Hotels are doubling down on big-time restaurant offerings, hoping to entice local diners as well as convention-goers with name-brand chefs and eye-catching designs. Chefs, meanwhile, appear eager to partner with hotels to shoulder some of the financial risk of opening a new operation.
We’ve already told you about Wylie Dufresne’s foray into luxe doughnuts at Brooklyn’s William Vale Hotel. And we’ve already alerted you to keep Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s soon-to-open spot at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills on the radar, along with Michael Mina’s Bourbon Steak that’s headed to the new JW Marriott Nashville hotel.
Fast casual may be where it’s at, but there are plenty of all-day, full-service developments at these hotel-housed concepts worth watching.