Where are the Best seats at the Ford Center for Performing Arts?|135582

Also, what hotels around the center do you recommend? And restaurants.

I_m assuming you mean Ford Oriental Theater--we have sat in the front row of the first balcony, in the center of the main floor, and off to the right, and they all worked out really really well. The one exception is if you_re going purely for music, most theaters have acoustics that carry the sound along the ceiling so if you_re there just to listen, sit in the back row of the top balcony! (My mother, a musician, taught me that, and it_s true--especially with opera!)

Assuming you have no budget constraints, here are some hotels that I_ve enjoyed in the area: The Renaissance Hotel and Hard Rock Hotel are nice, as is the W (there two in Chicago, you want the one in City Center not on the lake).

Restaurants that are well-loved in the area include: Burrito Beach (cheap fast food, but boy are those burritos good!), Heaven on 7 (Cajun food, casual), Rosebud (old-school Italian steakhouse), Morton_s (old Chicago Machine steakhouse), and Nick_s Fishmarket...or walk a little further to my favorite steakhouses Keefer_s and Ruth_s Chris (both extreme on the customer service scales) or take a cab to Navy Pier and go to Riva (not better food than the other places I_ve mentioned, but it_s good, and it_s on a beautiful Pier!).