Six DC Restaurants Make OpenTable’s Top 100 List

Six D.C. restaurants have made the recently released annual list of OpenTable’s 100 Best Restaurants in America. The D.C. restaurants picked for the Top 100 list are as follows: Chez Billy Sud, Kinship, Lafayette Restaurant, Le Diplomate, Rasika and Tosca Ristorante. D.C. is behind only New York, California, Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania in terms of the number of restaurants included in the list. New York had the honor of having 24 winning restaurants in the list. California had 15 and Illinois had nine, while Texas had eight restaurants on the list. OpenTable, which is the world’s leading provider of online restaurant reservations and part of Booking Holdings Inc., prepared the list based on user reviews of over 28,000 restaurants in the U.S. The data was collected from over 12 million verified diner reviews posted online between November 2017 and October 2018. American and Italian restaurants were found to offer the most popular cuisines, followed by French, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern restaurants. Californian, Hawaiian and Tex-Mex restaurants also found their place in list. The exhaustive list suggests increase in appetite and demand for more exotic flavors and some travel-inspired dishes. “The 100 Best Restaurants in America list gives voice to OpenTable’s diner community by honoring the restaurants they love to visit and that consistently provide dining experiences that delight time and again,” said Caroline Potter, Chief Dining Officer at OpenTable. “The diversity of this year’s list truly showcases how OpenTable helps diners find the right restaurant for every appetite and every occasion.”