Kosher Food and Restaurant Mapper
I’m betting that most of the Kosherblog audience knows about the Shamash.org kosher restaurant database, right? Of course you do. Have you heard of Google Maps? The other day, I was thinking of a great new web-service combining the two – and then I discovered that it had already been done. check out the Kosher Food and Restaurant Mapper at PilotYid.com. If you choose a metro-area (and optionally an address), the service will show you a map of all the kosher establishments that Shamash.org has listed for the area. Neato! (Works considerably better for, say, Boston – with 44 locations, than it did for New York City, with 134 locations.) Gets my vote for Best Web-Based Tool for the Kosher Traveler.
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Very Very Very cool.
Except for Long Island. Somehow it mapped one restaurant as being in the middle of the Persian Gulf! No clue what happenned!
Yeah, it seems like a hostile place for a deli.
It doesn’t have everything for the Boston area. For example, the Shaw’s on Rte 27 in Sharon (near 95) has a kosher bakery (Vaad), and the Stop & Shop near me in North Andover has some kosher meat & cheese, including a kosher slicer in the deli. I believe the Stop & Shop in Bedford also offers kosher deli, and many of Market Basket’s prepackaged bakery items are kosher.
The data is coming from the Shamash.org database. If you want to add a listing, contact them.
The map doesn’t load on my Mac, so I’ll have to try a PC or a Mac with a more recent OS. But what a great idea this is! I live in the Boston area and am always looking for kosher markets and restaurants. I bet the map shows a lot of places on Harvard Street in Brookline. The Butcherie, Zaftigs, Rubin’s, Kupel’s, and many others are in that area.
Actually, it is true, as a previous entry says, that many markets offer kosher food, so I doubt this map will encompass all of these places.
Can’t wait to see the map!
Uh…Zaftigs is treif. Very treif. They serve meat and dairy. And they don’t even claim to use kosher meat.
And Kupel’s is actually not kosher either. Shomer shabbat? Yes. Pareve? Yes. But, not kosher supervised, so not kosher.
Since when is Kupel’s not kosher? Last time I was there, they were under the KVH. When did that change?
Of course Kupel’s is kosher, Simon… what’s your source for this accusation?
There is a similar program coming to the kosher restaurant database on Kosher Travel Info (http://www.koshertravelinfo.com).
It is already in place for the Kosher Travel Info Minyan database here:
http://koshertravelinfo.com/daven/daven.html