Hello all. My husband and I are going on a quick adult-only getaway to Chicago this summer. We will land Friday morning and leave Saturday around lunchtime.

I'm looking for someplace to stay for one night, preferably in the river north/gold coast area - I don't care about a particular chain or earning points (heresy!). I'd like to stay at a higher-end property - while I know the relative locations of all the hotels, I don't know what is worth the prices being charged. If you had one night in Chicago where would you want to stay, assuming you are in the lowest-level room in a hotel? The only thing we have on our agenda is to eat a meal at Frontera Grill, so someplace near-ish to there would be nice. Near-ish equals roughly 12 blocks or so. Also, we will be taking public transit everywhere, so someplace convenient to the L would be nice.

Are there any other restaurants we should look at while we are there? We like food, dont tend to order a ton of wine or other drinks (but could be convinced to), have no upper limit on our budget. Other than Frontera (where we went for dinner before we got engaged), I don't really remember the names of restaurants around town except the ones I frequented when I lived there, and I would prefer not to go back to Taco Burrito Palace #2.

Our plan for the day is to wander around, maybe do the architecture boat tour, maybe go to a museum, maybe sit at a bar for an afternoon. Any other tips for a summer Friday?

Thanks so much.