New Yorkers like to go out. A lot. A website aptly called Outalot allows fast and easy browsing of three nightlife basics: restaurants, bars, and movies (Gridskipper calls it "menupages-meets-yelp").
The Google Map based-site lists restaurants by cuisine, bars by type, and provides local cinemas' showtimes. You can bookmark your favorites (and check out your friends') and green thumbs up/down symbols quickly signify how others' feel about an establishment.
Though many New Yorkers pride themselves on knowing exactly where to go when, others spend too much time strolling the sidewalk. Remarking that they want to know "what's around them and where to go next" and will "most likely make these decisions based on friends' recommendations," co-founder Joe Cohen explains Outalot is trying to make it easier for people to browse that information. Or, as Thrillist put it, it's a "highly evolved method of terrain mapping for your friends: lazy codependence on others."
The site covers all five boroughs and is accessible via mobile phones. Fun fact: Cohen and the other co-founder Jesse Boyes used to work at Vindigo.
