3 Valley restaurants named OpenTable’s “Hottest in America”

The online restaurant reservation site OpenTable released its list of the 100 “hottest restaurants in America” for 2016, with three eateries in the Coachella Valley making the cut. Eight4Nine, which opened in 2015 in Palm Springs, is on the list, along with Tropicale in Palm Springs and The Nest in Indian Wells.

The list reflects the combined opinions of more than 5 million restaurant reviews submitted between March 1, 2015, and Feb. 29 by verified OpenTable diners for more than 20,000 restaurants in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to the website.

The Los Angeles area had the most restaurants on the list — 17 — with eight of those located in West Hollywood. California has 25 restaurants listed, followed by New York with 15, Florida and Illinois with seven each, Texas with five, Colorado and Georgia with four winners apiece, and Louisiana, Massachusetts and Nevada with three each.