A project I’ve been working on with Fangohr slowly for the past few months is getting close to being finished. Featuring the visual and identity design efforts of Florian Fangohr and the incredibly detailed map and landmarks illustration work of Carlos Ancalmo. We’ve been quietly building what we hope will be hottest (or at least pretty cool) and most honest restaurant review website in New York.

With no revenue model to speak of, Food Tyrant is the result of our clients passionate interest in finding and enjoying the best restaurant experiences in New York.

We’ve built this webapp on CakePHP with traditional clicks and then extended it with the hijax unobtrusive approach for adding client-side behavior. The Google Maps API has been massaged into a map interface that we feel effectively communicates Food Tyrant’s identity.

Some of the screenshots here have been taken from a recent development build and may not reflect the final and most recent look & feel. If you’re interested in being notified when the site is live, stay tuned here. We plan on having a splash page up shortly.

Dan’s roof, originally uploaded by naterkane.

I don’t know why, but to me this looks like Jesus.

Ass effects?, originally uploaded by naterkane.

You’ve got to be kidding me.

My tree gets a facelift, originally uploaded by naterkane.

All the trees along my block are getting a facelift today. I’m so
excited!

Twitter just accidentally turned Japanese, originally uploaded by naterkane.

after updating my settings, i started turning japanese.