A vast and varied constellation of options await the Web surfer who's in search of a local bar or restaurant to visit.

AP Illustration/Jenni Sohn Where will you go to pick tonight's dinner spot? Look to the stars ...

There's the social networking-style orgy of user-generated content at Yelp.com. Join the conversation with serious eaters at Chowhound.com. The buttoned-up Citysearch.com is easy to use, as is Zagat.com.

Each has something unique to offer; where you go depends on your disposition. To figure out which is best for you, we dispense with rankings, head-to-head comparisons and user ratings.

We look, instead, to the stars.

In other words, we answer the question, "What's your food Web site sign?"

ARIES

The editors of Zagat.com give a "new and notable" restaurants box the most prominent placement on their site, great for early adopter Aries, who are "first in line to get things going," according to the Web site astrology.com.

LEO

Yelp.com's "I"-centric, user-generated reviews have as much to do with users expressing themselves they do with imparting information in an efficient manner. You Leos, who love being center stage, should be into that.

VIRGO

Rather than rating restaurants out of a handful of stars, Zagat.com uses a 30-point system, appealing to a Virgo's "picky, critical and exacting" nature. Though subjective, the incremental numerical values offer a basis for head-to-head restaurant comparisons.

TAURUS

Taureans tend to be practical and impatient, which means they probably don't want to spend much time trolling restaurant reviews. The reservation-taking site Opentable.com features bare-bones information on restaurants but an extremely efficient electronic means of reserving tables -- perfect for this stubborn sign.

GEMINI

Geminis are forever talking, suiting them well to the chatty nature of Chowhound.com's message boards. Also, these folks' tendency for "probing ... in search of information" is needed to dig out the 411 on specific restaurants that's often buried in conversational threads.

CANCER

Cancerians are homebodies who would probably rather spend time around the kitchen table or in front of the TV than at a stuffy restaurant. Delivery sites for you, Cancer: Depending on where you live, Delivery.com or Seamlessweb.com will do.

LIBRA

What better place for the sign that represents fairness and balance than the user-ruled Yelp.com? Here, anyone can have a say with reviews that are neither chopped up and reformulated into quotation-heavy blurbs (like Zagat) or supplanted by critic-generated blurbs (Citysearch).

SCORPIO

Sexual, exciting and magnetic Scorpio -- you've always been a sucker for a hotspot. You couldn't stand to be in the "wrong" place now, could you? No, your jealous streak wouldn't allow it. Buzz-obsessed Sheckys.com has your compulsions covered with unvarnished nightlife reviews, mixed in with where to find the top cities' beauty and fashion hangouts.

SAGITTARIUS

Since you freethinking, optimistic and gregarious Sagittarians are always at ease in a crowd, chatty Chowhound.com is the way to go; the site has a wide geographical reach for your incurable wanderlust, and its air of "serious" eaters should slake your thirst for truth and knowledge.

CAPRICORN

Diligent, efficient and pragmatic. Those qualities describe Citysearch.com, with its slick but not flashy graphics, well-organized reviews and easy-to-navigate structure. Just so happens that those are also three adjectives that describe your personality.

AQUARIUS

Since you Aquarians are opinionated enough on your own, why would you worry about what others have to say about restaurants? Your humanitarian side would want to support a local business, anyway. It's Yellowpages.com for you (search by distance).

PISCES

Sensitive, compassionate, Pisces. You are so selfless, so sympathetic, so wishy-washy that you'd probably just order a salad and water for fear of harming animals, offending fellow diners or making the kitchen help work too hard. Just walk outside and let your intuition guide you.

Jonathan Drew, a Gemini, is an asap reporter based in New York.