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HotelChatter - Tag: hotel restaurants http://www.hotelchatter.com/ Hotel Reviews, Hotel Ratings, Hotel Openings en-us Copyright 2008 - SFO Media 2009-11-25T00:32:01Z HotelChatter HotelChatter HotelChatter http://www.hotelchatter.com/images/hcwhite.jpg http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/hotel%20restaurants Boston: What We Ate at Woodward in the Ames Hotel http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/24/102048/59 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/30451/Woodward_menu.jpg" class="top"> When we <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/23/95313/552/hotels/Inside_The_Ames_Hotel_in_Boston">checked into</a> the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Ames+Hotel/local/1568">Ames Hotel</a> last week, one of the things we were most looking forward to was the food. The lobster sandwich we ordered from the room service menu (almost identical to the menu in the restaurant) was generous and tasty, served with thin, salty fries, just the way we like them. (Although, as we mentioned yesterday, our beer arrived 20 minutes after the food.) Breakfast Woodward was fairly quiet at 9 a.m. on Saturday, so we snagged a prime spot in one of the chesterfield booths along the front window. Aside from the booths, there was a mix of small tables with white Windsor chairs, and bar-height tables with stools. MsRebecca 2009-11-24T10:41:23-05:00 New York : The Empire Hotel Celebrates Chuck Bass With Gossip Girl Cocktails http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/23/152732/96 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/6193/Tartlet.jpg" class="top"> If you've been paying attention in the slightest to this most recent season of Gossip Girl, then you'll have noticed how New York's <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Empire+Hotel+NYC/local/1578">Empire Hotel</a> has become one of the characters, after it was bought by Chuck Bass. Now that the hotel is making appearances on TV, the real life property believes it should embrace the connection by debuting "Gossip Girl cocktails." Concocted by the Empire's cocktail consultant Somer Perez, there are drinks for each Gossip Girl main character (even the dudes!). You can find them being served in the hotel's Lobby Bar, and each cocktail is $15. There's even an "XOXO" cocktail, with secret ingredients they'll never tell. After the jump, the rest of the JetSetCD 2009-11-23T16:33:01-05:00 West Hollywood: We Do Lunch at Gordon Ramsay's Boxwood Cafe at the London WeHo http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/23/133748/01 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/Boxwood_sign.JPG" class="top">Though famously cantankerous chef <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/3/9/154122/3852/hotels/Gordon_Ramsay_at_the_London_LA_In_Name_Only">Gordon Ramsay</a> hasnt been seen around the kitchen at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+London+West+Hollywood/local/1151">The London West Hollywood</a> lately, the restaurant there still bears his name. Its also still pretty empty. Maybe all that will change with the recent opening of Ramsays new Boxwood Café in the front section of the restaurant space. The new Boxwood is much more casual than Ramsays main restaurant, and is the second installment of this franchise for Ramsay. The first opened at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/The+Berkeley/ian/172845">Berkeley Hotel</a> in London in 2003. No white tablecloths and hushed teams of waiters clearing every stray crumb here. Instead, the service is friendly but not overbearing, and you can get every meal of the day EricRosen 2009-11-23T15:07:25-05:00 Hamburg: Design Hotels Now Have Meat Lockers On View (At Least In Hamburg) http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/22/184911/72 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/SIDE_Hamburg_meat_drying.jpg" class="top"> No prizes for guessing what the menu focuses on at a restaurant called the [m]eatery. Yep, it's the perfect restaurant for meat-lovers and it's just opened at the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Side+Design+Hotel/ian/194544">SIDE Hotel</a> in Hamburg, northern Germany, which is part of the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/tag/Design%20Hotels">Design Hotels group</a>. Basically, it's a fancy steakhouse with a bunch of steak and burgers to choose from (cue jokes about eating a hamburger in Hamburg), but it also offers fish steaks and a couple of vegetarian choices.The big selling point for the [m]eatery is that it's also got a special meat locker room where you can see the dry-aging process for the meat. Looking through a glass wall, you can watch meat dry ... but amandak 2009-11-23T09:14:32-05:00 Seattle: Al Gore Keeps It Local at Hotel Vintage Park http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2009/11/20/9525/6167 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/1425/algore30rock.jpg" class="top"> If you watched "30 Rock" last night then you may have seen former Vice President Al Gore make a confusing cameo as an eco-concerned janitor for Rockefeller Center (above.) But if you were dining at Tulio Ristorante inside the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Hotel+Vintage+Park+-+A+Kimpton+Hotel/ian/130132">Hotel Vintage Park</a> in Seattle the other night, then you would have seen Al Gore live, in person. The veep was in town for a town hall meeting to promote his new book, Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. He stopped in at Tulio which serves authentic Italian cuisine, for some halibut washed down with cabernet. According to the hotel peeps, he was very gracious to the staff and shook everyone's hand who came juliana 2009-11-20T10:05:47-05:00 Search HotelChatter Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/