Seattle Sidewalk Offline Restaurant Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Seattle Dining [Paperback]

Sidewalk. com (Editor), Kathleen Flinn (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

This complete restaurant guide offers reviews with an attitude, compiled in a handy, pocket size. This guidebook also does something that no other can: namely, give readers up-to-date changes on menus prices closings, and openings via its Web site, http://www.microsoft.com/sidewalk/.

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Amazon.com Review

Seattle.sidewalk is the Web site with all the Seattle choices--restaurants, hotels, sights, etc. But precious good that information's going to do when you're in Seattle and your computer's at home. So the restaurants are now available offline and on paper, in that quaint old format called a book. With a pull-out map to help you locate the restaurants, there are more than 500 restaurant reviews presented alphabetically, and five extremely helpful indexes organizing the reviews by star ratings, neighborhoods, cuisines, special features, and especially good deals, making Seattle even easier to love than before.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books; 1st edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570610800
• ISBN-13: 978-1570610806
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 3.7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,210,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good, handy guide to Seattle restaurants, February 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Seattle Sidewalk Offline Restaurant Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Seattle Dining (Paperback)

The reviews are concise, well-written and neatly organized in this book. There's a lot of indexes that are ultra helpful as well. I'm a big fan of the online site, http://seattle.sidewalk.com and so it was great to find a bit of the information that I could take with me. I often print out reviews from the site and slip inside the book. It's now stuffed with reviews of all the latest places.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good, wish it were updated, May 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Seattle Sidewalk Offline Restaurant Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Seattle Dining (Paperback)

I was so sad when they shut sidewalk.com down as I used it constantly. Nothing has come along to replace it. What I wish they would do is to update this book; it was my favourite guidebook to restaurants in Seattle. It was concise and well organised, plus it had very good indexes. I wrote this review, though, because I am not sure why another reviewer said there weren't any Chinese restaurants -- I thought this seemed wrong so I have checked and there were some listed in the book, so I'm not sure where that complaint came from.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Book is not comprehensive, July 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Seattle Sidewalk Offline Restaurant Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Seattle Dining (Paperback)

I needed a restaurant guide because I am relocating to Seattle. I was EXTREMELY disappointed that these guys (read Microsoft) overlooked the most popular Asian cuisine: Chinese. While I personally enjoy other Asian foods, I found it incredible that the publisher missed Chinese food altogether and yet showed numerous listings for Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese food. If the Chinese restaurants were included, MSN Sidewalk needs more qualified help in proper categorization or a QA process.

The book covers other cateogies and looks ok. But if you're looking for one good comprehenesive guide, this one missed the mark.