about us

Restaurant Row’s mission is to help people find and share information on Restaurants.

In 1994 an “eat out too much” foodie named Jim, literally, in his garage with a computer created The Diners Grapevine, a place where restaurants could pay for a listing, 6 restaurants signed up. Probably the only 6 restaurants with an online computer in those days.

One year and a million keystrokes later, Jim moved to the campus of SUNY Purchase and built such a “neat database” for restaurants, a company came along and struck a deal that left Jim with a list of 7000 restaurants. So he placed this list into his “neat database” and posted it online at www.restaurantrow.com

Soon after a community of people was searching this database and then sending Jim emails about how their meal's were. Clever as ever Jim put a “review it button” and born was one of the first restaurant information and review websites.

By 1997 the site would become one of the largest databases of restaurant information and services in the world with information on more than 130,000 restaurants in 10,000 cities and towns.

In 2009 we decided that data alone was not enough and that to truly serve a community you must build a community. So the team regrouped and set out to build this current design iteration. Now www.restaurantrow.com is helping customers find and share information on Restaurants, not just online but on every digital device you can think of.

Currently our database covers over 193,071 restaurants, 31,219 reviews, 80,000 menus and growing every second. (Just hit your refresh to see)

As in the past, restaurantRow.com will always strive the best place to search and find restaurants.

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