The Garden City Hotel 45 Seventh Street Garden City, NY (516) 747-3000 www.gardencityhotel.com

The Garden City Hotel is no stranger to #1 ratings.

Top rankings from the Zagat Survey, from best food to best service, are given year-on-year to the Polo Restaurant – including #1 brunch on Long Island – and sister restaurant Rein Bar & Bistro. The New York Times’ Joanne Starkey awarded The Polo Restaurant an “Excellent” rating for exceptional cuisine, service and ambience and declared it “the jewel in the crown of The Garden City Hotel.” USA Today has also cited it as one of America’s top 100 hotel restaurants and #1 in New York. The restaurants are under the direction of award-winning Executive Chef Steven De Bruyn who in 2007 was inducted into the Belgian society of master chefs.

The luxury hotel is one of 120 members, internationally, of the Preferred Hotels and Resorts group having met the highest standards of quality and extraordinary service earning it Preferred Standard of Excellence status.

In 2007, it was voted the Best Hotel in the region by readers of Long Island Business News which noted, “The hotel has hosted prominent guests such as the Vanderbilts, Astors and Belmonts, John F. Kennedy and his wife Jaqueline, New York State Senator Hillary Clinton and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.” Cited the Best Conference/Meeting Facility in the region too, the paper adds, “These elegant Long Island facilities feature 25,000 square feet of flexible meeting, banquet and convention space that can accommodate up to 600 guests in one room.”

The property, with 280 deluxe guestrooms and suites, has been a centerpiece of Garden City, attracting the great and good, since 1874. The hotel was originally designated as the focal point of Garden City – 7,000 acres of land 20 miles from New York City – by Alexander Turney Stewart to attract a famous and wealthy clientele from around the world. One of the most notable visitors, Charles Lindbergh, slept here in 1927 on the night before his trans-Atlantic flight. The hotel remains popular with today’s high-flyers from the worlds of business, sport and entertainment.