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Accolades

Graves 601 Hotel…the hottest most fashionable hotel in town
 - New York Times Sunday 2006

Gold List Reserve Top Hotels in the World - Condé Nast Traveler 2005

Award of Excellence - Wine Spectator, 2005

Diners' Choice Award Best Stylish Atmosphere - Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, 2005

Diners' Choice Award Best Luxe Dining - Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, 2005

Best Sexiest Food - Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, 2005

Best Celebrity-Gawking Restaurant - Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine, 2005

Top 100 Clubs Worldwide - Nightclub and Bar Magazine, 2004

Best Bar- Meeting MidAmerica Magazine, 2004

Gold Key Grand prize Lobby - Interior Design and Hospitality Design Magazine, 2004

Gold Key Grand prize Lounge - Interior Design and Hospitality Design Magazine, 2004

Gold Key Finalist Guest Room - Interior Design and Hospitality Design Magazine, 2004

Hot List Best 100 Hotels Worldwide - Conde Nast Traveler, 2004

Hot List Best 30 Nightclubs Worldwide - Conde Nast Traveler, 2004

Best Roll-Out Concept Hotel - Hospitality Design Magazine, 2004

Award of Excellence, Wine Spectator, 2004

Best of the Twin Cities Hotel - City Pages, 2004

Best of the Twin Cities Restaurant- City Pages, 2004

Award of Excellence - ESNY Lumen Awards, 2004

The Best of Restaurants - Star Tribune Minneapolis, 2003

Best Roll Out Concept Hotel of the Year - Hospitality Design, 2003

Best Luxury Hotel - City Search: Audience winner, 2003

Most Romantic Hotel - City Search: Audience winner, 2003

Best Business Hotel - City Search: Audience winner, 2003

Best Hotel Dining - City Search: Audience winner, 2003

Shining Moments - Interior Design, 2003

Press Quotes

"By far the city's finest hotel, this sleek lodging is contemporary to the core. The design is tops - from the wood-grain wall coverings to the flat-screen TVs - and the service equals it. Cosmos, the hotel's restaurant, is among the best in town and offers a lively bar scene."

          ~ House Beautiful Magazine, New York, September 2005 Issue
             Places To Stay - Graves 601 Hotel Minneapolis

"the hotel's hybrid of SoHo slick and Minnesota nice, turning Graves 601 and its restaurant, bar and nightclub into the weekend spot for the local über-hip."

          ~ NEAL KARLEN, New York Times, December 7, 2003

"The first North American branch of Graves 601's new Art Tech properties, this 255-room downtown hotel blends de rigueur aesthetics (blond-wood walls, mod '60s-style furniture), luxury-hotel amenities (a gym, a spa), and local flavor (photos by area artists). The result is extreme comfort in a postmodern package that ranks alongside hot spots in New York and London-but at half the price."

          ~ Conde Nast Traveler

"The staid Midwestern hotel bar gets a shot of stylish, youthful energy at the Infiniti Room, the ground-floor nightclub at the equally buzzy Graves 601 Art Tech hotel downtown (see the Hot List hotel review)."

          ~ Conde Nast Traveler

"Owned by Graves Hospitality, the building looks as unremarkable on the outside as it is spectacular within"

          ~ Interior Design Magazine, by Kendell Cronstrom, October 1, 2003

"A street-level elevator takes you up to the Blade Runner-esque 4th floor lobby, where you'll swear you've entered a galaxy far, far away."

          ~ Margaret Jaworski, Family Circle, January 20, 2004

"the most prestigious and important multi-million dollar new hotel in the whole entire history of the whole entire North Star State."

          ~Dara Moskowitz, City Pages

"set new local standards for gastronomic extravagance"

          ~ Jeremy Iggers, Star Tribune, 7/10/03

Chef Seth Bixby Daugherty managed to draw all eyes at my table away from the most breathtaking dining room in Minnesota with this one dish: Veal cheeks braised in red wine and set in a lentil stew thickened with foie gras. Tasting this tender, beyond tender dish was like floating along on a velvet tide.

          ~ Dara Moskozitz, City Pages, December 31, 2003

A beautiful room that's like a temple to Modernism and Wood, service that's so well carried out it's practically invisible, a truly reliable service of all three meals a day. Cosmos is the first restaurant in Minnesota to really just be a restaurant in every dimension.

          ~ Dara Moskozitz, City Pages, December 24, 2003

"And now there's a place to stay that captures the spirit of the city."

          ~ Marion Times, 7/10/03

"Something quite cosmopolitan, memorable, but not foreign to any cultures."

          ~ Mary Mark, Yabu Pushelberg, Hospitality Design, August 2003

"the first truly modern statement in the local hospitality industry..."

          ~ Adam Platt, Mpls/St. Paul Magazine, August 2003