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Six Illinois Restaurants Land On List Of Best Date Spots

Girl & the Goat ​in Chicago was named among the best restaurants for date night in the United States.

Several restaurants in Illinois are among the 50 best date spots in America, according to OpenTable.
Several restaurants in Illinois are among the 50 best date spots in America, according to OpenTable. (Shutterstock )

ACROSS ILLINOIS — OpenTable, a restaurant reservation website, recently released a list of the 50 Best Restaurants for a Date in America for 2019. And it looks like love is in the air for six restaurants in Illinois.

Girl & the Goat in Chicago was named among the best restaurants for date night in a list that features establishments in 21 states and Washington, D.C.

The list was based on an analysis of 12 million reviews of more than 30,000 restaurants across the country — all submitted by verified OpenTable users between Sept. 1, 2018, and Aug. 31, 2019.

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Restaurants were then scored and further sorted based on search terms such as “GoodForDates” and “Good for a Date.”

The restaurant reservation website put together the list in partnership with Hinge, a dating app that found through an OpenTable-commissioned survey that 86 percent of respondents find it stressful to pick a perfect date spot.

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Five other Illinois restaurants also made the list: Wildfire in Schaumburg, Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant in Oak Lawn, Meson Sabika in Naperville, and RPM Italian and Steak 48 in Chicago.

“Given the added stress daters face when looking for the right restaurant, we wanted to create a go-to list that offers a restaurant for any date — whether it’s your first or one-thousandth,” said Anne Besse, director of marketing at OpenTable.

More details via OpenTable on the six best restaurants for date night in Illinois:


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