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Tim’s American Express Platinum Dining maps can help you spend your £300 credit

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A hugely interesting benefit of American Express Platinum cards is £300 per year of dining credit.

You receive:

  • £150 to spend across 170 or so UK restaurants
  • £150 to spend across 1,600 or so international restaurants
Tim's American Express Platinum Dining maps can help spend your £300 credit

There is no minimum spend – free really means free. If you spend under £150, the balance is carried over to be used on another meal during the year. Your credit resets on 1st January each year.

One issue is that the American Express website for checking which restaurants you can use is not as intuitive as it could be.

Luckily, Tim Rogers, who originally founded Reward Flight Finder before selling it, set up a website which creates maps covering all participating restaurants globally.

You can filter by cuisine and Michelin star rating if you are keen on, or want to avoid, fine dining.

Importantly, Tim is updating his maps as restaurants are added or removed, which apparently is happening on a fairly regular basis.

However, you should always double check with the official American Express list on the day you are dining. We’ve heard from HfP readers who booked ‘hard to get’ restaurants weeks in advance only to find out, after the meal, that the restaurant had left the programme in the gap between booking and eating.

Have a play at Tim’s website here – https://platinumdining.caffeinesoftware.com/

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Comments (24)

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  • KD says:
    12 Aug12 August 09:27

    Is there any way to spend the UK dining credit while overseas. Gift cards, asking the restaurant to charge before dining. Looking at ‘gifting’ it to a family member.

    • Rob says:
      12 Aug12 August 09:58

      Let them add your Platinum card to their smartphone and they can Apple Pay / Google Pay their meal.

      • LittleNick says:
        12 Aug12 August 12:15

        Is Apple Pay/Google Pay not a payment facilitator and therefore if the credit doesn’t go through you’ve got no fallback or does this not apply to dining credit?

    • Charlie says:
      12 Aug12 August 15:05

      The Ivy do gift cards that have a 12 month expiry date. Hawksmoor do too, with a 24 month expiry date. I have bought both and received the applicable Amex credit. Internationally, in Vienna, El Gaucho, who do a superb fillet steak, also have a gift card option that has no expiry date.

  • sayling says:
    12 Aug12 August 09:50

    Tim deserves recognition in the Honours List!

    • Blair Waldorf Salad says:
      12 Aug12 August 11:34

      +1. Considering the MBEs that were showered on civil servants for moving analogue tasks to digital versions during lockdown.

  • Jimbob says:
    12 Aug12 August 11:57

    Fairly limited options in the UK outside of London.

    I’m assuming any restaurants signing up to this offer, will need to subsidise some of the cash back.

    • jj says:
      12 Aug12 August 13:24

      The London bias in Amex’s products is depressingly predictable. No doubt they justify it by saying that’s where their cardholders live. Perhaps, though, some of the causality is reversed.

      Whenever I receive a lavishly produced brochure of Amex experiences, I toss it straight in the bin without even opening the envelope; I know that reading it will just make me cross. Does Amex realise how much harm they cause to their brand by simply following the £ signs?

      • Rob says:
        12 Aug12 August 13:58

        That would be a mistake, since the new list has events in Liverpool, Dublin, Manchester x2, Cardiff, East Grinstead and Solihull.

    • Charlie says:
      12 Aug12 August 15:08

      The Ivy – many locations over the U.K.: decent steak tartare with a glass of red wine? What’s to complain about?

      • Thegasman says:
        12 Aug12 August 16:12

        I’m surprised a provincial Ivy is offering anything that isn’t a glorified microwave meal. Not sure I’d trust someone who spends majority of shift microwaving & plating such meals to prep steak tartare either!

  • Travel Strong says:
    12 Aug12 August 12:51

    Excellent! Very helpful, found somewhere to use it next week which I wouldn’t of otherwise.

  • Adrian says:
    12 Aug12 August 13:28

    Hi Can you let Tim know that when you open the Las Vegas one, you get a map of Usak, the street address looks correct but the map is off.

  • qc says:
    12 Aug12 August 13:39

    That link only opens up the maps whereas previously I could see the list of rstaurants their cuisine and address etc.

  • AL says:
    12 Aug12 August 18:58

    Worlds colliding! I’ve not seen Tim for many years. Nice to see him involved in this community, too!

  • Malcolm says:
    13 Aug13 August 11:07

    Gaucho in Newcastle is still on AMEX platinum website but not on this directory. Best to cross check.

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