Suite Spot: The Highland Dallas.

When the Dallas Hilton Inn opened in 1967, it quickly became synonymous with the high life. Home to a swanky private club and a happening Trader Vic's, the high-rise hotel attracted a glittery clientele, but by the late '80s had fallen into disfavor and disrepair. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi bought it in 1993, with hopes of turning it into a center for a different kind of high life - transcendental meditation - but that too stayed earthbound. After a few more twists of fate, the renamed Highland Dallas has returned to the Hilton fold as the inaugural member of its Curio Collection, with a new celebrity chef and a renewed, cheerfully eccentric sense of style. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]