Zomato, An Indian's new guide to Food

I'm sure all my Indian readers out here must have heard about this website, Zomato. It's a website, which was started by a group of teens or just graduated teens, with a simple aim. Finding good food easily.
On the website/blog (Can't seem to remember where) They put up stories of how they met the first team and other interesting stuff, like They met their coder for the site in front of the IIT-D Canteen who was wearing a T which said "I will code for free food"
Interesting stories aside, here are my views about the website

The Positives

• The idea was great. India being a truly diverse nation having very urbanized and semi-rural areas which are hard to get to, creating a directory listing the restaurants was a hard task. Socializing the same to get the attention was to. But after that, the site spread like wildfire and the Foodie's who first came to the site never went back. Yes it was that helpful.
• Personal Messages. A feature I've been looking forward to from quite some time. Yes if you likdo is difficult. Which is why they organize meet-up's. Meet your fellow foodies who share a foodie's taste, and well he likes yours in return you can PM each other, and meet up! There's wasn't anyway you could communicate before on site but now there is. Of course spam won't be taken lightly by the Mod team of Zomato but this is one of the new additions I've liked!
• The website has seen many face-lifts. The latest one being too good. With a big cover of the great good from the city, you can get the picture at a glance and of course, on clicking on the picture will take you to said cuisine/place.
• The Top 25 and the Hall Of Fame. Yes, The Top 25 is there from a long time, but of course has changed it's rules to accommodate more and more reviewers coming in everyday. And there are badges also associated with it which you'll be tagged with if you meet the criterion. The Hall of Fame, or as they describe it, 'The Guru Level' consists of all the reviewers who are well, at par with the others. Brilliant mouth-watering words showered for each restaurant they step-in.
• Rating Distribution. I love this one! Go to a profile and on the right, you'll see a rating distribution. It basically tells you how much the person has rated all of the restaurants he's visited. 

The Negatives

• The Android app has not been updated since the new over-haul of the website in June. So the notifications are not clickable anymore. Not even the previous ones like Thanking and Followed. (Update: the app is now updated, somewhere between the night of 19th and the morning of 20th October)
• Subscription. Well what's the point of this anymore? Before you used to get the updates of the person you had subscribed/followed to in your notifications. Now it does not. So what's the point anymore? I mean you follow said person. The number increases on said person's profile, That is pretty much it now?
  I'd like it if either the notifications come back or the whole thing of following is closed (not likely) because it doesn't have a point anymore.
• The Cost for 2 filled up by many resturants isn't what you'd get in the real world. I mean yes, Zomato isn't directly related to it, but in most of the restaurants I've eaten there was a big gap in the two. Some places who had the cost for 2 at 600 came up to a whooping 900 at times and as low as 300 for 2. Yes, It's an approximate value but this much gap?
• Adding a photo to an already existing review. Yes I forgot to add a couple of pictures to it. Zomato won't let me add one again. A bug probably.

Well that's my take on Zomato of now. 

The site? Awesome! 

The idea, I don't think I even need to comment on the success of it's brilliance.

The Simplicity? Absolutely. Clean and a beautiful user interface.
This site has gone places. if you know what I mean. And part from some minor drawbacks, it's a good place to find good food from!