My wife and I are taking a road/business trip and making over nights in Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinatti and are looking for interesting hotels to stay at. I'm sure I find somethingson the internet but thought I would ask the locals where would good neighborhood hotels and restaurant suggestions.
Thanks in advance

What area of Columbus are you going to stay in?

I'll have to think about the interesting hotels, but I can make a couple of suggestions for food.

Try the German Village area. My favorite restaurants there are Schmidts and Katzinger's Deli, but there are a ton of other good restaurant there.

Here's a link with a bunch of suggestions:
http://germanvillage.com/shopsrestaurants.php

German Village also has the Book Loft. A whole city block of books!

Here's a link to the general tourist info site for Columbus:
http://www.experiencecolumbus.com/

I'll let you know if I think of anything else.

For Columbus try the Great Southern Hotel (I believe it is now a Westin property) & right across the bridge from German Village. For Cincy, try the Netherland Plaza. There is an earlier post on here about Columbus I'll try & find for you as well.

I'm not a local but we recently stayed at The Columbus (yes, in Columbus) downtown and were really impressed. It's recently renovated and somewhat retro, but extremely well done. It's part of the Renaissance chain. We had gotten a $99 weekend special and when we checked in, we were upgraded to a 1 bedroom suite - very, very nice and definitely not your usual hotel experience.

No suggestions for interesting hotels but in Columbus be sure to check out The Short North area for folks milling about in the evenings- bars, shops, restaurants... Also, the German Village area. If you are a shopper Easton Town Center is a great outdoor walking mall with several hotels adjacent to the mall.

There are a couple of cool B & B's in German VIllage (in Cols.) if you have an interest there...