Eater Has a New Look

In case you haven’t seen, we’ve a brand new look! Simply forward of our twentieth anniversary, which we’ll have a good time beginning subsequent month, we’ve given ourselves a refresh throughout the board: on our web site, throughout social platforms, on our newsletters, and shortly, on our app.

First, let’s begin with what hasn’t modified. Twenty years in, we stay dedicated to overlaying the place to eat and why it issues. Eating places are a life power for thus many communities, and throughout 23 metropolis websites, we cowl the ins and outs of the eating scene and make day by day suggestions for one of the best locations to eat through our thoughtfully curated maps. On Eater.com, we zoom out for a nationwide (and generally international) have a look at meals tradition, bringing our eye for way of life tendencies into how we cook dinner and entertain at dwelling. And that very same sensibility interprets to our behind-the-scenes video protection on YouTube, social-first movies, in addition to our newsletter-exclusive content material.

We haven’t had a wholesale replace of our website design since 2017, when the aim was very a lot the identical: “Make it simpler for Eater’s viewers to determine the place to eat.” Quick ahead eight years, and our crew, led by affiliate artistic director Nat Belkov and Vox Media’s product and design specialists, has checked out each component of how we specific ourselves visually — leading to a streamlined new look that’s a cleaner and bolder model of the Eater you recognize and love. I significantly admire the little touches we’ve sprinkled in that take inspiration from menu design, from inset corners to scotch guidelines.

Bear in mind the fast-paced weblog period once you’d regularly refresh a homepage to see the most recent information of the day? As a name again to these instances — and to extra seamlessly join the Eater universe — Eater.com now prominently options all the most recent information from throughout the community on the prime of the positioning. Plus, we’ve made it simpler to search out a few of the protection we’re most pleased with: our maps, our themed packages, and our essential pillars of protection, together with restaurant information and eating suggestions on our metropolis websites. Eater at Dwelling and Eater Journey tales from the nationwide crew are additionally entrance and heart. And it doesn’t matter what a part of Eater you’re on, the navigation bar will get you to all our websites, together with companion manufacturers Punch, Thrillist, and Gastropod.

Our objectives with the brand new website expertise aren’t that totally different from what we wish out of a restaurant. The most effective eating places are stuffed with vitality and encapsulate their group. They create folks collectively, they expose us to one thing new, and so they’re acquainted but enjoyable. Welcome to the brand new Eater — we hope you agree in and keep awhile.