The Good Food Guide 2012
By The Good Food Guide
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Description
* One of the ‘SUNDAY TIMES TOP 500 APPS’ for 2012 *
The Good Food Guide is the UK's most trusted, bestselling and best-loved restaurant bible. An essential companion for foodies and for anyone visiting the UK, The Good Food Guide iPhone app gives you reviews of the very best restaurants, pubs and cafés throughout the country at the touch of a button.
With The Good Food Guide 2012 app, dining out has never been easier. View the entire Good Food Guide 2012 on your iPhone or iPad, with full, detailed reviews that reveal the dishes, chefs and new restaurant gems to look out for. Find a restaurant near you. Share and book your favourite restaurant and then contribute to the 2013 guide by sending us your restaurant feedback.
The Good Food Guide iOS 2012 application gives you:
- The entire Good Food Guide 2012 on your device with all new restaurant reviews
- Over 1300 reviews
- Share with friends through Twitter and email
- Restaurant Reservation functionality: book a table through the app
- The ability to write and send your reviews to The Good Food Guide from your phone
- Location-based map function to find restaurants near you
- Interactive map function that shows different types of entries
- The option to bookmark your favourite restaurants
- Immediate click-through to restaurants’ websites and telephone numbers
- Sort functionality: by distance, cuisine, cooking score, and price
First published in 1951, the guide is completely rewritten and compiled from scratch every year. All reviews are based on reader feedback and backed up by anonymous, expert inspections. The Good Food Guide does not accept freebies or advertising and is completely independent and impartial.
What's New in Version 1.1
We've made several improvements to optimise performance.
Customer Reviews
Still needs work..
Not much improvement even after update. Poor performance, even if it is the only app running. Locks up constantly and needs to be killed off and restarted. Still has unresponsive controls especially the bookmarking feature. Drains your battery as rapidly as some games. It's a shame as the content is invaluable. Would be a 5 star app if it performed well.
Elementary usability errors
In many respects the 2012 edition improves on the inaugural 2011 one. But did anyone do any user testing? It's an elementary principle of design that white text on a pale background is hard to read! And the type isn't resizable. I'm short-sighted but by no means severely visually impaired, and I find it difficult to read the text; there are going to be lots of people who are going to find the app completely unusable. The 2011 edition used black text on a white background, which gives optimal contrast. I am deeply disappointed by this new offering. Version 1.1 is good, but doesn't fix this problem. I'm a big fan of the GFG, but this ruins it for me.
Poor design and lousy interface
Update after 3 Feb revise. Still the same problem of a scrunched up, illegible display. It is simply beyond belief that a reputable brand like the GFG could produce such nonsense.
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White font on a pale green background - what were the designers thinking of?
But if the design is poor, the functionality is awful. If I select map view, then click on a flag, I get a scrunched up, illegible and unusable screen. Buttons respond slowly or not at all. Map view frequently refuses to show any restaurant content. And so on. A very poor implementation.
Others seem to like it, so I wonder - is this a hardware thing? I'm using an iPhone 3G, but so far as I can see there's no warning about this model in the App Store.
- £5.49
- Category: Reference
- Updated: 03 February 2012
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 12.3 MB
- Language: English
- Developer: PP Publishing Ltd
- © 2012 The Good Food Guide, 2012 YUZA
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 4.1 or later.
