Foodie, the popular iPhone app offering discounted dinners and fixed price specials at some of the city's top restaurants, is now taking reservations for their offers online. Now those of you waiting for Ari Bendersky and company to get their collective act together and create a Foodie app for Android and other smartphones can at least be able to experience the same specials we iPhone lemmings have been able to take advantage of for months. more ›

I’ve been spending a lot of time reading the recent debates over Groupon and the other group-deal coupon sites. Some argue they hurt small business, some that they can save a business that is on the rocks. I don’t have a business degree, and I’m hardly un-biased - I love cheap food as much as the next customer. Despite the glitz and glamour of my foodie life (I wish!) meals still cost a lot, and it’s hard for all of us. So, I’m a regular user of many of these sites. But I tip on the entire, original bill. more ›

We've profiled need-to-have food and drink-related smartphone applications in recent months, from Stolpman's review of the Poynt app, to Lizz's recount of beta-testing the Foodie app. Now they're starting to come fast and furious, with MenuPages' application only one of many to be released. Of course, we should also take the time to pimp the Ist-a-verse app. more ›

Here's a deal for iPhone users who installed the foodie app. If you use foodie to make a reservation at mk this evening for their four-course tasting menu (a $45 value), you'll receive a free $15 gift card to DMK Burger Bar. As a bonus, anyone who makes a reservation using foodie through January 26 will become eligible for a pass to Stephanie Izard's final Wandering Goat dinner January 27. the more reservations you make through foodie, the more entries you have toward winning the dinner. more ›

Who says tech in Chicago is in a rut? Quick on the heels of Groupon's cool $30 million in VC funding comes Foodie, the little iPhone app that opens the doors of the city's elite restaurants to anyone with an appetite for great dining experiences. And for once, yours truly was on the cutting edge of a new social trend. more ›

Food writer John T. Edge, in the latest edition of the under-appreciated Oxford American magazine, profiles scientist and serious eater Ken Ford, who has a depth of culinary knowledge that is earned only with constant searching. In profiling Ford, Edge raises an interesting observation about a common slang term used to describe a gourmet: more ›