I receive compensation for content and many links on this blog. Citibank is an advertising partner of this site, as is American Express, Chase, Barclays and Capital One. Any opinions expressed in this post are my own, and have not been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by my advertising partners. I do not write about all credit cards that are available -- instead focusing on miles, points, and cash back (and currencies that can be converted into the same). Terms apply to the offers and benefits listed on this page.
Capital One had a pretty innovative partnership with Resy, the online restaurant reservation service. It’s smaller than OpenTable, but has a lot of trendy and innovative restaurants. Then American Express bought Resy.
So Capital One went out and put together a new restaurant partnership that all of their cardmembers have access to – not just Capital One® Savor® Cash Rewards Credit Card with its 4% back on dining and entertainment, but Capital One Venture Rewards Credit Card,and other cards too.
Capital One cardmembers now have access to weekend reservations at top restaurants in 15 cities across the U.S. set aside for them. OpenTable, owned by Booking.com (née Priceline) is the 80,000 pound gorilla in the restaurant booking space (see OpenTable vs. Resy vs. Tock).
Credit: Capital One
So far there are “Premium Access” reservations at prime dining times for two or four people are available through the OpenTable mobile app in 18 cities:
| Atlanta | Houston | Philadelphia | ||
| Austin | Las Vegas | Portland | ||
| Boston | Los Angeles | Richmond | ||
| Chicago | Miami | San Francisco | ||
| Dallas | New Orleans | Seattle | ||
| Denver | New York City | Washington |
The restaurants available in each city are listed online and include:
Boka and Girl & the Goat in Chicago, Republique, Here’s Looking At You and the NoMad Restaurant in Los Angeles, Brennan’s and Shaya in New Orleans, L’Artusi, The Loyal, and Daniel in New York City, Delfina Restaurant, the Slanted Door in San Francisco, Bresca and Kith/Kin in Washington D.C.
Here’s how to take advantage of the special restaurant availability:
- Download the OpenTable App (or update to latest version)
- Find “Premium Access” on the home screen or visit www.opentable.com/capitalone to browse participating restaurants.
- Verify your Capital One cardmembership to to gain access
Whether you’ve listened to Jennifer Garner, Samuel Jackson, or Taylor Swift (or me) to get a Capital One card, it turned out to be a better investment than any of us said if you like dining out at popular places at peak times.
Cool benefit in theory, but I haven’t had issues getting reservations at peak times at the restaurants I’m familiar with on the list (Atlanta)…and the OpenTable restaurants that I sometimes have issues with reservations with, aren’t on the list.
But what about Boise?!?! Can i get a reservation at the front of the line at the Cracker Barrel in Boise though?!?!?!!?
not impressed with list above, though occasionally we bring visitors to Slanted Door. if they are going to do it right they need to go all out otherwise they will get no mileage from this “benefit”
Kind of like those blast email from airlines every week touting “sales” that are not really
I think Gary relayed a misleading PR release from Capital One. I just opened the Open Table app and had immediate access to the so called Premium Access restaurants.