by Mordy Golding
I do enough traveling to have been named a Road Warrior by American Way Magazine, back in 2006. I'm also Jewish (Orthodox) and eat kosher. Put the two together and the result is me usually trying to figure out where I can grab a bite to eat as I travel the world. There's a great kosher restaurant database that you can find and search through at www.shamash.org, but the folks at Rusty Brick have created an app called Kosher which taps into the power of your iPhone.
The Kosher app is actually linked to the shamash.org database, so the listings are current, and when you launch the Kosher app, it connects to the database to update all listings. In the Kosher app, you can choose to either search for a specific restaurant, or my favorite feature — click the Find Near Me button. After detecting your GPS location, the Kosher app will list any kosher restaurants or food establishments in your vicinity. You'll get exact distances from where you are, basic information such as kosher certification (hashgacha), price, and even rating and comments from other travelers. With a single click you can call the restaurant or get a location and directions with Google maps.
In the past two weeks, Terry White and I have been traveling in Europe and I used this app to find a great kosher restaurant in Munich, Germany, and several great places in Paris, France. In addition, the app also sports a list of kosher certification logos and symbols, and even displays the proper blessings to recite before eating various kinds of foods.
Kosher
Find the nearest Kosher restaurant based on your location from over 2,000 restaurants in their database.
- Ronnie Schwartz
- Get on App Store
- $4.99
All info was collected on 19th March, 2010 when the app was reviewed.
About Mordy
This must have come out after our trip in San Jose. Great find! I will certainly get some mileage out of this one
This is a great app. I have been using it since it was released. They also have a great siddur app that with the iPhones GPS will tell you where the closest minyan is from your location.
this post is very usefull thx!
Who do we get in contact with to submit information on hashgachas and new or closed locations?
Ari, all of the listings come directly from the database maintained by http://www.shamash.com/kosher/ so you can submit information there.
For Android users – check out KosherNearMe for a great Kosher Location App.