AAdvantage Dining: earn 1–5 miles per $1 at 22,276 restaurants

Earn AAdvantage miles at participating restaurants when you pay with a credit or debit card linked to AAdvantage Dining; up to 5 miles per $1 depending on membership level.

Join AAdvantage Dining See all 1,411 in New York

Restaurants: 22,276
Cities: 3492
Top tier: 1–5 miles per $1; VIP
Monthly cap: None listed

How AAdvantage Dining works, in 4 steps

Join for free with your AAdvantage number.
Link a credit or debit card.
Dine at a participating restaurant and pay with a linked card.
AAdvantage miles post to your account; the amount depends on your membership level.

3 tiers, from 1 mile per $1 to 1–5 miles per $1

Tier	Earn	How to qualify
BasicWhere you startJoin and link a card; opt out of program emails	1 mile per $1	Join and link a card; opt out of program emails
SelectOpt in to program emails	3 miles per $1	Opt in to program emails
VIPAfter 11 qualified dines in a calendar year (the 12th earns at VIP), while opted in to program emails	5 miles per $1	After 11 qualified dines in a calendar year (the 12th earns at VIP), while opted in to program emails

The 5 best cards to link to AAdvantage Dining

What a $100 dinner earns with each card linked, at the Basic tier: the card's own rate plus the program's. Dollar values are estimates at our valuations.

American Express Gold Card$325 annual fee≈$7.307.3%4x Membership Rewards points≈$6.00+100 AAdvantage miles≈$1.30≈$7.307.3%
Chase Sapphire Preferred Card$95 annual fee≈$6.706.7%3x Chase Ultimate Rewards points≈$5.40+100 AAdvantage miles≈$1.30≈$6.706.7%
Chase Sapphire Reserve$795 annual fee≈$6.706.7%3x Chase Ultimate Rewards points≈$5.40+100 AAdvantage miles≈$1.30≈$6.706.7%
Citi Strata Premier Card$95 annual fee≈$6.106.1%3x Citi ThankYou Points≈$4.80+100 AAdvantage miles≈$1.30≈$6.106.1%
Wells Fargo Autograph Journey Visa Credit Card$95 annual fee≈$5.655.6%3x Wells Fargo Rewards points≈$4.35+100 AAdvantage miles≈$1.30≈$5.655.6%

One Rewards Network program per card. A card linked to AAdvantage Dining can't also earn TrueBlue Dining, Eat Around Town, MileagePlus Dining, SkyMiles Dining, Rapid Rewards Dining, Hilton Honors Dining, IHG Dine & Earn, Dine Out with Wyndham, Atmos Rewards Dining, or Rakuten Dining, so put your best dining card on the program whose currency you value most and link your other cards elsewhere.

8 restaurants that take AAdvantage Dining

Hercules Churrasqueria Bar & Restaurant of Bay Shore
up to12%
Latin · $$$ · Suffolk
American Express Gold Card + Upside
AAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+9 more
(h)ours at Manifest - 3rd Street
up to20%
American · $ · Union Market
American Express Gold Card + inKind
Resy creditAAdvantage Dining5xinKind20%+9 more
&Bake Cafe By Take Ur Seat Too
up to12%
Dessert/Bakery · $$ · Rancho Cucamonga
American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining
AAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+8 more
&Pizza
up to12%
Pizza · $$ · Bergen
American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining
AAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+9 more
#1 AYCE Sushi
up to12%
$ · Peoria Crossing
American Express Gold Card + Upside
Resy creditAAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8x+11 more
#VYBE
up to12%
Bar/Club/Lounge · Golden Triangle
American Express Gold Card + Rakuten Dining
AAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+9 more
1 + 1 Hibachi Express
up to12%
Japanese · $$ · Neabsco
American Express Gold Card + Upside
AAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more
100 Montaditos
up to12%
Tapas/Small Plates · $$ · Doral
American Express Gold Card + Upside
AAdvantage Dining5xHilton Honors Dining8xIHG Dine & Earn8x+10 more

4 terms to know

A card can be linked to only one Rewards Network dining program at a time; linking it to another program removes it from this one.
Up to twelve cards can be linked.
The program sets no overall limit on what a member can earn; each restaurant sets its own limits, shown on its page.
VIP earned between January 1 and December 31 applies for the rest of that year and the whole following year.

1 source, verified Oct 9, 2026

Verified against the program's published terms on Oct 9, 2026.

Program terms source

4 questions, answered

How much does AAdvantage Dining earn?

New members earn 1 mile per $1 at the Basic tier. Select earns 3 miles per $1 (opt in to program emails); VIP earns 5 miles per $1 (after 11 qualified dines in a calendar year (the 12th earns at vip), while opted in to program emails).

Does AAdvantage Dining stack with my credit card's rewards?

Yes. AAdvantage Dining pays AAdvantage miles on top of whatever your card earns at the restaurant. With the American Express Gold Card linked, a $100 dinner earns $6.00 from the card and $1.30 from AAdvantage Dining: about $7.30 together at our valuations.

Can I link a card to AAdvantage Dining and another Rewards Network program?

No. A card can be linked to only one Rewards Network program at a time, so a card in AAdvantage Dining can't also earn TrueBlue Dining, Eat Around Town, MileagePlus Dining, SkyMiles Dining, Rapid Rewards Dining, Hilton Honors Dining, IHG Dine & Earn, Dine Out with Wyndham, Atmos Rewards Dining, or Rakuten Dining. Link different cards to different programs.

Where can I use AAdvantage Dining?

At 22,276 participating restaurants we list across 3,492 cities, the most in New York (1,411). Restaurants join and leave programs, so check the program's own listing before you go.

Some restaurant addresses, phone numbers, websites and cuisines come from Overture Maps Foundation open data (Meta and Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0; Foursquare, Apache 2.0; AllThePlaces, CC0 1.0). Overture attribution Some neighbourhoods come from Who's On First boundaries (CC-BY 4.0). Who's On First licenses Some opening hours, phone numbers, websites and cuisines are © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). OpenStreetMap copyright