Charlie Trotter has done it again. So has The Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago. They’re among 42 establishments recently awarded the Five-Star status for excellence by the Mobil Travel Guide. They were the only five-star winners in Chicago. It’s the sixth consecutive win for Charlie Trotter’s restaurant and the second in a row for the Four Seasons Hotel.
In the hotel category, Chicago’s Four-Star winners are The Fairmont Hotel Chicago; Renaissance Chicago Hotel; The Westin River North Chicago; Omni Chicago Hotel; and The Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
Chicago restaurants awarded Four Stars are Ambria, Arun’s, Everest, Harvest on Huron, Les Nomades, The Ritz-Carlton Dining Room, Seasons (Four Seasons Hotel), Spiaggia and Tru. Suburban winners are Carlos’ (Highland Park), Trio (Evanston) and Le Francais (Wheeling).
Other restaurants that have six consecutive five-star wins are Lespinasse in New York’s St. Regis Hotel and the Restaurant at the Mansion on Turtle Creek in Dallas. Both hotels also got five stars.
Leading with most consecutive five-star wins (37) is Maisonette in Cincinnati and The Inn at Little Washington (Washington, Va.) with 11.
In Michigan, four-star lodging winners are Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids; The Ritz-Carlton, Dearborn; The Townsend Hotel, Birmingham. Four-star restaurants are The Lark, Bloomfield Hills; Tapawingo, Ellsworth; and Tribute, Farmington.
Wisconsin’s four-star winners for lodging are The American Club, Kohler, and Canoe Bay, Rice Lake. Restaurants getting four stars are Grenadier’s and Sanford, both in Milwaukee.
A complete list of winners will be listed in “Mobil Travel Guide America’s Best Hotels and Restaurants: The Four- and Five-Star Winners of 2001” ($12), which should be available in bookstores in mid March.