The Restaurant at The Colonnade Hotel

"In an "excellent" Back Bay location "within an easy walk of shops and restaurants", this "wonderful", 11-story boutique veteran is headlined by a "cool", "relaxed" seasonal rooftop pool, "amazing" bar and a "very good" French bistro; a "welcoming" staff provides "accommodating" service, and the "spacious", "stylish" rooms have been modernized in a "contemporary" style and feature floor-to-ceiling windows, flat-screen TVs and Keurig coffeemakers"

"The art deco-inspired bar offers great cocktails and happy hour deals, and the excellent ground floor restaurant, Brasserie Jo, was well ahead of Boston's current taste for authentic French brasseries"

"Brasserie Jo, the chic and lively French restaurant, draws eager patrons to its vibrant confines, reminiscent of a favored eatery off the Champs Elysees"

"Brasserie Jo, the chic and lively French restaurant, draws eager patrons to its vibrant confines, reminiscent of a favored eatery off the Champs Elysees, complete with mussels and hand-cut frites, Toulouse sausage, coq au vin, and a $36 pan-seared tenderloin with ruby pommes"