HUNTSVILLE – This year, Huntsville will celebrate Valentine’s Day with a little rockets and romance. Connors Steak & Seafood at Huntsville’s Bridge Street Town Centre has been voted one of OpenTable’s 2023 Top 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America.
OpenTable, an online restaurant-reservation service representing more than 50,000 restaurants worldwide, generated the list based on diner surveys and reviews from 11,000 diners in the U.S. between Jan. 3 and 7.
“We are very excited and honored about making that list,” said Amy Maynard, floor manager at Conners Steak & Seafood. “It is reassuring to know customers are experiencing the mood we set out to create.”
Out of a list of 20 different cuisines and over 13 million diner reviews, 19% equated romance with steakhouses, followed by seafood at 18%, American at 17%, and Italian at 9%.
Connors Steak & Seafood captures the steak and seafood lovers’ categories.
Furthermore, 37% of the top 100 most romantic restaurants were steakhouses, by far the biggest hub for Valentine’s Day.
In many places, sharing a steak dinner symbolize elegance and taste.
The Connors steakhouse lighting is sufficiently muted to set the scene, and there are no bad tables in the house, all of them with views and carefully placed to provide plenty of privacy, Maynard said, as well as a festive setting for family gatherings and friends and colleagues out for food and drinks.
“We offer a classic steakhouse atmosphere with an open kitchen so customers can see the fresh seafood and premium aged steaks, choose their own, and watch it fired on the grill.”
That makes the experience very personal and even intimate Maynard said.
“We have a large, exclusive private wine stock, a list of bourbons and a selection of cognacs, all very popular with a steak dinner,” she added.
John Tsou, vice president of Marketing for OpenTable said over the 2022 holiday season and into January, dining exceeded pre-pandemic levels.
“We anticipate this trend to continue through Valentine’s Day,” Tsou said. “Data from our Q1 Diners Survey also revealed that U.S. diners are looking to splurge for the holiday with over one-third planning to spend more money on Valentine’s Day dining this year, compared to years past.”
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