AAA auto club sends inspectors to over 1,000 hotels and restaurants every week and has now published its 2016 list of Five-Diamond and Four-Diamond Restaurants. Here are the Cincinnati restaurants that made these lists:

Five-Diamond Restaurants
Orchids at Palm Court is the only five-diamond restaurant in Ohio. (There are 74 five-diamond restaurants in North America representing .2 percent of 30,000 restaurants with a diamond rating.) See a list of five-diamond restaurants here.

Four-Diamond Restaurants
Only 2.3 percents of the 28,000 restaurants are approved with a four-diamond ranking. The Cincinnati-based restaurants include:

• Boca
• Nicola’s
• The Celestial Steakhouse
• The Palace Restaurant

See a list of all four-diamond restaurants here.

What’s your favorite local restaurant?