Chicago restaurants are swimming in diamonds — AAA five-diamond ratings, that is.

The city now has as many top-ranked restaurants from the travel industry organization as New York.

Heathrow, Fla.-based AAA released the full list of its 2014 five- and four-diamond ratings today, though a couple of restaurants bragged about their status when they were notified in October.

(Click here to read more about AAA inspectors and how they rate restaurants.)

Restaurants are notified of their diamond ratings throughout the year, but the company doesn't publish the complete list until January, said Beth Mosher, spokeswoman for AAA Chicago.

Seven Chicago restaurants earned a five-diamond rating: Acadia, Alinea, Arun's, Everest, Grace, Sixteen and Tru.

Restaurant ratings are conducted by one of 65 AAA evaluators who anonymously visit restaurants and hotels.

The list of four-diamond restaurants:

Blackbird

Boka

L2O

Les Nomades

Lockwood

Masaki (new)

MK

Moto

Naha

Next

Pelago Ristorante (new)

Shanghai Terrance

Spiaggia

Topolobampo

Tallgrass

—Lorene Yue