The standard reply around our house to the above question is, "I don’t know." A couple of years ago, I modified a random number generator that a student worker had made for class so that it spit out random restaurants in the area to help answer the question that could plague us for an hour. Someone has made a Web 2.0 version of that program, but much more helpful.
‘At Miniature Cube, you tell them your location, the restaurant style, your budget and the cuisine, and click on the Decide! button. The site will spit back a restaurant decision for you. If you don’t like that decision, use the Re-decide? sidebar to have the site make another decision for you. The site is still in its infancy, so the reviews are are sparse. Hopefully the site will grow, and it will become more useful. Only time will tell if it will be another bust.
I like it, it certainly has potential. The only problem is there aren’t many restaurants in its database yet. Some day when I am bored I think I’ll put in a bunch of Schaumburg restaurants. For now, it thinks that Morton’s is the only expensive steakhouse in Schaumburg, and Olive Garden is the only sit-down italian restaurant. Oh and there are no sit-down mexican restaurants.