Phoenix Media Launches Cheap Eats Aggregator Hubeats

This week, The Phoenix's parent company, PCMG, launched a helpful food blog called Hubeats, which aims to round up daily food specials around Boston in a Tourfilter-like interface, with all the deals listed for each individual day. Restaurant industry folks and regular eaters alike are encouraged to post events to the list. Clicking on the event reveals details, a map, and an option to send it to your Google calendar. The site is also set up to interact with Boston's many food-loving Twitter users, who can follow the latest deals on Hubeats' feed and submit their own tips to the site simply by including "#hubeats" in their food-related tweets.

For a week-old site, Hubeats contains a wealth of entries: there are 38 dinners and deals listed for this sleepy Tuesday, for example, from a free "scoop of soup" at Rocca's bar to a $5 bowl of boar chili at KO Prime. Even know-it-all gourmets will likely find a few surprises here, and the rest of us now have a tool for finding some place to eat and drink on the cheap outside our own kitchens. And with late-winter cabin fever setting in all over the city and recession stories hogging the headlines in every daily, this news couldn't have come at a better time.