SAN FRANCISCO (RestaurantMagazine.com) OpenTable, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPEN) (www.opentable.com), a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants, today announced the winners of its 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards for restaurants that are most Fit for Foodies. While this year’s list features 22 restaurants that earned the Fit for Foodies distinction in 2009, it also recognizes 28 new ones at which to enjoy outstanding cuisine. The list of winners is derived from more than 7 million reviews submitted by OpenTable diners for more than 12,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
“This is one of my favorite Diners’ Choice Award lists of the year as it’s fun to see which restaurants our diners recommend to others for whom dining out is a true passion,” said Caroline Potter, dining expert, OpenTable. “In many major cities, it provides great suggestions for those who are looking to push the boundaries and try something new.”
Based on feedback collected from OpenTable diners between September 2009 and August 2010, the following 50 restaurants, listed in alphabetical order, received the highest scores from OpenTable diners, indicating that they were considered among the restaurants most Fit for Foodies. For more information about this list, please visit http://www.opentable.com/foodies
The 2010 Winners of OpenTable’s Fit for Foodies Awards
- Abbatoir – Atlanta, GA
- Ad Hoc – Yountville, CA
- Annisa – New York, NY
- Bergamot – Somerville, MA
- Bibou – Philadelphia, PA
- Bistro LQ – Los Angeles, CA
- Blackbird – Chicago, IL
- Blue Hill – New York, NY
- Bonsoirée – Chicago, IL
- Camino – Oakland, CA
- Canteen – San Francisco, CA
- Cascina Spinasse – Seattle, WA
- Cochon – New Orleans, LA
- Coi – San Francisco, CA
- Commis – San Francisco, CA
- Craigie on Main – Cambridge, MA
- Dirt Candy – New York, NY
- Falai – New York, NY
- FIG – Charleston, SC
- Fond – Philadelphia, PA
- Forage – Salt Lake City, UT
- Frances – San Francisco, CA
- Frasca Food and Wine – Denver, CO
- Gather – San Francisco, CA
- Girl & The Goat – Chicago, IL
- Graham Elliot – Chicago, IL
- Hatfields – Los Angeles, CA
- Haute Dish – Minneapolis, MN
- Heartland Restaurant – St. Paul, MN
- Local 127 – Cincinnati, OH
- Mado – Chicago, IL
- Menton – Boston, MA
- Mistral Kitchen – Seattle, WA
- noca – Phoenix, AZ
- o ya – Boston, MA
- Osteria Mozza – Los Angeles, CA
- palate food + wine – Glendale, CA
- Piccolo – Minneapolis, MN
- Primo – Rockland, ME
- Quince – San Francisco, CA
- Range – San Francisco, CA
- Saffron Restaurant & Lounge – Minneapolis, MN
- Sprout – Chicago, IL
- Takashi – Chicago, IL
- The French Laundry – Yountville, CA
- The Publican – Chicago, IL
- The Tasting Kitchen – Venice, CA
- Tilth – Seattle, WA
- Ubuntu Napa – Napa, CA
- wd-50 – New York, NY
For more information on the list of restaurants most Fit for Foodies, please visit Potter’s “Dining Check” blog on OpenTable at http://blog.opentable.com.
About OpenTable, Inc.
OpenTable is a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants. The OpenTable network delivers the convenience of online restaurant reservations to diners and the operational benefits of a computerized reservation book to restaurants. OpenTable has more than 14,000 restaurant customers and, since its inception in 1998, has seated more than 160 million diners around the world. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and the OpenTable service is available throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
