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Guests sleep there and eat elsewhere.
But as hotels compete to attract the lucrative business travel market, even chain properties are recognizing the advantage of offering cachet as well as convenience. And thanks to a healthy economy, increasingly sophisticated guests are expecting both. Especially when it comes to food. Moncreiff assembles the magazine's annual Hot List of the year's best new hotels and restaurants. The idea of a restaurant as nutrition is ludicrous.