Urbanspoon Goes Global

Urbanspoon, the online local restaurant guide, announced international expansion yesterday. They are partnering with online reservation services Dimmi and Livebookings.  Now, Urbanspoon diners worldwide will have the ability to book reservations at nearly 7,000 restaurants with the addition of Livebookings and Dimmi reservation inventory.  In the US alone, Urbanspoon is now seating over 2 million US diners per month, a number that has doubled in the last 6 months.

“Our goal is to give diners the best tools along every step of their dining experience, from finding the right restaurant, to making a reservation and giving feedback on their meal,” said Kara Nortman, Senior Vice President, Consumer Businesses, CityGrid. “Partnering with other great companies, like Dimmi and Livebookings, extends our reservations coverage to millions of Urbanspoon diners internationally.”

“Partnering with Urbanspoon highlights our commitment to provide our restaurant customers with access to more traffic,” Guy Halfhead, Vice President of Sales, Livebookings. “Urbanspoon’s user base represents high-quality diners looking to find and book reservations; matching them with our reservation inventory makes perfect sense to our business.”

“Dimmi’s goal is to provide our restaurant customers with access to the best diners in the region and driving new reservations through Urbanspoon allows us to deliver even more value to our restaurants,” said Stevan Premutico, founder and CEO of Dimmi. “Urbanspoon is a popular source of premier restaurant content in Australia and we’re excited about integrating our high-quality reservation product with their website and mobile app.”

Urbanspoon’s expansion into the international market also began with coverage in Ireland, putting information and reviews on more than 2,000 restaurants at the fingertips of Irish (and lucky visiting) diners.

Urbanspoon aggregates restaurant content from across the Web including newspapers, professional food critics, bloggers and diners. It allows diners to make restaurant reservations through its online booking service, both on the Web and mobile. Urbanspoon also offers restaurants Urbanspoon Rezbook – a reservation and table management system built to run on the Apple iPad.