Rialto

January Newsletter

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Dear Friends,

Hurray!  No Mayan doomsday!  We have a New Year!


Wonderful things happened at Rialto in 2012. Two members of our staff were married, we welcomed 5 new members to our management team, we hosted an audience with his holiness, the Dalai Lama, we cooked in New York and Boston to celebrate Partners in Health's 25th anniversary, and Rialto was honored to be the site for Share Our Strength's annual No Kid Hungry dinner in Boston--letting us cook with old pals Gordon Hamersley, Andy Husbands, Jeremy Sewell and Joanne Chang.  And of course, YOU were there, the most interesting group of people ever to grace a restaurant dining room.  


With a new year, a clean slate and some fresh faces we're excited about the 2013 changes you'll see at Rialto: a beautiful facelift in our bar; winter travels on our dining room menu to Piedmont and Val D'Aosta (think big red wines, game, truffles and mountain cheeses).  We're introducing a new 4-course vegetarian tasting menu that includes a gluten-free pasta.  You can find it below paired with kale in the pantry section.   
 
A note on New Year's resolutions.  
 
Last Saturday, Ken, Roxanne and I were en route home from the Big Apple in the snow.  A sign for the Blue Colony Diner caught our attention on 84E in Connecticut and we pulled off at Exit 10 for a late lunch.  We made it off the ramp and into the diner parking lot before the giant flag suspended at half mast from a crane across the road tipped me to where we'd landed.    
 
We were in Newtown, about 500 yards up the road from the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

It seemed wrong not to stay for lunch, but I can understand why others might think otherwise.  Messages of condolence scribbled on the back of diner placemats covered the foyer windows; inside, ordinary Christmas lights twinkled above the booths, except the ribbons on the lights were black, not red.  We ordered and ate, almost normally.  At the end of our meal the woman behind the cash register told Ken the town just wanted to be left alone, to be given a chance to heal.  We didn't stop at the school.  Enough people have done that already.  I have one New Year's resolution: Every time some inconsequential obstacle drops down in front of me, I'm going to try to remember to take a breath and hold the people of Newtown in my heart before I say another word.
 
May all of us find peace in 2013.  
XOX, 

 

 

 

 

 

Events at Rialto 

Cooking Classes

w/ JODY ADAMS DETAILS HERE

JANUARY 20: Comfort Cooking for Company *date changed

FEBRUARY 10: Cooking for the Ones You Love with Taza  

MARCH 10: Mastering the Whole Veal Shank

 

SUPER HUNGER BRUNCH Details Here 

JANUARY 27: 11am - 1pm

Join us in the fight to end hunger; all proceeds go to the Greater Boston Food Bank.

$1 OYSTER MONDAYS Details Here 

Every Monday in the Bar & Lounge until the last oyster is shucked.    

 

Island Creek oyster foundation friendraiser 

FEBRUARY 4: Join Rialto and ICOF as we raise awareness of aquaculture.   

Additional details coming soon!  


Belly Up to the Rialto Bar for Burger Night 

Each Sunday the chefs highlight a special burger with rockin' toppings and hand cut fries for $10.   

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NEW COCKTAIL OFFERINGS!

Throughout January our beverage director Young
Won will be introducing a new concoction to our cocktail list each week. This week we kick of 2013, and what we're calling "cocktail month" with a new take on the traditional whiskey & soda. Feast your eyes on the Lord Grantham (pictured right) made with Whistle Pig's 10 year Rye and a splash of earl grey soda, served over house-made earl grey-Meyer lemon ice cubes, so the infusion gets better as the ice melts.

 

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Gluten Free pasta with Spicy Kale & Pecorino    

With the New Year comes the inevitable resolutions, and after filling up on hearty fare while celebrating the holidays with family & friends this past month we're ready to get back to healthy eats.

While some are saying that kale is sooo 2012. I disagree. We were serving kale long before it became a trend and just because some food writers want to put the kibosh on it, we don't. We hope you will enjoy this easy to make recipe for homemade Gluten Free Pasta with Spicy Kale & Pecorino
 

Want to see what Ken & I are cooking up at home?   

Check out our blog The Garum Factory. Great food, real life. 

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