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Rialto Reality
What an evening! I survived week one of my two week sojourn to start the semester!
I wish you could have been with me...we ended the new faculty orientation with a bang - my boss took 50 people to Rialto! It's a very swanky modern Italian restaurant in the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square. I've spent weeks dealing with every detail with their private dining coordinator, and tonight it all happened just as we'd planned. Phew!
We had the entire private dining room at the rear of the restaurant, glass walls on two sides, overlooking Charles Square. Nothing like getting to eat at the most expensive restaurant in Cambridge on someone else's dime.
We started with a cocktail hour - two white wines, two red wines, a sparkling wine and actually anything else you wanted to drink (yes, folks...open bar!) There were amazing hors d'oeuvres - little caprese pizza slices, tiny lobster rolls, lemon crispelles, and chived crab on polenta, plus anti pasti plates of meats, cheeses and olives. Each one was a burst of the most incredible flavors!
We moved on to the four-course dinner:
First - Spicy greens with caciotta cheese and spiced walnuts in a quince raspberry vinaigrette
Second - Truffle risotto with prosecco and local mushrooms
Third - Slow roasted Long Island Duck (yes, an entire duck!) with braised escarole, roasted fingerlings and Sicilian olives
Forth - pineapple sorbet with blueberries and a butter florentine
The duck was transcendent - a taste I will always remember. Crispy skin, perfectly cooked meat, delicate seasoning...my mouth was soooo happy!
The florentine cookie was also a festival for the tongue, rich and simple and perfect. And the sorbet was the perfect finish.
This meal almost made up for all the work and craziness over this summer.
My boss gave me Burdick's chocolates as a thank you, and the main senior staffer I did most of the work for wrote me a thank you card that said, "If I could say it hundreds of times, it wouldn't be enough to convey the many times you've saved me and made this program fly...THANK YOU SO! You are wonderful. Your attention to detail, your focus and aplomb under pressure, and your ability to do so much so well made the planning and execution happen (I'm not sure it would have without you - seriously). I am so grateful."
Did I say I love my job?
I wish you could have been with me...we ended the new faculty orientation with a bang - my boss took 50 people to Rialto! It's a very swanky modern Italian restaurant in the Charles Hotel in Harvard Square. I've spent weeks dealing with every detail with their private dining coordinator, and tonight it all happened just as we'd planned. Phew!
We had the entire private dining room at the rear of the restaurant, glass walls on two sides, overlooking Charles Square. Nothing like getting to eat at the most expensive restaurant in Cambridge on someone else's dime.
We started with a cocktail hour - two white wines, two red wines, a sparkling wine and actually anything else you wanted to drink (yes, folks...open bar!) There were amazing hors d'oeuvres - little caprese pizza slices, tiny lobster rolls, lemon crispelles, and chived crab on polenta, plus anti pasti plates of meats, cheeses and olives. Each one was a burst of the most incredible flavors!
We moved on to the four-course dinner:
First - Spicy greens with caciotta cheese and spiced walnuts in a quince raspberry vinaigrette
Second - Truffle risotto with prosecco and local mushrooms
Third - Slow roasted Long Island Duck (yes, an entire duck!) with braised escarole, roasted fingerlings and Sicilian olives
Forth - pineapple sorbet with blueberries and a butter florentine
The duck was transcendent - a taste I will always remember. Crispy skin, perfectly cooked meat, delicate seasoning...my mouth was soooo happy!
The florentine cookie was also a festival for the tongue, rich and simple and perfect. And the sorbet was the perfect finish.
This meal almost made up for all the work and craziness over this summer.
My boss gave me Burdick's chocolates as a thank you, and the main senior staffer I did most of the work for wrote me a thank you card that said, "If I could say it hundreds of times, it wouldn't be enough to convey the many times you've saved me and made this program fly...THANK YOU SO! You are wonderful. Your attention to detail, your focus and aplomb under pressure, and your ability to do so much so well made the planning and execution happen (I'm not sure it would have without you - seriously). I am so grateful."
Did I say I love my job?
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Congratulations on not only a job INCREDIBLY well done but for getting the proper credit you deserve for it. I am SO glad they take proper care of you.
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