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
- Credit: Café Bohème
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
- Credit: Oliveto
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
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
- Credit: JOIA Restaurant & Bar
- 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
- 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
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