1. Who are you?
My name is Jessie de Haan and I am responsible for DiningCity, your online dining guide, in Vienna.

2. What do you like about what you do?
I like to create additional benefits and more reservations for good restaurants on the one hand and serve visitors of DiningCity Vienna on the other. Contact to other people with the same enterpreneurial spirit is something I enjoy in particular.

3. What don’t you like about what you do?
Something I like least is the paperwork, which of course comes along with every job.

4. Please tell us about DiningCity and your future goals?
DiningCity.com is an international online restaurant guide, which is already very successful in different cities within and also outside Europe. Since November 2008 DiningCity Vienna is online too!

The most important advantages:

• Bilingual: DiningCity is always available in English and in the language of the city
• All important contact information about each restaurant you’ll find online (including the link to the homepage of the restaurant itself)
• 3 nice, professional pictures per restaurant
• Restaurants have the possibility to attach (and change) their menu at any time
• DiningCity offers to recommend (of course free of charge and without obligation) 3 restaurants which meet the requirements for your business dinner or your dinner with friends.
• You have the possibility to reserve online
• You can evaluate the restaurants online
• Only upscale and top restaurants can be found on DiningCity.com
• Nice design of the website without distracting banner ads

Just click on www.diningcity.com and have a look!

My future goals are to let DiningCity Vienna grow to the best online dining guide with about 300 great restaurants in Vienna and finally to expand to other cities in Austria. In this way and looking at the services DiningCity offers, I’m convinced to be appreciated by lots of national and international visitors.

5. Are you working with blogs and if yes, what is your favourite blog?
I’m not working enough with blogs yet. Some blogs I like besides The Ring Hotel Press are: blog.austria.info, www.kochblog.at, www.speising.net, www.gourmetwiese.at.

6. Your experiences with the overall food industry?
Vienna is a city in which you can have a marvelous lunch or dinner at a reasonable price in comparison to other metropolises. You’ll find almost any cuisine you can think of. The only difficulty is to differentiate between restaurants which offer a good value for money and restaurants who don’t. DiningCity is trying to support its visitors here as good as possible.

7. What are your most favourite restaurants?
Besides at eight, Le Ciel and Unkai, which suit DiningCity very well, I like restaurants like Mraz & Sohn, Le Salzgries, Eisvogel and the Himmelsstube very much. They all have their own unique speciality and are all to be found on www.diningcity.com/wien/.

8. Any comments you want to share with us?
DiningCity is not only an online restaurant guide. We combine the online marketing of the restaurants with offline events. The next big event is the first Viennese Restaurant Week powered by DiningCity. This culinary week will take place from July 6th until July 12th 2009 in about 50 well-known restaurants in Vienna.
The concept is very simple. During the DiningCity Restaurant Week top restaurants offer a 3 course gourmet menu at the price of €25. For guests of the Restaurant Week it means getting to know new restaurants and enjoying haute cuisine at a very special price.
Reservations can only be made online on www.restaurantwoche.at starting from June 9th 2009. Reservations are made real-time, which means that they will be confirmed automatically. The technology behind this system is unique for Austria.

So make sure you’ll be in Vienna from July 6th until July 12th and book your table online on www.restaurantwoche.at as-of June 9th!