Peninsula’s Lobby elite in hotel dining
BY GARY STOLLER
If you’re a traveler to Chicago and you don’t want to leave your hotel to eat, look to The Lobby in the Peninsula, says a new ranking.
Travel and dining guide publisher Zagat Survey chose the best hotel restaurants in 25 cities frequently visited by business travelers.
In Chicago, tops is The Lobby at 108 E. Superior, says Zagat.
“In an amazing space with 20-foot floor-to-ceiling windows, this North River restaurant offers European seafood cuisine, genteel service and discreet celebrity watching,” Zagat says.
The cost for dinner: about $70 per person, with one drink and tip.
Every one of the nation’s top 25 has the potential to give diners a taste of food heaven, Zagat Survey says.
“Twenty years ago, hotel food was like country club food — OK but not exciting and never top of the line,” said Zagat Survey CEO Tim Zagat. “In the last 10 years, hotels decided they had to have outstanding restaurants.”
Hotel managers realized a first-class restaurant is a good way to advertise and promote a hotel and its brand, Zagat says.
The food at many of Zagat Survey’s hotel restaurant picks is so innovative that first-class may be an understatement.
Zagat Survey rates three hotel restaurants — L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Palme d’Or at Miami’s Biltmore Hotel and Victoria & Albert’s at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Orlando — as the best of all restaurants in their respective cities.
Gannett News Service
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