews can be found at the East Bay Express, a weekly free newspaper found throughout the East Bay. Follow the home page to select about 16 restaurants in Hayward.
One of the best private sites is maintained by Margarita Lacabe. She includes some fairly detailed critiques of many local restaurants, focusing on East Bay communities: http://www.marga.org/food/rest/
Jeff and Terry's Bay Area Reviews (JATBAR) has one entry for Hayward (Val's Burgers) but is a good resource for restaurants for Fremont and the South Bay: http://www.jatbar.com/.
JATBAR is a very cool site. Another site similar to jatbar (much simpler) is adampaul.com's site, which needs some updating (e.g., Zorn's Restaurant at Mission / A Street is now closed.)
And there are several wannabe sites that have sporadic, paltry and brief restaurant reviewers by site visitors, but none have really taken off. Typically you may find one to three reviews by site visitors, though these sites do tend to have a good coverage of the restaurants. Think of these as web yellow page directories:
Perhaps one of these days I'll launch my own "Hayward Restaurant Reviews" site, but I'm probably not the best food critic. I do intend to patronize the local restaurants within walking distance of my new home. I will favor some over others, but that's fair.
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