Over the next couple days you will notice a dramatic expansion of our Restaurant search product as we index over 250,000 restaurants throughout the United States, including Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco.

People searching for things to do can already book reservations with OpenTable’s 6,400 restaurants and simply search for restaurants by cuisine, price, or distance from an address. With the additions, we’re covering just about every interest with chains including Jamba Juice, Starbuck’s, and McDonald’s, larger restaurants such as Outback Steakhouse, Chipotle Mexican Grill, and Applebee’s and excellent choices for dates or business dinners with Jardiniere in San Francisco, TRU in Chicago, or Chanterelle in New York.

Planning dinner and a movie? We’ve had movies covered with thousands of theaters and millions of show times; now discover much more cuisine to wet your appetite.

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With Summer well on its way fairs and festivals from Boston to San Jose, we’ve partnered with Google to release schedules of summer events through Google Calendar.

A wonderful scheduling and organization platform, Google Calendar helps you keep track of life’s important events. With the launch of a new Calendar Gallery yesterday, Google has made available to you various schedules and things to do, in particular, Summer events. Leveraging Zvents’ events in Chicago as well as those available through our partners in San Jose, Detroit, and Orange County California, we have your summer stocked with art fairs, music festivals, celebrations and block parties to keep you entertained.

From the start, we wanted our Google Calendar™ web-based calendar service to take all the work out of “managing your calendar,” and a key piece of that was making it easy to search among public calendars for interesting events – whether it’s a local children’s story hour or the San Antonio Spurs schedule – and add them to your personal calendar with one click.

Beyond the themed event calendars available through Google’s gallery, hundreds of unique events and schedules are already, readily accessible and easily added to your Calendar with the click of a button. Whether you want the summer planned or prefer to pick and choose what’s right for you, Google Calendar will organize your life, and we’ll be here, helping you discover things to do.

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We’ve had our heads down for weeks; prepping what I think is the best Movie experience online. As your search engine for things to do, it was obvious to us that while discovering festivals, concerts, and dance and cooking classes satiates most of your desires, we all take time out to catch a movie at the local Cineplex. So, building on the experience you’ve come to love from Zvents, we rolled out a tremendous cinema database promoting almost a million movie show times at more than 7,000 theaters throughout the United States and Canada.

Theaters are automatically sorted by distance from you, ensuring relevant options as you search for movies by genre, actor, rating, or city. We’ve left no film uncovered, with the latest in action and animation to more selective tastes for fans of the classics. So find your films, become a critic, and Discover Movies.

Oh, by the way, make an event of that night at the movies. We’ve added restaurant recommendations near your favorite theaters leaving you no excuse but dinner and drinks on that date!

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