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Seattle Sidewalk Offline Restaurant Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Seattle Dining

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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.

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.

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.