Word: rialto
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...years, business travelers in Eastern Europe have griped about the lack of first-class accommodation in the region. Now travelers to Poland can finally stop complaining and check into the Hotel Rialto, Warsaw's first boutique luxury hotel. Housed in a 100-year-old building on quiet, tree-lined Wilcza Street, the Rialto's 44 rooms are done up in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s; owner Iza Smolokowska spent two years traveling the world to pick the 300 pieces of original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics...
Since emerging from communist rule more than a decade ago, Poland has become a draw for history-hungry tourists. Its capital, Warsaw, saw the debut last month of its first boutique hotel, the Rialto, situated in a prewar neighborhood just a few hundred yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There...
...auction of photographs and Julia paraphernalia followed, in which bidding for a whisk reportedly purloined from Child’s own kitchen hovered at $300. When a 10-person dinner cooked by chefs from Rialto and Oleanna was tacked onto the offer, the closing bid came...
Jody Adams, chef of the Rialto restaurant in Harvard Square, said Child had been her mentor for the past 20 years. “She has a sense of integrity, of love, of sharing,” Adams told the guests. “When Julia walks into a restaurant, the world stops. It has to do with food, but it also has to do with...
...faces from the A.R.T., including Resident Dramaturg Gideon Lester and company members Karen MacDonald and Will LeBow, who were performing in the benefit. Volunteers from PEN New England, largely young writers, were eager to press wine into the hands of those who came early for food and social hour. Rialto Restaurant of the Charles Hotel provided dessert fare, and the brownies, delicious confections which dissolved in the mouth like so much nutty, brown sugary goo, must have given the older members of the audience a sugar-induced rush of energy as they filed into the Loeb Mainstage...