Google Maps can become your best ally for find the best restaurants when you’re on vacation in a city you don’t know or when you’re tired of going to eat in the same places and you want to discover new places.
If you want to learn how to squeeze Google Maps recommendations and search, don’t miss our selection of nine tips and tricks for discovering the best restaurants with Google Maps.
Manage your zones
To discover new places around us, the best thing to do is manage your zones to tell Google Maps where you usually go to eat and dine away from home. For that, we only have to go Settings > Manage your zones and add the domains that interest you and those that don’t interest you. Once done, Google Maps can send us notifications if it detects that there is a very popular new site in one of our areas.
Manage your food preferences
To improve the recommendations, we can personalize them from Settings > Manage your preferences. There we can configure our type of food in case we are vegans, vegetarians, celiacs, etc… In the section ‘I am interested’ O ‘It does not interest me’ can you say the theme the type of food you like (Chinese food, Mexican food, hamburger restaurants, etc…) as well as sites that interest you or not. It is also important always review sites where you went
Check affinity
By setting the themes and sites you like you will have configured your affinity. This means that when you search on Google Maps, you will be able to see in each site’s listing a percentage with the probability that you like this sitebased on other similar sites you liked by rating them and because they match the type of food you like.
Use the filters to refine your search
When searching for places to eat, Google Maps offers us a few filters very practical, since they allow us to order by personal game, filter by price, type of cuisine or rating. So we can leave out any sites that are out of our budget or closed at that time.
Find the restaurants that serve your favorite dish
Google Maps, in addition to allowing you to search for restaurants by type of cuisine, also allows look for food dishes simply by typing your name in the search engine. Google Maps will show all the places where your menu or reviews mention that food dish.
Search Reviews
In Google Maps you can also search local reviews. For this you have to go Comments and in the section “Users often mention” show all labels to show the Forget. By touching the search icon, you can search for reviews to discover reviews that exist on a certain dish, prices, or any topic you want to see their review.
Find out the best time to go
If you don’t like queuing when you go out for lunch or dinner, you can ask before you go rush hours. This graph is in the tab abstract from the site folder, and there we will see for each day of the week the busiest hours.
Discover its most popular dishes and its menu
If it’s the first time you visit a site, you can consult its popular dishes to find out what people ask most often. This information can be found in the tab Menu > Highlights. There we also have the section for see menu of the restaurant, with direct access to the restaurant menu or photographs of the menu taken by users.
Consult the recommendations
Finally, to discover more Google Maps recommendations, we can click on the tab To explore to see the latest news from our region with personalized recommendations. There we will see user reviews related to us with sites we might like.
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