Thrillist...in a city near you?

It would seem to be a sad state of affairs that my source of news and entertainment this week has pretty much been the Metro (Philly).  But maybe I'm being a snob?  After all, this is the second blog this week about something from the Metro that excited...or even thrilled...me.

Thrillist (read that as "Thrill list") is a website that claims to use untold powers to find your city's gold: new, unknown, and inexcusably underappreciated finds, all free.  The  website invites us to gorge on its email smorgasboard every day: the newest eats, drinks, gear, travel and entertainment. 

It looks like they sometimes send out more than one email a day.  If you simply view online, however, you get the "digest" version.  I already found points of interest this way.  For example, Stephen Starr, the man who brought Philly Buddakan (and sent copies of it to Atlantic City and then NYC), has expanded his empire with a new Mexican restaurant called El Rey.  It's located at 20th and Chestnut at the site of the former Midtown IV.

The website has another nice feature.  If you select a story, it provides the Amazon-like feature ("Other readers who liked this book also liked...) of "People Who Dug This Article Were Also Into..."  This feature led me down a lazy river of other interesting information.

Thrillist is available for a number of cities including Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Las Vegas, London, LA, Miami, NYC, San Fran, and Seattle.  So, even if your city isn't a Thrillist city, you can still check out the website to plan visits to any of those cities.  Just be aware that all of the categories (examples, Sex & Dating and Travel) may not be populated with ideas yet.

I began to look at the Thrillist NYC but decided it didn't make sense to do that.  As a non-resident now, I don't have immediate plans to return for a visit.  This will probably change in a few months but, for now, I have to get my thrills in Philadelphia and the surrounding 'burbs.