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It’s nearly Valentine’s Day (in case you’d forgotten) and if this year a box of cheap chocolates from the 24-hour garage just won’t do, why not treat your beloved to a fine meal out.
You can do that in any one of hundreds of great restaurants around the UK, of course, but to make the evening really special your chosen venue needs a certain je ne sais quoi. Good food is a given, but so is a romantic ambience, waiting staff that melt into the background and perhaps a cosy corner for the two of you to feel alone in the crowd.
We think this list - the 2014 Diners’ Choice winners for the Top 20 Most Romantic Restaurants in the UK, compiled by toptable - will push all your buttons (the list is in alphabetical order, and generated from more than 300,000 restaurant reviews collected from verified toptable diners). Our one piece of advice would be to book now. A table next to the toilets may kill your partner’s passion stone dead.
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