Keep an eye out for a new feature on Urbanspoon. The site already cleverly maps restaurants in cities worldwide, mines useful data about them for consumers, and aggregates reviews. Now, some Seattle chefs tell me, the Spoon is looking at allowing users to make online reservations at participating restaurants — something like Open Table, but more affordable than that service, which mines data for the restaurateur but gets dinged for its costs. (It’s free to diners, but the restaurants pay.)

The folks at Urbanspoon don’t want to talk about projects that are under development, but check back — I’ll update this when there’s more to tell.

*updated 8/6. It’s live, with more information here.

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