Zagat

Future rather than Present

Argyle93

This app is terrible. It does not allow one to select dining spots where one plans to be in the future. Rather one is restricted to places in one’s current location. Searching by specific locations has always been a significant deficiency of this app.

Stuck with local recommendations

NYCPrynne

Unable to search for restaurants in other cities easily, which is pretty ridiculous. You can switch the City's Best to another city, but not search for different cuisines, etc. Ridiculous. Please restore to the old pre-google, Handmark designed app.

2nd Update: Worst Ever.

Mister Tim of NOLA

For years, I have trusted Zagat to provide me with honest ratings of restaurants. No more. My wife and I live in New Orleans, where we enjoy a wide range of excellent restaurants. Recently, after The Zagat ownership changed hands, we noticed several of our favorite restaurants — all excellent places — had disappeared from the app searches. Second Update: Map searches result in pins but no map. Absolutely worthless. Also, as others have noted, they have not updated their restaurants. They continue to show “Zagat rated” restaurants that have been closed for months. Eater.com continues to impress me. They provide regular updates and also keep track of new openings and closings. Unfortunately, eater.com does not have an app, at least for now. Zagat needs to get their act together or cut bait. First Update: They seem to have restored the “missing” top notch restaurants that were historically present in the Zagat list of highly rated restaurants. However, there continue to be restaurants that are “Zagat rated”that I personally do not believe are worthy of the designation. Furthermore, when I tested the app again today, it diverted me to other cities, after I selected New Orleans as the location. Bugs galore. Since I discovered the issues with this app, I’ve been regularly using eater.com. Eater.com impresses me as providing honest and independent assessments of restaurants. I’ll give Zagat one more chance. If they don’t fix their issues, their app will be gone for good on my phone.

What happened?

Image geek

This was a great app. Now "search by neighborhood" does not work. I'm in NY and it presents me lists of restaurants from other states (yes, location services is on). Menus have also been deleted and the number of photos has been reduced. It's practically useless.

Stupid annoying

deeziyak

some bug is effing with the location and giving me restaurants in Malibu??? I’m in Brooklyn??? What is good zagat ur so annoying I’m sick of it smh ??‍♂️

What happened?!

David Jay Films

Used to be a great app. Now it’s close to useless unless you’re trying to find a place right around where you are.

The search by neighborhood function is malfunctioning

GFA___

The map is not narrowing to my location, consistently for weeks

Bad app

zqmzyjz566666

Very bad app. Gives you everything you don’t want, but impossible to direct to what you really want.

Massive bugs

Ace1001101

Major bugs make this app useless. For example if you search for a cuisine, say “Italian” you will start scrolling thru results. You will see restaurant A as you scroll down. Then a little more scrolling and you see restaurant A again. So it only displays / few results. This is just one bug. Awful app.

Software gore

AI_Monkey

Zagat reviews are without a doubt far more useful than yelp ones (hence a 2-star rating not 1-star), but the app is atrocious. Searching for dinner places (through the button, not even a search term) returns brunch places, typing in "brunch" returns bars. When you scroll in the list view it pretty quickly starts showing you places that you've already scrolled past. Perhaps best of all, the app offers a special view where you can select a neighborhood of the city to list the best options, but searches the other side of the country. In my case, I clicked on the east 80s neighborhood in Manhattan just to be shown a map of restaurants in Minneapolis. Honestly it baffles me that someone can consider this piece of software anywhere near finished enough to be released.

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