Zomato Valentines Infographic

If you were like me who values every single minute of time, you would probably search for places where you can celebrate a memorable event in our lives. This love month, it is best to plan where to take our loved ones without the fuzz.

What better than finding that one person (friend, lover, confidant) who loves food like you do, to accompany you for that perfect dessert, dinner and drinks this Valentine’s Day.

Valentine’s day is the biggest day for dining out, trumping popular nights out such as New Years. The highest traffic day [on Zomato] on Valentine’s day is 61% higher than any other day in the year.

Across the world we also found that different timings work well for people to meet on Valentine’s. Couples in most places (Delhi, Manila, Dubai, Auckland and London) prefer to go for an evening meal or dinner on Valentine's except for Johannesburg where lunchtime traffic shows a spike.

Did you know that women search for more romantic places to dine at as compared to men on Valentine’s day? Women do tend to like Valentine’s day, at least a little bit more than men. Quite on the contrary to what many people would assume, women were found to be much more active on our Valentine's day special collection - female users comprising 61% of the total visits to this collection during the Valentine’s week.

In most cases, women users dominated the male user base in Valentine’s special collection too. Trends also show that women, on the average, viewed restaurants priced 32% higher than those looked up by the male user base. Love, it turns out, doesn't just require warmer hearts. It requires deeper pockets too.

So, this love month, invest in people who will feed you as much goodness as you do them. If you plan to take them to the restaurant of your fancy, go visit Zomato and see what the foodies out there has to say about their experience.