Using Your Chase Sapphire Reserve Dining Credit
The refreshed Chase Sapphire Reserve® now includes a $300 annual dining credit. Cardholders receive up to $150 in statement credits from January through June and another $150 from July through December for eligible purchases made at participating restaurants booked through OpenTable Exclusive Tables.
To qualify, you must:
- Have an eligible Chase Sapphire Reserve card.
- Dine and pay directly at a participating restaurant using your Sapphire Reserve card.
- The statement credit is applied automatically, up to $150 per half-year.
Because only a limited list of restaurants qualifies, it’s important to verify eligibility before making a reservation. Chase periodically updates the participating restaurant list, which is why these additions and removals can have a significant impact on cardholders who use the benefit regularly.
How It Works
Chase has refreshed the list of restaurants eligible for the Sapphire Reserve $300 annual dining credit through OpenTable Exclusive Tables. The latest update adds 91 new restaurants while removing 64 others, bringing the total number of participating restaurants to 404, up from 377 just a couple of days ago.
Some notable additions include:
- House of Prime Rib (San Francisco)
- Fox & The Knife (Boston)
- Ocean 48 (Orange County)
There were also some disappointing removals:
- Di an Di (New York City)
- Toro (Boston)
Las Vegas appears to have been hit especially hard, losing about half a dozen participating restaurants, including Nobu, Hell’s Kitchen, and Harlo.
You can browse the complete, updated list of eligible restaurants, including a filter showing newly added locations, using the NextCard Sapphire Reserve Dining Credit Map: https://www.nextcard.com/tools/csr-dining-credit-map. The site also tracks which participating restaurants sell gift cards that may qualify for the dining credit.
Chase representatives have indicated that cardholders with existing reservations at restaurants that were removed from the program may have a 60-day grace period to request a manual dining credit. This isn’t officially documented in the program terms, but it could be worth contacting Chase if you had booked a qualifying restaurant before it was removed from the eligible list.
Guru’s Wrap-up
It’s nice to see Chase continuing to expand the number of participating restaurants, although the number is still quite low at just over 400. But frequent updates mean it’s always a good idea to verify that your chosen restaurant is still eligible before dining.
If you already have a reservation at a restaurant that is no longer eligible, don’t forget about the 60-day grace period. You may have to reach out to Chase to request a manual credit if your purchase doesn’t automatically qualify.
Let us know if and where you have used this credit recently. I’m excited to use my next credit at Una Pizza Napoletana, but I need to secure a reservation first.
