Dining with Data: Digesting Food and APIs
"The most important aspect of food is the discovery experience (besides actually eating). An individual needs to uncover these new tastes, foods, restaurants, recipes, and ingredients. Fortunately, you are now able to harness the power of apps and APIs to save you time, and access relevant information. Tapping into your Social Graph, all this can be curated for you. For example, I’ve been using Foursquare’s data to discover popular restaurants. Thanks to their Venue API , the mashup MisoTrendy can showcase what restaurant’s are trending – right now. This is a great tool to use in any city to impress your friends. The discovery experience has certainly got an upgrade."
Colin McCabe from Mashery on exciting ways APIs can help you discover new restaurants including mashups between Foodspotting and OpenBuildings - a combination of good food and awesome buildings.