Best hotels to stay in or best for business?
The best hotels are in downtown: the Omni, Worthington, Courtyard-Blackstone, the Ashton, Etta's Place (B&B).
If it's a working trip, most of the action (or competition, if you wish to view it that way) is in the North Beach/820 area, where there are a lot of hotels ranging from a Courtyard and a Fairfield on down . But construction along 35W around 820 makes getting there a big problem for some
I'm a west-side guy. Bearing that in mind, the La Quinta at Bryant Irvin and I-20 has a staff that, according to what I’ve been told, has been known to turn a blind eye to several gentlemen visiting a lady’s room. There are also few extended-stay places in the Bryant Irvin/820 area (one is next to an NTB, and I've long thought that setting up an incall next to an oil-change place would be a great idea), and a Best Western, a Comfort Suites, and a relatively new and decent Motel 6 along U.S. 377 in Benbrook, where the cops are much more concerned about writing traffic tickets than setting up stings.
There's also a cluster of places on and along Cherry Lane south of I-30 and Calmont between Lackland and Alta Mere, within stumbling distance of Rick's.
As far as dining goes, my list of must-eat places would include:
Joe T. Garcia's (Mexican)
Angelo's and Railhead (barbecue)
Babe's (fried chicken in Burleson or Roanoke or a few other suburban locations)
Hard 8 (barbecue in Roanoke or Coppell)
Texas de Brazil (Brazilian steakhouse downtown)
That's a start. Feel free to PM me with any questions.
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