How to use Square Meal

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Square Meal Guide & Services

In order to register to receive a copy of the Square Meal Guide, please fill out our short registration form. Once you have done this then you will be registered on our database and guide will be sent to you as soon as the next distribution occurs.

Square Meal has a huge database of venues, entertainment ideas and approved event organisers in London and throughout the UK. We also offer a free Helpline service to point you in the right direction or pass your details on to appropriate venues and/or event organisers.

The Helpline team can be contacted directly on 020 7582 0222.

Guide to Reviews

Please see guide to the restaurant and bar reviews on the Square Meal site (opens in a new window).

Using the Quick Search Facility

A quick search facility is located in the horizontal bar at the top of every page. You can quickly search for a restaurant or venue you are looking for by entering the name, or part of the name into the search box and then selecting an option from the drop-down menu. Choose from London Restaurants, London Venues, UK Restaurants or UK Venues.

Using Your Keyboard

You can use your computer keyboard to quickly access common pages and links.

Exact key combination depends on which browser you use. In Internet Explorer hold down the Alt key, press the appropriate digit on your keyboard and hit Enter. Firefox uses Shift+Alt+key, Opera uses Shift+Esc, key, and Safari uses Control+key.

  • 1 = Takes you to the home page
  • 2 = Skips the content and jumps to the menu (in text or voice browsers)
  • 4 = Focuses quicksearch form
  • 6 = Takes you to this help page
  • 8 = Terms and conditions
  • 9 = Feedback/contact page

Restaurant Selections

To give you some inspiration in choosing a restaurant, Square Meal have created Restaurants Selections. These are groups of restaurants categorised by cuisine, location and many other useful criteria. They are always displayed in the left hand column of the site and change depending on where you are. Look out for selections that cover Venues and Events & Entertainment as well.

Browsers

This site is optimised for browsers and above that support HTML 4 and CSS2. Although every effort has been taken to ensure that the site can be used in older browsers, some pages may not display properly as a result of this. The newest versions of browsers that support the latest standards can be found by following the links below.

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Flash

Selected Restaurants on the site make use of an online booking service that requires the latest Flash Player. This can be downloaded from the Macromedia website.

Java Applets

Selected Venue and Event items make use of 360° Virtual Tour facility that requires a Java plug-in. This can be downloaded from the Sun website.

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