5 Chicago-area restaurants listed among the most romantic in the U.S.

Looking to set up your Valentine's Day plans? You don't have to go far to find a romantic night out.

Online reservation platform OpenTable compiled a list of the Top 100 Romantic Restaurants in the country and five Chicagoland spots made the cut.

Chicago romantic restaurants

Chicago landed four restaurants on the list, while Naperville secured the only spot outside the city limits:

California had the most total restaurants on the list with 11.

The Criteria:

OpenTable compiled their most romantic restaurant list by analyzing over 10 million reviews from Dec. 1, 2023 to Nov. 30 of last year.

The reservation company used the following criteria to form their list: "Restaurants with a minimum threshold of diner reviews were considered and evaluated by a compilation of unique data points, including diner ratings, the percentage of five star reviews, the number of alerts set, the percentage of reservations made in advance, percentage of capacity and direct searches. Metrics were weighted to comprise an overall score. The qualified restaurants were then ranked by the percentage of reviews with the tag "'romantic'"

Big picture view:

The National Retail Federation predicted consumers will spend a record $27.5 billion on Valentine's Day this year. Nearly $2 billion more than last year.

The Source: The information in this story came from online reservation platform OpenTable.

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