OpenTable’s Top 100 Romantic Restaurants in the UK for 2024

Food is its own love language, but when it’s served in a cosy room or a candlelit booth? Guaranteed fireworks. OpenTable analysed over 1.1 million diner reviews and metrics to find the restaurants that had diners swooning—these are the Top 100 Romantic Restaurants in the UK.

Aberdeen

• Café Bohème – Aberdeen

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Bath/Somerset

• Chez Dominique – Bath

Berkshire

• Buenasado Argentine Steakhouse– Reading

Buckinghamshire

• The Greyhound Pub & Dining – Beaconsfield

Cardiff

• Courts – Penarth
• The Ivy Cardiff – Cardiff

Cheshire

• Sticky Walnut – Chester
• The Chefs Table – Chester

Cornwall

• The Bank At Bude – Bude

Derbyshire

• A Tavola Gastronomia Siciliana – High Peak
• Stones Restaurant – Matlock
• The Dovecote Restaurant – Morley

Devon

• Harry’s Restaurant – Exeter
• Ocean View at The Dome – Plymouth
• The Elephant Restaurant – Torquay

Dorset

• Oliveto – Weymouth

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Durham

• The Bay Horse – Darlington

Edinburgh

• Kyloe Gourmet Steak Restaurant – Westend
• Mamma Roma Ristorante – Leith Walk

Essex

• Kara Lounge & Grill – Grays

Glasgow / Lanarkshire

• Ardnamurchan – Glasgow
• Number 16 Restaurant – Glasgow

Hampshire

• Shanghai 1814 – Southampton

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Hertfordshire

• Lavish Bar & Grill – Stevenage

Kent

• Chapter One – Orpington
• Firepit Restaurant at The Cave – Canterbury
• Rocksalt – Folkestone
• Sotirio’s Bar and Restaurant – Folkestone

Lancashire

• La Mancha Tapas Bar – Rochdale

London

• 14 Hills – Fenchurch Street
• Andrew Edmunds – Soho
• Boulevard Brasserie – Covent Garden
• Clos Maggiore – Covent Garden
• CORE by Clare Smyth – Notting Hill
• Forty Dean Street – Soho
• Frog by Adam Handling – Covent Garden
• Gauthier Soho – Soho
• GŎNG, Shangri-La The Shard – London Bridge
• JOIA Restaurant & Bar – Battersea

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• Jolene Newington Green – Stoke Newington
• Le Cafe du Marche – Barbican
• Le Garrick – Covent Garden – Covent Garden
• Locanda Locatelli – Mayfair
• Mere – Fitzrovia
• Ognisko – South Kensington
• Palm Court Brasserie – Covent Garden
• Petersham Nurseries Restaurant Richmond – Richmond
• Quaglino’s – Green Park
• River Restaurant Gordon Ramsay – Covent Garden
• Savoy Grill – Gordon Ramsay – Covent Garden
• Smiths Restaurant – Wapping
• Thames Foyer – Covent Garden
• The Drawing Room at Brown’s Hotel – Mayfair
• The French Table – Surbiton
• The NoMad London – Covent Garden
• TĪNG Restaurant and Lounge, Shangri-La The Shard, London – London Bridge

Manchester / Greater Manchester

• 20 Stories Restaurant – Manchester
• Albert’s Shed – Manchester
• Climat – Manchester

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• Gaucho Manchester – Manchester
• Hawksmoor Manchester – Manchester
• The Cherry Tree – Bolton

Newcastle and Northumberland

• 21 – Newcastle upon Tyne
• Blackfriars Restaurant – Newcastle upon Tyne
• Bouchon Bistrot Hexham – Newcastle upon Tyne
• Dobson & Parnell – Newcastle upon Tyne
• Hibou Blanc – Newcastle
• No. 59 Restaurant @ Townhouse Morpeth – Morpeth
• Six Baltic – Newcastle upon Tyne
• The French Quarter – Newcastle upon Tyne

Norfolk/Suffolk

• Estabulo Norwich – Norwich
• Rooftop Gardens – Norwich
• The Assembly House – Norwich
• The Pigs Edgefield – Holt/Edgefield
• The White Horse – Brancaster Staithe

Oxford/Oxfordshire

• Gees – Oxford
• No1 Ship Street – Oxford
• Parsonage Grill – Oxford
• Quod Restaurant & Bar – Oxford
• The White Hart at Fyfield – Fyfield

Renfrewshire

• Palomino’s Restaurant at Ingliston Country Club – Bishopton

Staffordshire

• Duck Goose – Leek

Warwickshire

• Loxley’s Restaurant & Wine Bar – Stratford-upon-Avon
• The Farmhouse Restaurant – Coventry
• The Opposition – Stratford-upon-Avon
• The Vintner – Stratford-upon-Avon

West Midlands

• Fiume Restaurant – Wolverhampton
• Orelle Birmingham – Birmingham

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Yorkshire

• Devour – Holmfirth
• La Boca – Doncaster
• La Vecchia Scuola – York
• Nola – York
• Shibden Mill Inn – Halifax
• Sous Le Nez – Leeds
• The Cut & Craft Leeds – Leeds
• The Fat Badger Harrogate – Harrogate
• The Hawthorn – Keighley
• The Star Inn The City – York
• The Tannin Level – Harrogate
• Vivido Bar & Restaurant – Harrogate