The iPhone’s a foodie’s dream, with enough high tech abilities to track down the finest scran in seconds.

Whether it’s using the built-in GPS and location-sensing to figure out the nearest chip shop, or using its touchscreen to scroll through a list of drinks recipes, the iPhone has it all.

Not convinced? Install these handy apps and you’ll soon have worked up an appetite.

iDrink (£2.99)
Ditch the bar and magic up a Margherita’s with this drinks don. It has all the recipes you need to become the cocktail king. Mix it up with over 4,500 recipes to upgrade your tipple and get sipping some trendy thirst quenchers without the pretentious surroundings.

Pick&Choose- Groceries (£2.99)
Make shopping as simple as supermarket sweep with this grocery grabber. It’s the only grocery list you’ll ever need. Just pick what you need from the app’s foodie database and get whizzing down those aisles. Don’t forget the inflatable banana.

Vicinity (£1.79)
Tuck into this delectable amenity locater and grab all the latest restaurant and bar hangouts in your locale. With one touch access to all manner of food and drink spots it doesn’t matter whether you’re more Harry Ramsden than Ramsey, its all here.

iWant (£free)
So you’ve planned that dinner date, but having groomed and dolled yourself up you find the tables are booked. Disaster! Not so, fire up this appetite-feeding app and get munching elsewhere close by. With restaurant and bar reviews prepared and available at a touch there’s no need for trip to the takeaway.

Grocery list (£2.39)
Another grocery list app? Well, yeah but this one’s different. Rather than sifting through lists of items simply just tap the items you need and tick them off with another tap when you’ve trolleyed them. Your weekly shopping needn’t turn you into a basket case.

Restaurant Nutrition (£free)
Get the lowdown on lunchtime nutrition with this diet delighting grub calculator. With info on nutritional content from all your favourite takeaways you’ll no longer spend your lunch break worrying over calories, just pick your meals and let this app figure it out.

Chef (£2.99)
Cook up some corking home cooked cuisine, courtesy of Chef. This food friend lets you upload your recipes to its dietary database and check out those cooked up by other culinary cohorts. Find something you like, then conjure it up, just add the ingredients to the app’s shopping list, grab ‘em off the shelves and get cooking.

Beer Pad (£2.99)
The worst thing about sampling exotic beers abroad is forgetting what they were called when you get back home. This beer baron lets you record and rate your favourite, and not so fave’ tipple so you’ll always have fond memories of all those fine Czech beers so you can hunt them down back home.

Tip Master (£0.59)
Next time you’re dining out, touch up this tasty Tip Master and let it calculate the correct tip depending on how you rate the service. Just use the scroll bar to slide from poor to excellent and be advised an amount accordingly. If you’re dining with a group of people, its handy calculator will even let you know how much to split the bill by.

iScale (£2.99)
You’re probably stuffed by now. But don’t worry about your weight, fire this app and it’ll help you maintain a healthy lifestyle by tracking your weight to show how close you are to your body goals. Whether you’re trying to lose or gain weight, this app is perfect for food loving health bods.