Kosher2Go is another restaurant finder application for the Palm Pre. This app restricts the range of restaurants to ones that serve kosher food. This app has no search feature, instead it finds the nearest kosher restaurants relative to your current position. Unfortunately, there’s no ability to fallback on an alternate way to enter your location if your GPS is turned off or is not working for other reasons. It also offers a “Search Again” feature that presumably re-polls the GPS to get a bearing if there’s a problem. When you launch the app, it immediately discovers your current location with the GPS, and pulls up a list of relevant restaurants and cafes. The interface is very well done and is really tuned to performing this single task well.
You can sort the results list based on distance, ratings, and even alphabetically. The default sort method is by distance. The app also pulls up ratings and reviews for each restaurant. You can see the address and telephone number and initiate a call from within the app. Restaurants are also classified based on the type of cuisine served and a link to the restaurant’s website is offered if one exists. “$” symbols are used to indicate how pricey a restaurant is. You cannot write your own reviews or rate restaurants with this application, and there’s no way to see a map with your current location and the restaurant’s location visible – you’ll have to pull up Google Maps separately to see that. This is one of the more specialized Palm Pre Apps and does one thing very well – find the nearest Kosher restaurants.
