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New Restaurants (2.8.10)

If you thought last weekend was action-packed, with that whole big football game thing, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. This weekend there’s really something for everyone as the Winter Olympics start up, Valentine’s Day brings couples together, President’s Day sends people out of the city, and Chinese New Year celebrations usher in the Year of the Tiger. So with all that excitement approaching, you might want to stay in, save your energy, and order online from one of these new SeamlessWeb restaurants:

Baoguette – 120 Christopher Street NYC (Vietnamese)
Rye House – 11 West 17th Street NYC (American/Pub)
Tiffin Wallah – 127 East 28th Street NYC (Indian)
Qoo Robata – 367 Metropolitan Avenue BROOKLYN (Japanese)
Shachi’s Arepas Restaurant – 197 Havemeyer Street BROOKLYN (Venezuelan)
Quality Fried Chicken – 9418 Sutphin Boulevard QUEENS (Chicken/American)

Sloppy Bao from Baoguette

If you’d like to get out for a walk and pick up your order, you can do that at Baoguette, Rye House, or Tiffin Wallah!

Have a restaurant that you would like to see added to the site? Send us an e-mail and we’ll make sure to do our best to bring them aboard.

Posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 by Rich in New Restaurants | Comments (1)

SeamlessWeb Sunday: The Winner(s)

We had a number of excellent entries for our SeamlessWeb Sunday contest, but only one party is going to get $200 for food and that party is…Nicole’s! Her winning story appears at the bottom of this post. But you know what? In our book, all of you are winners. And because of that, you are ALL getting 10% off any order over $50 on Sunday:

10% off any order over $50*

Promotion Code: SEAMLESSSUNDAY

Expires February 7, 2010

Now read how Nicole’s “girls-only” tradition and impressive football knowledge won her the contest:

This Sunday, I will be hosting my 4th annual Big Game party. And there are 3 things that make my party different from any other party:

Only girls are allowed. No boyfriends, no male friends, and no male pets even (I do have a female cat who is very welcome though!)

We only drink beer. No frilly drinks like “Nicole’s Kick Off Cocktails.” We do have both kinds of beer though. Bud and Bud Light. Period.

No pink jerseys are allowed. If you like a player, you buy his real jersey. Pink sweatbands, however, are allowed because they wore those during the season.

At this point you might think that this party sounds pretty sweet, but not a winner, so keep this mind…all the girls attending, including me, grew up in homes without men who knew anything about football whatsoever. My brother can’t even throw a ball. We all love this game and taught ourselves everything. For example, I think the Cover Two can be exploited by multiple deep routes forcing a lone safety away from coverage. And I believe that if you don’t have a massive NT, you shouldn’t being using a 3-4 defense. I had to learn the game all on my own! Now I run my brother’s fantasy football team and he gets the credit.

So pick me for all the girls out there who are actual fans and holding it down.

*Code is valid only for SeamlessWeb personal orders greater than $50 that are placed on February 7, 2010.

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 by Rich in Promotions! | Comments (0)

Twitter Trivia: Free Coffee Recap

Each week on Twitter, @SeamlessWeb (that’s us) runs a trivia contest where the first person to answer each question correctly earns a $10 SeamlessWeb discount code. We usually have 4 or 5 questions spread throughout the day, all related to a weekly theme, so there are plenty of chances to win. Here’s a recap of this week’s questions…and answers.

This week’s theme: COFFEE (in honor of Free Coffee Days)

Which famed 18th century composer wrote a cantata about coffee and in which city did this piece premiere? Bach that $10 reward into the driveway for @BoobsRadley
Rank these 3 countries in terms of tons of green coffee produced from most to least: Uganda, United States, Vietnam. @BeeeejEsq got this one the quickest
Which Sultan of which Empire banned coffee for a period during the 17th century? @poopslikedoggy knew that Turkish Coffee wasn’t always legal!
If you could ban one drink in the US today, what would it be and why? Budweiser Chelada got our vote courtesy of @ComfortablySmug
According to legend, which famed American Revolution-era event most helped to create a coffee-drinking nation? Let’s go to @AvocadoRivalry for the answer

Follow @SeamlessWeb for your chance to win $10 in next week’s Twitter Trivia.

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 by Rich in Promotions! | Comments (0)

Today’s Order: Press Restaurant

The Order:

All by my lonesome for lunch, I wanted to keep things simple. A little menu browsing led me over to Press Restaurant. It doesn’t get much simpler than five main courses (all wraps!), and a five-star rating (one for every wrap?) meant I was sold. My selection? The Steak Wrap. Surprise! Once you select a wrap, you get to choose everything about it, so my order was really just getting started. I selected the plain wrap, and added tomatoes, crispy onions, and shredded mozzarella cheese to my rare steak. Press is a pretty health-conscious place, so I could have gone with a whole wheat wrap or even made it a salad, but I thought ignoring the barbeque sauce and honey mustard was healthy enough. Then again, I added Hand Cut Fries, so who am I kidding. The things I do for you all…

The Meal:

The food didn’t come fast, but it did come on time, and with snazzy packaging to boot:

Pretty cool, right?

The problem? The food wasn’t that hot. In particular, the fries were more warm than hot and more soggy than crispy. After a quick hit from the microwave they were better and I could tell that the flavor (read: salt) was definitely there, but it just further stressed the “get ‘em while they’re hot” lesson that McDonald’s fries first taught me all those years ago. As for the wrap? After being heated up, it was delicious. The steak was clearly the real deal, and I loved the melted cheese, while the onions really made the whole thing pop with flavor. Size-wise, it wasn’t huge, but it was certainly enough food for lunch. Portion control, people, portion control.

It's a wrap...with fries

So to wrap things up, Press Restaurant is a lovely lunch location, offering high-quality, make-your-own wraps that are sure to hit the spot for any diner.

Check out Press Restaurant’s menu and feel free to give us recommendations for future orders in the comments.

Posted on Friday, February 5th, 2010 by Rich in Today's Order | Comments (0)

SeamlessWebber of the Week: Tom

Every Thursday, a different SeamlessWeb customer tells us about how he or she orders from the site. This week we have Tom, a man who dares to admit that not only does he not like bacon, it’s actually his least favorite food!

Name: Tom

Age: 25

Occupation: Graduate Student, “Doing Science”

How and When Did You Discover SeamlessWeb? I met SeamlessWeb through friends.

Where Do You Use SW? The couch, sometimes my bed.

Favorite Kind of Food: Is ice cream a food? What about Guinness? (Ed: Better yet, how about Guinness Ice Cream?!)

Least Favorite Kind of Food: Bacon, and yes, I feel terrible about that. (Ed: It takes a strong man to admit this fact, so I applaud you for it. But let’s agree to disagree.)

Favorite Place(s) to Order From on SW? Murray’s Bagels. There is no greater luxury than bagels delivered to your door on a Sunday morning…pre-sliced.

Least Favorite Thing About Calling Restaurants? Apparently I’m very difficult to understand on the phone. It probably has something to do with the hour at which I order bagels on a Sunday morning.

Closest Previous Brush with Internet Fame? According to Google, some kid with my name is a great high school basketball player.

Favorite Celebrity Chef? It’s a toss-up between Masahuru Morimoto and Elzar.

Favorite Cartoon Growing Up? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ed: Did you know that in some other countries it was called Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles?)

What Superpower Do You Wish You Had? Super-not falling asleep on my desk after lunch.

In the Past Year, What’s the Latest You’ve Stayed Up and Why? 4 a.m., because that’s when they kick you out.

Plans for Tonight? A Wii Sports Resort party followed by a Haiti fundraiser. It’s a compromise between my inner 12-year-old and my inner adult.

E-mail us at myseamlessweb@seamlessweb.com if you’d like to be the next Webber of the Week or if you’d like to suggest a friend!

Posted on Thursday, February 4th, 2010 by Rich in SeamlessWebber of the Week | Comments (0)

SeamlessWeb on the Web (2.3.10)

Here at SeamlessWeb, we work with thousands of restaurants and we love them all equally. But we’re only human, and when blogs and newspapers write about our restaurants, some of them temporarily become more equal than others. Here’s a sampling of where SeamlessWeb restaurants made some news last week (there was a lot about Free Coffee Days):

Free Coffee Alert - Midtown Lunch

Midtown’s top food blog makes sure its readers know how to start their days

Deal Alert! Free Coffee! - 89th and Broke

Really, is there a better deal than free?

Free and Almost Free - Grub Street

Ok, so they combined FCD with chocolate. We can’t really complain about that though, cause we’d like to do that too.

On The East Side, General Tso is Routed - The New York Times

It’s not all about coffee. Check out this glowing review of Szechuan Chalet in the $25 and under section

Check back next week to read about some more SeamlessWeb spots!

Posted on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 by Rich in SeamlessWeb on the Web | Comments (0)

Popularity Contest: The Day of the Deli

A classic deli, two Asian treats, and a sandwich sure to fill you up. Here’s your ordering inspiration for this week:

Most bookmarked restaurant this week:

Sarge’s Delicatessen, 548 Third Avenue NYC

A Murray Hill staple for nearly 50 years, Sarge’s is a 24-hour no-nonsense place that’s one of the best Jewish delis in a city famed for its Jewish delis. Start with the matzoh ball soup and move on to pastrami, corned beef, or a COMBO sandwich and you’ll stay home happy.

Most liked items this week:

Shrimp Tempura Maki from Ashiya Sushi & Japanese Restaurant
Bangkok Chicken from Thailand Cafe
BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich from Sanford’s Restaurant

The East Village and Astoria get some love this week, and why not, right? These dishes all sound great, but if I had to pick one of the three, I’m craving that pulled pork on a Kaiser roll…

Hopefully these popular items gave you some ideas for your next online order, but if not, all you have to do is make a few well-timed clicks and next time we could be featuring your favorites!

Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Rich in Popularity Contest | Comments (0)

Make it a SeamlessWeb Sunday

There are just two more days to enter our SeamlessWeb Sunday contest and win $200 in free food for THIS Sunday, February 7!

How do you enter and win?

Tell us EITHER your most memorable Big Game party experience OR your best Big Game party tradition*

Submit your answers via email or leave a comment and our panel of judges will consider your creativity and hilarity. We’re looking forward to your stories!

SeamlessWeb Sunday: Win $200 in free food!

*See here for Terms and Conditions.

Posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 by Rich in Promotions! | Comments (1)

New Restaurants (2.1.10)

It’s the first day of February, it’s the first day of Free Coffee Days, and it’s the last day before we find out how long winter is gonna last this year! So since all of our first-time SeamlessWeb users (code = FREECOFFEE) are wondering where they should use that $5 discount, here are some of the newest restaurants that they can order from:

Nero D’Avola – 46 Gansevoort Street NYC (Italian)
Oaxaca Mexican Grill – 245 Park Avenue NYC (Mexican)
Piada – 601 Lexington Avenue NYC (Italian Sandwiches)
Amin – 92 7th Avenue BROOKLYN (Indian)
Sonali – 4413 Queens Boulevard QUEENS (Indian)
Stacks Pancake House and Cafe – 506 Washington Street HOBOKEN (Diner)

Spaghetti con Vongole and Zafferano from Nero D'Avola

Feel like picking up your order? Try out Nero D’Avola, Oaxaca Mexican Grill, or Piada. Maybe you can even grab a coffee while you’re out.

Have a restaurant that you would like to see added to the site? Send us an e-mail and we’ll make sure to do our best to bring them aboard.

Posted on Monday, February 1st, 2010 by Rich in New Restaurants | Comments (1)

Free Coffee Days are Here Again!

Everyone’s favorite SeamlessWeb February tradition is back starting on Monday, February 1st. And Free Coffee Days 2010 is bigger and better this year, featuring 150,000 cups of coffee and more than 60 participating restaurants! Here’s what you need to know:

Who: You and everyone you know
What: Free coffee (150,000 cups!)
Where: all over Manhattan (details here)
When: Weekdays in February (details here)
Why: You drink coffee every morning and would rather not pay for it.
How: Walk into a participating restaurant and ask for coffee courtesy of SeamlessWeb. Keep wallet in pocket. Drink and repeat.
Catch: None.

Wanna share the love? Use #freecoffee and take a picture of your cup when you post on Twitter and tell any first-time SeamlessWeb orderers to take $5 off when they try out the site:

$5 off any first order*

Promotion Code: FREECOFFEE

Expires March 31, 2010

*Discount is good only on delivery orders for first-time SeamlessWeb users on personal (non-corporate) accounts. Minimum order of $5 required for use. Expires 3/31/2010.

Posted on Friday, January 29th, 2010 by Rich in Promotions! | Comments (1)

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