Diner’s Choice awards

On Our Plate: Best Brunches in the U.S.; Mother’s Day $200 Giveaway; Soft-Shell Crabs; Arizona Restaurant Week; S. Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants

Happenings on and around OpenTable… * We’re celebrating the release of our 2012 Diners’ Choice Awards for Top 100 Restaurants for Brunch in the U.S. Find out if your fave place to celebrate the weekend made our list! * Enter our Mother’s Day ‘Feed the Mom Who Fed You’ Giveaway! Score one of five $200 [...]

Bad Service at a Restaurant: What Would You Do?

This past weekend, I dined out a restaurant (one not on the OpenTable network, and, on behalf of my fellow diners, I am glad for that) and experienced really poor service. I’ve waited tables at many restaurants. Because of that, I am always apt to cut servers a lot of slack. It is a difficult [...]

Fondue or Fon-don’t: Does Melted Cheese Melt Hearts?

We recently announced the winners of the OpenTable Diners’ Choice award for the Top 50 Most Romantic Restaurants. Of the 50, a whopping 12 were Melting Pot restaurants, where fondue anchors the menus. Two other winners, La Fondue and Simply Fondue, are also, as you might have guessed by their names, fondue-friendly eateries. The Chicago [...]

Best Restaurants for American Cuisine: Your 50 Favorites

Are you feeling particularly patriotic as Independence Day draws near? Celebrate by dining out at one of the national winners of the OpenTable 2009 Diners’ Choice awards for Best American Cuisine, as selected by OpenTable diners. Based on 2.5 million reviews of more than 9,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, [...]

The Best Restaurants for Outdoor Dining

Summer is almost upon us, igniting diners’ appetites for enjoying a meal outside. Want to know where the best restaurants for outdoor dining in the U.S. are? The national winners of the 2009 Diners’ Choice awards for Best Outdoor Dining are in! Based on 2 million reviews from OpenTable diners of more than 9,000 restaurants [...]

Top 50 U.S. Restaurants: Diners’ Choice Winners

We asked, and you answered! OpenTable is pleased to announce the results of our first annual Diner’s Choice awards. Based on the feedback of more than 2 million diners like you, the list includes the top 50 restaurants in the U.S. identified as “Best Overall.” With winners in 22 states and Washington D.C., the Diners’ [...]

Date/Time	Event
06/01/2013 - 06/02/2013 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM	Montclair Food & Wine Festival Woman’s Club of Upper Montclair, Montclair New Jersey
06/03/2013 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM	Long Island Hospitality Ball to Benefit American Cancer Society Crest Hollow Country Club, Woodbury New York

Caroline Potter is the Chief Dining Officer for OpenTable, Inc. She’s a dining trend-spotter and an OpenTable VIP, who dines out more than she eats in and has accrued more than 10,000 Dining Rewards points. Caroline started working in restaurants as a teen and she's since tackled every front-of-the-house job, from bartender and hostess to runner and server. She trained as a chef at Manhattan’s prestigious French Culinary Institute, cooking at L’Ecole. In addition to her role at OpenTable, she has written about food from farm to table for New York City’s famed Greenmarket and Edible Brooklyn and Edible East End magazines. Caroline is also a Certified Master Gardener.