Tooting my own horn…

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

Filed Under Awards, Random Musings, Restaurant Reviews 

I am a modest person in real life, but my virtual persona doesn’t really mind tooting her own horn once in a while… Wait, I don’t really have a virtual person per se… Oh well… Anyway, here goes…

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Urbanspoon had a contest in March to eat at and review the most number of restaurants from the twenty-five for $25 list. We didn’t eat out much in March, so I wasn’t going for that contest, but they had a special critic’s choice prize for their favorite restaurant review. No prizes for guessing who won.

http://www.urbanspoon.com/Seattle/25-spoons-contest.html

Critic’s Choice goes to Sig at Live to Eat for her post on Nishino. We promised a prize of no monetary value, and we will deliver. Sig will get the VERY FIRST Urbanspoon t-shirt ever. The first one, top of the stack. Now that’s priceless.

Yeah, it is just a T-Shirt, but who cares, I’m too happy I won something.  :-)

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About Urbanspoon

If you are a regular here, you might have seen the links from my restaurant reviews to the Urbanspoon site. Urbanspoon is a restaurant site with user reviews, maps, menus etc,  The reason I love Urbanspoon compared to other restaurant sites like Yelp etc. is that I can post the reviews on my blog versus posting on their site. Just by adding a small piece of code, my review will get added to the restaurant page on their site.  If you don’t have a blog, the comments can be added directly on the restaurant page like other sites. Either way, when you look up a restaurant, you can see what bloggers and non bloggers are saying about it.  

There are some other cool features like an aggregate RSS feed for the restaurant reviews in your town from all bloggers who spoon, ability to create and share personalized lists like my favorite Seattle restaurants, restaurants I want to try etc. 

Since they have been so nice to me, thought I will return the favor by plugging them here. So, if you aren’t already doing it, time to start spooning! They cover Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles ,New York and SF Bay Area in addition to Seattle.



Comments

18 Responses to “Tooting my own horn…”

  1. Meeta on April 18th, 2007 9:22 am

    Congrats! I want to see a pic of you presenting the prize please!!

  2. sunita on April 18th, 2007 9:54 am

    That’s great news indeed…congratulations…and do’nt worry about tooting your own horn…think of it as sharing some good news with dear friends (if I may consider myself one of them)…as for the prize, I do’nt think it matters much as to what you got so long as you’ve won…well, others did’nt , did they…well done!!!

  3. Freya and Paul on April 18th, 2007 10:53 am

    Congratulations! Even though the prize is just a shirt it just mean that they enjoyed your writing which is the best bit of all! Next stop, New York Times reviews!

  4. Susan on April 18th, 2007 12:21 pm

    That’s fantastic Sig! Toot! Toot! :)

  5. Mishmash ! on April 18th, 2007 12:56 pm

    Hey Cool! Congrats :)

    Shn

  6. Richa on April 18th, 2007 1:39 pm

    congrats sweetie! very well deserved!
    do post the pic of the prize (modest that you are ;-) ha!ha! )
    but seriously, it is nice to share these moments with the blog buds.
    many more to come…

  7. Asha on April 18th, 2007 2:11 pm

    Toot away girl!!! Why not? Enjoy the T-Shirt.It’s always good to hear about your blog somewhere else!Enjoy and congratulations:))

  8. Sia's Corner on April 18th, 2007 2:11 pm

    congrats sig for winning the critics award:) dont forget to post the pic of ur prize, well may be post pic of urs wearing it:) virtual person? he he he… very true;)

  9. Sandeepa on April 18th, 2007 6:35 pm

    Congrats !!!!!! :) Toot..toot
    Now a pic of you in the shirt please :)

    How I missed your Vishu post, donno, so wishing you a Happy vishu and need I say “What a spread “” :)

  10. bee on April 18th, 2007 6:58 pm

    yay. sig rocks. i learnt from your review on nishino that halibuts have ‘cheeks’. what the hell are halibut cheeks? lol.

    next we’ll find out what?

  11. musical on April 18th, 2007 7:31 pm

    Hey Sig, Congrats dear! and its perfectly fun to toot the horns on occassions like these:-D

    Toot away and do post a picture of the prize.

    Very well deserved, indeed.

    I’ll check out their Los Angeles, Boston and NYC reviews-hope they ahve someone as good as you writing those reviews!

  12. Reena on April 18th, 2007 7:34 pm

    yay!!! i am glad my friend won the critics choice award. now i want to see a pic of you in that t-shirt and also the acceptance speech:).

    congratulations!!!!! toot! toot!

  13. Sheela on April 18th, 2007 7:58 pm

    Congrats, Sig!! I’ve been following your restaurant reviews closely, even if i can’t see myself relishing the items as much as D would.

    p.s: Was wondering how you and siv manage to eat out as much and cook wonderfully at home too… you make it seem easy and i have a feeling it is not :-)

  14. Mythili on April 18th, 2007 9:14 pm

    Sig,
    (HUG)(HUG)
    Congratulations… also we want to see the T-shirt!!!

    Thanks for introducing me to Urbanspoon. I love trying out new eateries and you showed me the gateway…Good, gooder, goodest !!!:P

  15. Sig on April 18th, 2007 11:05 pm

    Meeta, thanks :), I am not really a T-shirt kinda girl, moreover they just promised the T-Shirt, it is not hear yet…

    Sunita, of course you are all my dear friends, that is why I was comfortable in tooting :)

    Freya, Ha ha New York Times,that would be awesome wouldn’t it? :)

    Susan, thanks for the extra Toots :D

    Shn, thanks dear!

    Richa, it is so nice to share the news with the blog buddies… , and I will post a picture of the T-shirt, probably not with me in it :)

    Asha, you are so right, it is no nice to hear about the blog somewhere else, however small the mention is :)

    Supriya, Thanks, :) as I said, I won’t be in it, I am sure they will send me an XL, looking at all the food I can eat… :D

    Sandeepa, thanks… :) Vishu spread was nice, but I’d take your New Year spread any day what with all those fish and chicken and stuff…

    Bee, haven’t you seen a halibut’s rear end? The babies got butts. :)

    Musical, are you a trotting between NY, Boston and LA? What do you do girl?

    Reena, :) thanks, critics choice award sounds really cool right?

    Sheela, eating out is very easy, it is the cooking part which is tough :-)

    Mythili, thanks sweetie… I love Urbanspoon, I like to read comments from bloggers on their site than the comments people leave on the restaurant search sites like citysearch and stuff.

  16. Pravs on April 19th, 2007 2:50 pm

    Congrats sig !! That’s really something.Would love see the prize you won.

  17. musical on April 19th, 2007 5:39 pm

    “What do you do, girl”

    Live in LA and dream about the wonderful time i had in Boston and NYC :-D

    i loved a lot of places in Boston and NYC…..if i can’t get the real deal till i visit the cities again, the next best thing to do is read the restaurant reviews :-D and i really do that a lot of times…..i am all about nostalgia, Sig ;).

  18. Amy on April 19th, 2007 10:28 pm

    That’s wonderful! Congrats! I’ve discovered so many new places to eat from reading your blog. I’ll check out the urbanspoon site sometime.

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