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The Platinum Card from American Express is very popular with Head for Points readers, despite the £650 annual fee.

(It may, of course, become even more popular soon now that British Airways is culling many Silver and Gold cardholders, since Platinum cardholders get free access for up to four people to the two independent lounges in Heathrow Terminal 5.)

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2025 Amex Platinum dining and Harvey Nichols credit changes

What tends to keep people paying the fee is the generous benefits package. You can recoup much of your fee in almost-cash benefits, even without considering ‘soft’ benefits like airport lounge access and hotel elite status.

One of these is the Platinum Dining credit.

This has been upgraded for 2025, and the total annual dining credit will now be £400 per calendar year.

You will receive:

  • £200 per year to spend at participating UK restaurants, with a maximum credit of £100 every six months
  • £200 per year to spend at participating restaurants outside the UK, with a maximum credit of £100 every six months

This means that you will need to eat out at least four times over the year to earn the maximum credit.

2025 Amex Platinum dining and Harvey Nichols credit changes

Your 2025 dining credit is now active

Because 2025 sees revised terms for Platinum Dining, you will need to opt-in again. Your existing registration for 2022-2024 is no longer valid.

Registration opened yesterday. It is good until the end of 2026 – you won’t need to register again next year.

Visit the Amex website or app and you should see this under the ‘Offers’ tab. You need to click ‘Save to card’:

Amex Platinum dining benefit 2025

and, separately in the list:

Amex Platinum dining benefit 2025

Once registered, you can pop out for your meal. You don’t need to spend the full £100 in one go. Cashback usually appears a few days after you dine.

The list of participating restaurants is here.

Some countries have been removed for 2025. We have lost Belgium, Finland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Sweden BUT they may appear later. Thailand was not there originally but has now appeared.

Be aware that the list is NOT static. If you book a meal for a few weeks time, double check before you go that the restaurant has not been removed!

PS. American Express has also brought back its ‘20% cashback when eating out’ offer for selected cards. Some restaurants are in both promotions, so you could get 20% cashback AND a flat £100 back too. You could even make a small profit on your meal! We will cover this tomorrow.

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Comments (87)

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  • Cate says:
    8 Jan8 January 07:41

    I ate at Gaucho Newcastle expecting to get the 20% off & the dining credit but only got the dining credit. Spoke to Amex & was categorically told you can’t double up. Is it in the t&c’s anywhere that you can?

    • Scott says:
      8 Jan8 January 08:09

      I ate at Lucky Cat in November, and benefited from both the £150 dining credit (as it was last year), and the 20% credit. I don’t know whether that is a fluke, however. For what it’s worth I also received 10 Avios per £ as my Platinum is linked in the Avios app. I did get an email a few weeks back saying the Avios would be clawed back as they can’t be earned in conjunction with other card offers…but so far they’re still in my BA account!

      • Flier33 says:
        8 Jan8 January 20:21

        I’ve eaten at some other 20% + avios places, one of them has taken the avios back. Should I fight it? One would think they are separate?

    • Mark says:
      8 Jan8 January 08:17

      Interesting this exact same thing happened to me. Ate at Gaucho and only got the dining credit, no 20%>

    • Andrew J says:
      8 Jan8 January 08:30

      They are mistaken. It does double up.

    • Honorary Geordie says:
      8 Jan8 January 09:00

      When I went to Gaucho Newcastle at the end of October both of the offer triggered so it sounds as though something has changed recently and now only one of the two offers will work.

    • Mco says:
      8 Jan8 January 11:21

      I ate at Gaucho Newcastle twice and both times the 20% hasn’t tracked. Its been over a month now.

  • Paul Stevens says:
    8 Jan8 January 07:54

    Any idea how long the 20% off takes to credit?Had a fairly sizeable bill on the 14th Dec at a place that was on the list as of the morning of the 14th? However I check again yesterday and the place is no longer listed….

    • Cate says:
      8 Jan8 January 08:08

      I ate at the Oxo Tower in Dec & got the 20% credit the same day as the debit.

    • Andrew J says:
      8 Jan8 January 08:32

      How long is a ball of string? There seems to be no logic to the application of Amex credits – you can visit somewhere and you get the credit within a day or two, someone else visits the same place on the same day and it takes 3 months.

      • Alan says:
        8 Jan8 January 09:28

        Totally agree plus you randomly may or may not get a confirmation email for redeeming the offer too!

    • Kirsty says:
      8 Jan8 January 12:21

      Ate at La Dame de Pic Pic on 5th Dec, was worried as charge showed as Four Seasons (hotel it is in) but 20% credit in account on 6th. Sorry, probably not what you wanted to hear!

  • Simon says:
    8 Jan8 January 08:34

    The UK credit is great, but the overseas options are so limited as to be largely worthless. Take Las Vegas – which probably has more high end restaurants than anywhere – one option, which is due to close soon anyway.

    • Tubbs says:
      8 Jan8 January 10:01

      Yes, the lack of options in Las Vegas is ridiculous. I’m not sure what determines how a restaurant makes the list.

      You are probably already aware that Bazaar Meat is moving to Palazzo. I don’t have an opening date. There is also the question of whether the restaurant will still be on the list after the move.

      • Nick says:
        8 Jan8 January 12:39

        Restaurants have to opt in, and most likely part-fund the offer. Perhaps ones in Las Vegas think they have enough custom without subsidy? Plenty of people in the US have money to spend, after all… just about the only place in the world at the moment.

        If you look beyond the restaurant name, many of the UK ones are part of a few large chains/groups, not many are actually independent. Chains – even ones that try to mask they they are – tend to have much higher margins and a marketing budget.

  • Rob says:
    8 Jan8 January 08:48

    No, she had always been Gold until I upgraded her.

  • Christine says:
    8 Jan8 January 10:29

    I didn’t have the global dining offer showing on my card so contacted Amex via chat and they added it for me.

    The list of restaurants abroad is considerably shorter this year so not sure I’ll actually make use of it. Hopefully they’ll add more to it throughout the year.

  • Maples says:
    8 Jan8 January 10:37

    They should just make it a category credit for restaurants.

    • JDB says:
      8 Jan8 January 11:36

      They won’t though because that would not only require Amex to pay 100% but also entail greater take up which wouldn’t suit either.

  • Paul says:
    8 Jan8 January 11:37

    This is an exceptionally poor offer. 15 countries on a so called global offer. Just 5 in Europe, nothing in South America or the Middle East. Further dumbing down of the product. Shameful that they can call I a global offer

    • Rhys says:
      8 Jan8 January 11:49

      Yes, getting £100 for free is the absolute worst! Give it back!

      • Maples says:
        8 Jan8 January 12:10

        But you’re paying for the card and therefore it’s not really free. £650 on a card, fine, but then everything that comes with the card is free? What are you really paying for, then? Just the metal card?

        In the end, I think it just depends on how you value it. I personally don’t see it as being free – maybe you consider it free if you got the card just for hotel status, car hire/travel insurance. Paul also has a valid point that when it’s called “global”, you’d assume there’s more reach rather than 15 countries. However, I wouldn’t call it poor, it’s just… meh.

      • Scaz says:
        8 Jan8 January 13:44

        Free?

      • LHRBNE says:
        9 Jan9 January 00:23

        In fairness, Rhys, Paul has a valid point in terms of it being much more restricted than it has been in the last two years, and in that time, the card fees have increased. It’s a shame, for example, that they knocked Thailand off the list this time around for International spending; there were some good ones there.

        • AeT says:
          9 Jan9 January 11:14

          Has AMEX actually confirmed those countries have indeed be dropped? I suspect there could be an IT / database update issue and those countries / restaurants will come back online once it has been resolved. Doesn’t make sense to entirely drops hundreds of restaurants and a half-dozen countries.

  • Joe says:
    8 Jan8 January 13:08

    Was hoping to use it in Amsterdam this weekend. Well and truly screwed over. Time to cancel I guess.

    • tusker says:
      8 Jan8 January 17:55

      Totally agreed. Some time ago I booked a table at Comme chez Soi in Brussels for later this month on the basis that it was on the overseas list and gaining a place in a Michelin Restaurant where you have to pay a significant deposit a month out isn’t like rolling up to a local Burger King on spec, only to find the whole of Belgium now excluded.

      • BBbetter says:
        8 Jan8 January 20:52

        lol, from booking a Michelin starred restaurant that requires a deposit to getting frustrated over not being able to spend £150.

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