SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 'Tis the Season to celebrate with friends and family, so OpenTable, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPEN), a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants, today announced the 50 winners of its 2010 Diners' Choice Awards for restaurants that are Good for Groups. The list features a variety of restaurants throughout the U.S. which OpenTable diners have ranked as favorites for when dining in large parties.

"More and more, celebrating life's happiest occasions, big and small, happens at restaurants," said Caroline Potter, Chief Dining Officer at OpenTable. "The bigger the celebration, the more important it is to find the right restaurant, and this list makes it easy to do just that. Serving up all types of delicious dishes, including family-style Italian suppers and authentic Mexican specialties to hearty barbecue favorites and juicy steaks, the Good for Groups winners guarantee your group will have a great time and a great meal."

The list of winners is derived from more than 7 million reviews submitted by OpenTable diners for more than 12,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Based on feedback collected from OpenTable diners between November 2009 and October 2010, the following 50 restaurants, listed in alphabetical order, received the highest scores from OpenTable diners, indicating that they were considered among the best restaurants for Group Dining. For more information about this list, please visit http://www.opentable.com/groups.

The 2010 Winners of OpenTable's Good for Groups Restaurant Awards:

• Buca di Beppo – Chicago, IL
• Buca di Beppo - San Francisco, CA
• Café Ba-Ba-Reeba – Chicago, IL
• Carmine's (91^st St) - New York, NY  
• Carmine's - Atlantic City, NJ
• Carmine's on Penn – Denver, CO
• Carmine's Restaurant – Washington, DC
• Carnivale – Chicago, IL
• Casa Sanchez – Los Angeles, CA
• Chima Brazilian Steakhouse – Philadelphia, PA
• Chima Brazilian Steakhouse – Vienna, VA
• Chino Latino – Minneapolis, MN
• Dinosaur Bar-B-Que - New York, NY
• El Cholo Café – Pasadena, CA
• Espetus Churrascaria - San Mateo, CA
• Fire + Ice – Boston, MA
• Fuego Mexican Grill and Margarita Bar – Chicago, IL
• Gyenari – Culver City, CA
• Gyu-Kaku (Beverly Hills) – Los Angeles, CA
• Gyu-Kaku (Pasadena) – Pasadena, CA
• Gyu-Kaku (Rancho Cucamonga) – Rancho Cucamonga, CA
• Gyu-Kaku– (Topanga Canyon), Canoga Park, CA
• Hill Country – New York, NY
• Hofbrauhaus – Las Vegas, NV
• House of Japan (Dublin) – Dublin, OH
• House of Japan (Polaris) – Columbus, OH
• Ichiban Steakhouse – Minneapolis, MN
• K'ya Street Fare – Anaheim, CA
• Kyoto Palace Restaurant – Campbell, CA
• Landmarc – New York, NY
• Loca Luna – Atlanta, GA
• Miyama Japanese Steak House and Sushi Bar – Lone Tree, CO
• Musashi's Japanese Steakhouse - Oklahoma City, OK
• Nakama Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar – Pittsburgh, PA
• Naples 45 -  New York, NY
• Pampas – Palo Alto, CA
• Percy Street Barbecue – Philadelphia, PA
• Ping Pong Dim Sum – Washington, DC
• Plataforma Churrascaria - New York, NY
• Ralph & Kacoo's – New Orleans, LA
• The Ranch at Las Colinas – Irving, TX
• Rawhide Steakhouse at Wild Horse Pass – Chandler, AZ
• Rio Rodizio – Union, NJ
• Rosa Mexicano (Union Square) - New York, NY
• Sambuca - New York, NY
• Summer Shack – Boston, MA
• Summer Shack – Cambridge, MA
• Tony's Di Napoli - New York, NY
• Trattoria Cinque – New York, NY
• Wildwood Barbecue - New York, NY

For more information on the Diners' Choice award-winning restaurants, please visit the "Dining Check" blog on OpenTable at http://blog.opentable.com.

About OpenTable, Inc.

OpenTable is a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation and guest management solutions for restaurants. The OpenTable network delivers the convenience of online restaurant reservations to diners and the operational benefits of a computerized reservation book to restaurants. OpenTable has more than 15,000 restaurant customers, and, since its inception in 1998, has seated more than 175 million diners around the world. The Company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and the OpenTable service is available throughout the United States, as well as in Canada, Germany, Japan, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. OpenTable also owns and operates toptable.com, a leading restaurant reservation site in the United Kingdom.      

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