Restaurant List

The recipes in our application come from a very prestigious list of restaurants. These restaurants include 1, 2 and 3 star Michelin rated restaurants, James Beard award winning chefs and restaurants listed in the S. Pelligrino list of World's 50 and 100 best restaurants.

Here is the list so far:

• Michael Mina - San Francisco
• Joël - Atlanta
• Sepia - Chicago
• Hibiscus - London
• The Greenhouse - London
• Tom's Kitchen - London
• Tom Aikens - London
• Convivio - New York
• Atria - New York
• Wild Honey - London
• La Colombe - Cape Town, South Africa
• Die Schwarzwaldstube - Baiersbron, Germany
• Umu - London
• Incanto - San Francisco
• Arbutus - London
• Le Café Anglais - London
• Chocolate Pink - Atlanta
• Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester - Dorchester
• Public - New York
• 21 Oceanfront - Newport Beach, CA
• Aqua - San Francisco
• Aqua - Wolfsburg, Germany
• Residenz Heinz Winkler - Germany
• BLT Steak - New York
• Coi - San Francisco
• Nobu - New York
• SPQR - San Francisco
• Royal Mail - Dunkeld, Australia
• Tantris - Munich
• Oaxen Skärgårdskrog - Sweden
• Picholine - New York
• The River Café - London
• Sushisamba - Mew York
• Le Quartier Francais - Franschoek, South Africa
• La Rosetta Restaurant - Rome, Italy
• Lark - Seattle
• St. JOHN BAR and RESTAURANT - London
• Zuma - Hong Kong
• Rockpool - Sydney
• Michel Guerard - Les Prés d'Eugénie - France
• Le Gavroche - London
• Biko - Mexico
• Saul - New York
• The Spotted Pig - New York
• Vue de Monde - Australia
• Dressler - New York
• Flour Bakery - Boston

Why the Name 42 Restaurants?

Many people ask us why we decided to name the application 42 Restaurants and contrary to references to Douglas Adams's books: The Restaurant At the End of the Universe and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. We did not take the answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything: 42 and Milliways and use it as a reference to our application.

The application is so named because when the concept for it was created, we needed to work out the minimum number of recipes/restaurants we would need to feature to provide value to our users. 42 seemed a sufficient number and so the name stuck.

We did try working with other names, such as the Skilled Skillet, but it was hard to imagine our application being called anything else.

Once we started approaching restaurants we realized we would encounter a different problem. That of numbers. We had such a good response that we knew we could not release only 42. In fact the initial release will feature just under 50 with more to come in subsequent updates.

Of course quality not quantity is key and we have included the best of the best for the launch.

Restaurant Thumbnails

Here is a bird's eye view of 44 of the restaurant's recipes. Click to view the full size version:

A Little Hors d'Oeuvre

The iPhone application for 42 Restaurants is now complete and we are busy putting the final touches on the recipe designs. In the meantime here is a little taste of things to come courtesy of Joël in Atlanta

Welcome

Welcome to the blog for the iPhone application, 42 Restaurants.

We are busy creating the most beautiful iPhone food application in the AppStore. 42 Restaurants is currently in its development phase but for now you can view a video of what we have created so far. Feel free to leave any comments.

You can either follow our progress here or on our Facebook page.