The Restaurant at The Peninsula Chicago

""From the elegant lobby to the ultra-luxe guest rooms to the top-notch spa and restaurants, The Peninsula delivers an all around exceptional experience"

"The hotel takes up a full city block, and you could spend days sampling all of the offerings: tea service by day, a chocolate buffet Friday and Saturday night, three onsite restaurants, a large gym, an indoor pool, 30 different fitness classes, the spa, and, in the winter, a skating rink, which donates all proceeds to charity"

"So will the Peninsula's four restaurants, including the acclaimed Avenues (now helmed by chef Curtis Duffy) and the Chinese jewel-box Shanghai Terrace (dine alfresco in the summer)"

"On weekend nights the Peninsula's soaring lobby-level restaurant—aptly named the Lobby—becomes a sweet fantasia, centered on an overflowing chocolate buffet; guest rooms are pretty sweet, too, with plush pillow-top beds and bedside consoles that control both the TV and the "do-not-disturb" light"

"The surrounding neighborhood is full of upscale shops and restaurants, and the hotel’s within walking distance of some of the best sights in Chicago"