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Every sizable city has a host of tourist oriented locations: gimmicky places, over priced eateries, gift shops. Where The Locals Eat is a restaurant guide to spare you searching for delicious and authentic food.
The reviews of local restaurants are divided among the fifty largest cities in the United States, with the top one hundred restaurants in each city further categorized. You can drill down through the reviews to see where the best place to get sushi, burgers, pizza, shrimp, or any of a hundred odd sub-categories of dining. If the town has a great Asian Fusion joint, you'll find it.
More importantly, Where The Locals Eat makes it their business to ensure you'll find it. Every review includes the basics: address, phone number, website if they have one and also includes a map, driving instructions, and the ability to send all that information to your mobile phone. If you're sporting an iPhone, there an application called LocalEats. 
If you have no idea what you're in the mood for, but you want something local and delicious, Where The Locals Eat has a Top 100 Map function that displays all of the top restaurants surrounding you. Now when laying semi-comatose from jet lag in your hotel room, you can impress your travel companions by pulling a great (and close!) dining pick out of thin air.
The real test is trying out the directory against a local city you've already well experienced. In my case for testing purposes, Metro Detroit was the stomping grounds of choice. I decided to query Where The Locals Eat with a request for the best steakhouse and best soul food restaurant, paying respect of course to the locale of choice. I already had two places in mind that I considered the best of the best in Metro Detroit and Where The Locals Eat delivered spot on. It turns out that the two of us were in agreement for best of class: The Rochester Chop House for delicious steak of all kinds and Beans & Cornbread for the kind of soul food you can feel stuck to your veins a month later. For more help picking restaurants, check out the authentic reviews at OpenTable.
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