The Best Hotels, Restaurants and Night Clubs in Chicago

Located only steps from the Magnificent Mile and North Michigan Avenue’s best shopping – and just minutes from Chicago’s business and financial centres.

A landmark of refined comfort, elegant luxurious in every detail, a fresh contemporary inviting ambience, and all guest rooms feature breath-taking views of Lake Michigan or the Chicago skyline from the 30th to the 46th floor of the tower. A luxurious Spa with soundproofed treatment rooms for peace and privacy.

Excellent service, five star elegance in every detail.

Located downtown in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, dramatic views of Michigan Avenue, Historic Water Tower Square, a vibrant culture and cityscape, and Lake Michigan.

A chic ambiance, exquisite elegant rooms and suites with sweeping views of the Chicago cityscape. With chic, modern décor, all luxurious accommodations feature signature Hyatt beds, 42” flat-screen TVs, Geneva sound system, DVD players, a contemporary desk set, mini bar, iconic Eames chair, contemporary original works of art, and 24-hour room service. Relax in spa-like bathrooms with oversized tubs and walk-in showers. Experience the art of elevated living at this award-winning boutique hotel.

Highly trained staff provide very professional services.

A boutique hotel that has been designed for living; a spa that offers an artful juxtaposition that balances the beauty of natural elements with state-of-the-art technologies, natural, sustainable woods, warm earth tones and flawless details, making guestrooms and suites ideal for boutique lifestyle. Personalized service blends with modern technology and luxurious furnishings create a reel luxury feeling.

The philosophy of wellness and individuality continues at the spa. Accessible and inviting services are tailored to meet unique needs, to relax, rejuvenate and inspired.

The Drake rises up over Lake Michigan’s Oak Street Beach, overlooking the majesty of Lake Michigan, rightly situated at the top of the Magnificent Mile, affords easy access to the city's most exclusive shopping, nightlife and dining.

Guest rooms are distinguished by comfort, elegance - high style furniture, HD TVs, and Italian marble bathrooms, enhancing the luxurious ambience, distinctively furnished and diligently designed.

Suites are designed to the highest standards of hospitality, the perfect combination of classic elegance and modern conveniences, brightly lit work and relaxation space, with stunning waterfront views.

High professional service.

Perfectly situated in the heart of the Windy City, The Gwen is located on the Magnificent Mile in the landmark McGraw-Hill Building. The reimagined icon is still adorned with panels created in 1929 by sculptress Gwen Lux, the hotel’s namesake.

Very elegant and airy rooms and suites, enhanced by a neutral palette, feature first class beds and beddings, a tranquil space for relaxation, a wide array of guestroom amenities to enhance the experience for the guests, and beautifully appointed bathrooms showcase marble touches and an oversized shower. There are grandeur of upscale in the comfortable accommodations.

High professional service.

Conveniently located downtown in the Chicago Loop, amidst the city’s bustling financial and theatre districts, surrounded by the foremost sights like Grant Park and State Street’s shopping Mecca.

Step through the welcoming doors and transport you back in time to an era of elegant hobnobbing and glamour, a time of bygone luxury via retro, comfy rooms rich with Art Deco style and vintage ambience. A lively and original hotel, bright colors, good-looking furnishings, and suites with Jacuzzi bathtubs, the perfect spot to lounge after a day spent touring one of Americas most busy cities.

Chef Curtis Duffy's 8- to 10-course tasting menu focused on proteins from the land and sea, seasonal vegetables complemented with fruits, grains, seeds and nuts. The menu is seasonal and changes frequently, and typically lasts 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Wine pairings or wine by bottle or glass.



Outstanding Cuisine!

Intentionally refine and rustic, but chic setting, custom an old print shop, modern chandeliers, stylish without being sleek, warm and inviting, comfortable yet lively.

Chef Zimmerman creates inventive seasonal American cuisine, rooted in tradition, melding rustic sensibility with contemporary flair, and showcases the best produce of the season. We enjoyed salad of house smoked trout, fennel, apple, dill, pumpernickel as starter followed by grilled filet mignon, maitake mushrooms, bone marrow custard, bordelaise as main. Top cuisine.

Sepia really celebrates American tradition – with an excellent modern twist.

A nice and warm restaurant, pacific shades of brown, grey and taupe, simply luxury but not pretentious or stuffy.

Chef Carrie Nahabedian takes you on a journey of the vibrant, sun-kissed coastal cuisines of Southern Europe and Northern Africa – a cuisine inspired by the great coasts of the Mediterranean, including Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Tunisia, Lebanon, Israel and Morocco.

We chose Island Creek Oysters and Burrata from Puglia as starters, Pan Roasted Skate Wing and Ribeye of Beef with Melted Roquefort as mains, all wonderful paired with well-balanced wines.

Excellent Cooking.

Located on the 16th floor of Trump Tower Chicago, this rooftop restaurant includes an indoor bar and dining room, as well as expansive outdoor seating.

Terrace 16 offers fresh options for a variety of tastes and preferences. An ever-changing menu features new American flavours, allowing ingredients to speak simply and powerfully for themselves.

Fine dining all punctuated by breathtaking views of one of the city’s most iconic landmarks.

Piccolo Sogno (“little dream”) is a modern elegant restaurant with bold blue walls, marble bar and terrazzo floors.

Chef Tony Priolo presents a menu of fresh, seasonal rustic Italian Cuisine, fine food prepared by hand, based on special produce such as vegetables from local organic farmers and fish from the Mediterranean, and he offers a wide selection of regional Italian dishes – from homemade pastas and hand-tossed pizzas prepared in the restaurant’s wood-burning oven, and of course homemade gelato and sorbet. Our favorite "paste" are Gnocchi (rosemary and potato dumplings, oven dried tomatoes, braised chicken, leeks, and parmesan), followed with "secondi" Anatra Arrosto (half roasted duck, Tuscan kale, fennel sausage, roasted cauliflower puree) or Coniglio Alla Cacciatore (hunter style braised rabbit, tomatoes, peppers, oli ves, mushrooms, soffrito, soft semolina). This is the true Italian dining experience.

And Ciro Longobardo presents an impressive all-Italian wine list, poured by the glass, carafe and bottle, perfect for sipping on the patio on warm days and breezy nights.
Buon appetito.

The Green Mill is sophisticated informality, a warm glowing atmosphere steeped in the heady sounds of the early ’30s and ’40s. Uniquely comfortable to all audiences from the sequined Saturday night date to the progressively dressed offbeat student, the magic of the Mill is that the audience commingles in its mutual respect for the music.

Today the Green Mill maintains an authenticity of the ‘40s in service, price and music. Jazz is still played as by the legendary figures – all capture the broad spectrum of jazz from its root rhythms in New Orleans to New York avant-garde. Deep smoky jazz sounds fill the club in the early morning hours when soulful musicians continue to express their love of jazz by jamming ’til the early dawn.

If walls could speak, they would tell the real Chicago jazz-history.

The premier blues-club in America, owned by the legendary Buddy Guy, a genuine American treasure and one of the final surviving connections to an historic era in the country’s musical evolution.

New local or national blues bands every night.

At age 82, Buddy Guy is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a major influence on rock titans like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton.

Full menu and bar.

PRYSM – located in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighbourhood just minutes from downtown Chicago’s best hotels and restaurants.

This high-end nightclub venue features 2 floors, 3 fully equipped bars, a state-of-the-art DJ booth, intelligent lighting throughout, lounge seating and more.

PRYSM is home to some of the best American DJs. In an open space right in front of the DJ booth it is all about dancing, outstanding light shows, falling confetti, smoke machines and expert staff focusing on getting the crowd energized.

Table service packages offer select seating in the centre of the club's first floor or overlooking the DJ booth on the second floor.

Blue Chicago is presenting the best in authentic Chicago Blues in a warm and friendly atmosphere, an electric style of blues music, offering the best of Chicago's blues musicians.

Throughout the years Blue Chicago has showcased all the great blues names – Koko Taylor, Bonnie Lee, Karen Carroll, Johnny B Moore, Eddie Clearwater, Eddie Shaw, the late Buddy Scott, and many more.

Conveniently located in the River North Entertainment district. Open 7 nights a week.

The Bassment is a live music cocktail lounge, located in the River North neighborhood of Chicago below The Hampton Social.

Guests enter through a secret door and into a welcoming greeting room. When the black curtain is pulled back, a large, comfortable, modern lounge awaits - the design includes gold accents throughout, brick walls, a mixture of uniquely designed velvet and leather couches and a full stage.

Get a front row seat for some music or hang out in back where the cocktails are flowing. Either way, you won't want to be anywhere else.