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App Description
Download the application for free and purchase each city volume of reviews for only $3.99 each, with a lifetime of free updates!
The definitive guide to eating locally and authentically in several of the world’s greatest food cities, including Istanbul, Athens, Barcelona, Shanghai, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City – with more to come! Each city volume within the application is purchased separately for $3.99 with free updates to the database forever. Beyond the kebab, souvlaki, tapas, soup dumpling, feijoada or taco – and what you will find listed in most guidebooks for these cities – lies a wide range of unique regional cuisines and restaurants with hints of cooking from all around. Most of these spots, though, are found far off the eaten track. With Culinary Backstreets as your trusty guide, you will know what to eat and where to eat it.
Application features:
-Content provided by Culinarybackstreets.com, the online global guide to local eats.
-The absolute best of Culinary Backstreets’ local correspondents’ eating experiences: hundreds of opinionated reviews of local and authentic restaurants, street food carts, bakeries, dessert shops and more.
-Search functions and integrated maps that make finding the perfect meal easy.
-Vivid photos of food and the people who make it.
-Content always available in off-line mode.
About Culinary Backstreets:
Partnering up with some of the most knowledgeable and passionate food writers and bloggers across the globe, Culinarybackstreets.com is a hotline for the hungry traveler, bedside reading for the foodie voyeur, and a heavily bookmarked index for those who live among the culinary backstreets featured in our pages. Dispatching from Istanbul, Athens, Shanghai, Barcelona, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo and Tbilisi (with more cities on the way), Culinarybackstreets.com is a community of readers and writers who follow their stomachs to the next destination.
Praise for Culinary Backstreets’ Istanbul app:
“Finally, a guide that truly shows you how to eat like a local in Istanbul!”
-Anya Von Bremzen, contributing editor at Travel+Leisure, author of “The New Spanish Table”
“…. The insiders guide to the back streets, hidden gems and tasty bites in the glorious old city on the Bosphorus. I love it.”
Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent, NBC NEWS
“Affectionate, funny and delicious. A must-have road map to the tastiest secrets in this beautiful city. I never leave home without it.”
-Ivan Watson, International Foreign Correspondent, CNN
“The brains (and stomachs) ….you want guiding you through the vast culinary treasures of one of the world's most interesting eating cities.”
-Seth Kugel, Frugal Traveler, New York Times
“Brilliant insider guide to the best eats in Istanbul.”
-The Guardian
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App Changes
- September 01, 2012 Initial release
- June 28, 2013 New version 1.2
- July 15, 2013 New version 1.21
- November 06, 2015 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
- November 08, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99
- November 25, 2015 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
- November 26, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $4.99
- December 06, 2015 New version 2.0
- December 06, 2015 Price decrease: $4.99 -> FREE!
- February 16, 2016 New version 2.1
- February 24, 2016 New version 2.2
- July 11, 2016 New version 2.3
- November 08, 2016 New version 2.3.1