Recent press for toptable.com

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01/05/10 - A taste of what's on in May

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toptable, the essential restaurant guide is offering 30 couples the chance to win a meal for two at a selection of top restaurants across the UK go to www.30days.co.uk now for a chance to win

01/05/10 - iPhone Apps of the month

Tomorrow's Technology Today

toptable - an augmented reality restaurant locator with an invaluable tip calculator - free

12/04/10 - Revolution Highly Commend Emailcenter’s approach to Email Marketing

PR Inside

Judges for the Revolution Awards, held at Grosvenor House – London, included leading marketers from Facebook, Coca Cola, and Orange... Emailcenter received the commendation from Revolution for the work conducted for toptable.com, the restaurant booking service.Read more

08/04/10 - 20 Money Saving Apps

Telegraph.co.uk

If you have an iPhone or a BlackBerry there are dozens of clever applications you can download to help save you money. Read more

05/04/10 - Ethical dining could shape the restaurant of the future

Metro.co.uk

Ethical dining: A lack of reliable information means it’s not easy being green for restaurant-goers but a new accreditation scheme is set to change that. Read more

01/04/10 - Guide to online marketing: iPhone applications

Big Hospitality

Technology moves faster than Alastair Darling at a pub convention, but one rising trend that looks likely to stick around is the iPhone application, which if implemented properly, can help increase restaurant or hotel bookings.Read more

01/04/10 - top five gadgets that promise to change the world

Daily Express

Techies behind online restaurant booking service toptable have developed groundbreaking new "scratch and sniff" technology that enables food lovers to smell a restaurant before they book Read more

01/04/10 - Profile Karen Hanton

Growing Business

Dotcom survivor Karen Hanton on holding her nerve, celebrity shareholders and identifying new growth areas for restaurant booking website toptableRead more

01/04/10 - toptable - rating ****

What Mobile

toptable will help you make dining arrangements any day of the week. It's an iPhone spin-off from the popular restaurant booking website which lets you look up nearby eateries and book tables from your handset.

29/03/10 -Guide to online marketing: Using external websites

Big Hospitality

The vast majority of restaurants, pubs and hotels have their own websites these days, but as the online world increases in size, how can you ensure that your business doesn't get lost in that growing community?Read more

27/03/10 - Gadgets

Telegraph Magazine

App Watch...The enormous (and enormously successful) restaurant-finding website has recently added a free iPhone app to let you use its services while you’re on the go.Search by area, or let the app use your location to find restaurants near you. It will also let you book a table, and there is a search option that lets you find special offers nearby.

26/03/10 - Orange trials new Toptable 'Spot Click' ad format

MediaWeek.co.uk

Orange has become the first major advertiser to use the new "Spot Click" ad format on dining website Toptable.

26/03/10 - Orange trials new Toptable 'Spot Click' ad format

Brand Republic

Telecoms operator Orange has become the first major advertiser to use the new "Spot Click" ad format on dining website toptable.Read more

21/03/10 - How to pay off your mortgage in 9 years

Daily Express

There are lots of ways to have a good time without the big price tag. Go out for dinner for half price with Toptable.com. Read more

15/03/10 - Mother's Day - There's an app for that

Networkworld.com

Here's a small selection of Mother's Day friendly apps recommend by Apple themselves. Enjoy.Read more

03/03/10 - toptable iPhone app reaches 100,000 downloads in two weeks

New Media Age

The app has consistently been rated in the top five lifestyle apps in Apple’s App Store for the past ten days. It allows people to find and book restaurants on the move. Other features include a tip calculator and an augmented reality map of how to get to restaurants.Read more

02/03/10 - toptable unveils iPhone app

Mobile Entertainment

The app was developed with Mobile Commerce is downloadable for free from the app store.It features an augmented reality element ‘table reality’ that allows users to actually see where the nearby restaurants are, a ‘tip calculator’ that makes it easy to work out how much gratuity to leave and ‘my sommelier’ which gives tips on what wine goes well with certain dishes.Read more

02/03/10 - Sustainable Restaurant Association launches with 85 members

Big Hospitality

According to results of a survey by Toptable, 93 per cent of its users think that restaurants and chefs should lead by example in promoting healthy and sustainable food choices.Read more

02/0310 - toptable launches iPhone app

tmcnet.com

Europe's leading online dining community and restaurant reservation service, announces today the launch of their iPhone app.Read more

01/03/10 - Just the tonic...

Smartlife International

Let's face it, most free applications for the iPhone are, for want of a better word, naff... That's all changed with toptable's new app - a restaurant guide and booking facility that makes finding and booking a restaurant as easy as having your own concierge.

22/02/10 - toptable launches iPhone app

Big Hospitality

The application features the newly developed augmented reality technology, allowing users to ‘see’ where nearby restaurants are, a tip calculator, and a ‘my sommelier’ wine and food matching function.Read more

22/02/10 - 20 ways to save £20

Moneywise.co.uk

Every little bit helps – so Moneywise has come up with 20 top ways you can make counting the pennies add up to a considerable saving. Read more

19/02/10 - toptable iPhone app locates nearby restaurants

netimperative

Online dining and reservation community toptable has launched a free iPhone app, offering augmented reality- based locations services, a tip calculator and even a wine recommendation tool.

20/02/10 - Top-notch nosh

The Sydney Morning Herald

Worth a look if you want to avoid ending up in a poor restaurant while travelling is toptable.com Read more

18/02/10 - App Watch: toptable books a seat on the iPhone

Mobile Choice

Popular online dining and restaurant service toptable is now available as a free app for the iPhone Read more

18/02/10 - Carl Lyons joins toptable

New Media Age

Dining community and restaurant reservation service toptable has appointed Carl Lyons as marketing director Read more

18/02/10 - toptable launches iPhone app

New Media Age

Online restaurant booking site toptable has launched a free app for the iPhone Read more

13/02/10 - Dine Your Valentine

The Telegraph

For a last-minute romantic Valentine’s Day meal, visit www.toptable.com

13/02/10 - Young hearts run free

The Herald

Looking for a location to pop the question? Go to Le Jules Verne in the Eiffel Tower, Paris, a restaurant that sits 125 metres above the ground. For more down to earth dining options,visit www.toptable.com.

10/02/10 - Valentine's Day ideas for those on a budget

Eastern Eye

A great website offering up to half price off your food bill is toptable.com

10/02/10 - Valentine's Day

Shields Gazette

It doesn't have to cost the earth to show your love... If you fancy a meal out but can't afford to splurge it's worth checking out toptable.com

10/02/10 - Is there love across the Channel?

The Times

Are French women really sexier? Are British men more gentlemanly? A mass Anglo-French blind date attempted to find out. Read more

10/02/10 - Carl Lyons

Marketing

toptable, the online restaurant reservation service, has appointed Carl Lyons as marketing director. Lyons was most recently head of digital marketing at media company Bauer.

06/02/10 - It's worth booking a place at the toptable

The Guardian Money

Don't pay to join a discount dining club before checking out the deals on offer at toptable.com. Read more

05/02/10 - Toptable hires former Bauer and Capital Radio marketer Carl Lyons

Brand Republic

Toptable, the dining community and online restaurant reservation service, has appointed Carl Lyons as marketing director.Read more

05/02/10 - Toptable hires former Bauer and Capital Radio marketer Carl Lyons

Marketing

Toptable, the dining community and online restaurant reservation service, has appointed Carl Lyons as marketing director. Read more

04/02/10 - toptable recruits former Capital radio and Bauer marketer

Marketing Week

Toptable, the dining online restaurant reservation service, has appointed former Capital Radio and lastminute.com marketer Carl Lyons as marketing director.Read more

04/02/10 - Bauer Media hit by loss of further two senior digital executives

New Media Age

Carl Lyons is now marketing director of restaurant booking service toptable.

04/02/10 - Manor wins three toptable prizes

Surrey Mirror

The Mulberry Restaurant at Lanshott Manor has scooped three awards in this year's toptable 'top 100 restaurants'

1/01/10 - Businesses rank Business Link's success in latest customer survey

Business Edge

Karen Hanton of toptable.com said: "Business Link is a service that is performing extremely well and delivering fantastic free support and advice to businesses at a critical time."

28/01/10 - Where the food's the star

Bexley Times

Chapter One Restaurant in Locksbottom has come in the top hundred of 'toptable.com' best English eateries

26/01/10 - Make it a Valentine's Day to remember

Sunderland Echo

Wining and Dining - ... it's worth checking out restaurant websites such as toptable.com..

26/01/10 - Chaps, get your chops round this

Metro UK

Try Me: toptable.com has its 2010 restaurant awards out, judged by its 3million diners. Read more

24/01/10 - Google Chrome advertising

Google

Throughout December Google used toptable in their poster advertising for the web browser, Chrome. View the advert here.

23/01/10 - City of Love - Paris

Daily Post, Wales

But the weekend's culinary highlight was Le Bamboche restaurant... we'd found it through toptable.com, a great way to uncover good places to eat, with reviews from customers. It was the site's 2009 top international restaurant and it can't be long until Michelin stars follow.

23/01/10 - Crunch Lunch - Theo Randall

Daily Telegraph, Weekend

lunchtime deal: £27 for three courses (£23 for two), with a glass of Prosecco if reservation made through toptable.com

22/01/10 - Gidleigh Park voted best restaurant in Top 100 list

Eat Out Magazine

Online restaurant reservation service has announced Gidleigh Park winner of the Top Diner Rated award. Read more

22/01/10 - Caines' Chagford haunt wins hat-trick of European awards

Herald Express, Torquay

A top south Devon establishment has scooped a hat-trick of national accolades in awards held by European dining website, toptable.com

21/01/10 - Restaurants make top 100

Bexley Times

Chefs are celebrating cooking up a storm after featuring amongst the top 100 restaurants in the country. Chapter One in Farnborough and Gurkha's Inn, Greenwich both made it on to toptable.com's annual list of the best eateries in England.

17/01/10 - Top Nosh

Plymouth Independent

Gidleigh Park Restaurant won this year's top diner-rated award in the toptable Top 100 Restaurant Awards

16/01/10 -Italian and Indian top search survey

Northampton Chronicle & Echo

An online survey has revealed that we are a nation of pasta and curry lovers. The findings were part of a survey by toptable.com into the favourite restaurants of three million diners who booked and at a toptable restaurant

16/01/10 - Website award for city eatery

Yorkshire Evening Post

A Leeds restaurant has won a top award after a survey by eatery website toptable.com. Kendells Bistro won the hidden gem category and top restaurant for meals priced under £25 in the toptable Top 100 Restaurant Awards.

15/01/10 - There's no finer diners

Daily Record

Two Scots restaurants scooped first prize at the toptable.com top 100 awards... Restaurant Martin Wishart won best chef against competition including Gordon Ramsay and the 110 Restaurant in Edinburgh was voted the best value for money.

15/01/10 - Pub makes the grade with toptable

Burton Mail

A village pub has been rated one of the 'best value for money' restaurants in the UK by Europe's largest dining community and online restaurant reservation service toptable.com. ... the Black Horse in Appleby Magna.

15/01/10 - Further top honour for moors hotel

Express and Echo, Exeter

Gidleigh Park Restaurant has won this year's top diner-rated award... several voters in the toptable.com survey said it was the best meal they had ever eaten

15/01/10 - And Finally

Northants Evening Telegraph

Most diners search the web for Italian food according to an online survey by toptable.com

15/01/10 - A taste for The Case

East Anglican Daily Times

A Suffolk restaurant has been rated among the best in the country in a prestigious competition. After being unearthed as the country's 'hidden gem' last year, The Case Restaurant with Rooms, near Sudbury has tasted further success in the coveted toptable.com Top 100 Restaurants.

15/01/10 - We all love to nosh pasta

Daily Sport

Britain is a nation of pasta and curry lovers according to a survey by toptable.com

15/01/10 - Restaurant a hidden gem

Yorkshire Post

A Leeds restaurant has won a top award in a survey by toptable.com into the favourite restaurants of three million diners who booked and ate at a toptable restaurant during 2009. Kendells Bistro won the hidden gem category and was top restaurant under £25. Read more

15/01/10 - 1st Pasta past the post

The Sun

Eateries offering 'British' food come only fourth and 'English' a mere tenth in a list compiled by online restaurant reservation site toptable.com.

15/01/10 - Past and curry top dishes for Brits

Shropshire Star

The findings were part of a survey by toptable.com into the favourite restaurants of three million diners who booked and ate at one of toptable's 5,000 restaurants during 2009.

15/01/10 - Past and Curry our top eating choices

Press and Journal, Aberdeen

Most diners search toptable for Italian restaurants, followed by Indian and French, while English cuisine comes in 10th.

15/01/10 - Eating Out

Western Morning News

Congratulations to Michael Caines and his Gidleigh Park Restaurant. The accolades have been coming in thick and fast in recent days, crowned yesterday with a 'people's award' voted for by members of Europe's largest dining community - toptable.com

15/01/10 - Restaurant wins award for its 'amazing' food

Western Morning News

Gidleigh Park Hotel's restaurant in Chagford won this year's top diner-rated award in toptables Top 100 Restaurants

14/01/10 - Gidleigh Park voted best UK restaurant by toptable users

bighospitality

toptable users have voted Gidleigh Park Restaurant in Chagford, Devon the best restaurant in the UK, as the online restaurant reservation service unveils its Top 100 Restaurant Awards. Read more

14/01/10 - Pasta and curry top our eating-out choices

The Independent

Britain is a nation of pasta and curry lovers, an online survey showed today. Read more

14/01/10 - Brits ditch English grub for pasta and curry

Metro.co.uk

Brits have ditched their own nation's cuisine for Italian and Indian dished instead, an online survey has revealed. Read more

14/01/10 - Michelin-starred Gidleigh Park named best in Britain by toptable

caterersearch

The restaurant in Chagford, Devon, won glowing reviews from the website's members... Read more

1/01/10 - Multimap, Thomson and toptable launch Vodaphone apps

New Media Age

Mapping service Multimap, business directory Thomson and restaurant booking agent toptable are launching apps for the Vodafone 360 platform

13/01/10 - The 60-second briefing

Daily Mail

Deal of the Week: two-for-one and 50pc off through toptable.com

8/1/10 - What lies ahead in 2010?

Caterer and Hotelkeeper

Technology will play a bigger role than ever... with the likes of toptable launching location based services Read more

1/1/10 - Free and Easy

Daily Record

If you're skint after Christmas, get this lot for nothing...and look out for two-for-one offers, toptable.com guides you to the best deals

1/1/10 - Have A Richer New Year

Daily Express

Live for Half Price - for example, eat out at good restaurants via toptable.com...Read more