Chicago's New Hotel Restaurants Become Culinary Hot Spots

If you want to check out Chicago's hottest restaurants, you'll have to to go a hotel. Whether it's the cool atmosphere or the delish food, hotel restaurants have become the big trend around town. We'll give you three of the best new hotel restaurants in Chicago:

Pelago in Raffaello Hotel
This Italian restaurant adds seafood to the mix with dishes like from-scratch ravioli filled with Dover sole and caviar. It also offers an affordable yet yummy lunch menu of dishes like tagliolini with organic spinach, crab meat and roasted garlic. But whichever meal you choose, you know it'll be good since Chef Mauro Mafrici snagged a Michelin star at his former Tribeca restaurant Lo Scalco. But the atmosphere is just as much of a draw, with porcelain chandeliers dangling above white chairs and tablecloths and aquamarine damask banquettes.

Elate at Hotel Felix
This urban American cuisine restaurant focuses on seasonal ingredients. You'll find them in dishes like the plum and goat cheese tart with herb salad and walnut vinaigrette and the slow-baked organic salmon with citrus, watercress and pesto. You can chomp on waffle potato chips dipped in a truffle sauce while sitting in the warm brown, red and bronze room watching Clark Street from the rustic restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows.

Cibo Matto in theWit
At this Loop restaurant on the second floor of theWit, foodies will like that a chef's table is available near the semi-open kitchen. But everyone will enjoy the contemporary Italian fare, including bucatini carbonara with pecorino romano, pancetta, duck egg and cracked black pepper and grilled braised short rib with ricotta creamed spinach. A nice bonus when you get the check: a gratis shot of limoncello.

[Photo: theWit's Facebook]

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