Check out our new Food & Drink portal
December 18th, 2008 by Besha Rodell in Food media, NewsToday we launch our new Food & Drink “portal” — a one-stop shop for all things food and drink. The page, which replaces the old Food & Drink section online, allows us to have all of our content and reviews, the blog, food content from around the web, restaurant listings and search capabilities, food and drink events, and links to archives, all in one place.
Where the Food & Drink section used to be produced once weekly, much like the paper, this new format puts the power in my hands (Mwahahahah), so I can publish what I want when I want. This means that I’ll be putting new content up throughout the week — features like Grazing, Cheap Eats and the restaurant review will be available on the website before they come out in the paper. New content will go up daily.
In other great website news, our events listings now have a functional food and drink component — all the food events are searchable. You can look at them from our homepage (at the very top) or by clicking on the “view more Atlanta food events” link at the bottom of the events box on the new food page. If you have cooking classes, wine tastings, special dinners or any other food events you’d like to see listed, you can submit the details via this page, or send a press release to happenings@creativeloafing.com.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
mwahahaha!
December 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Looks great, Besha. Congrats to you, Alejandro and all the rest in getting this in place!
December 26th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Would be nice to have restaurants that have gone out of business purged from the database. There are so many that no longer exist that the online search tool has become nearly useless.
Another nice search option would be “No chains.” It is a pain to search, say, Decatur and have to wade through 29 Subways.
December 27th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Couldn’t agree more, Paul! We are working on getting the database cleaned up. One way to search without chains is to ask for critics picks only. I know that isn’t exactly what you need, but it might help.