![]() ![]() ![]() The Boston Photography Tour includes a two-hour walking tour of historic and impressive visual sites with a local pro photographer to sharpen picture taking skills and return with memories. Given that many chefs believe the world’s best oysters come from Duxbury Bay, just outside the city, the “Discover Oyster Country” offering is a really unique one and includes a day trip to the most famous of them all, Island Creek Oysters with an outing on its skiff, harvesting and then enjoying oysters and wine. The art-theme tour combines the hotel’s own collection and a partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art. Christian Horan/Four Seasonsįor leisure guests, the hotel offers loaner bikes to explore the Back Bay easily and following a recent trend among top luxury city hotels (pioneered in Paris by the Four Seasons George V years ago), the property is also rolling out seasonal local experiences with a sense of place, many of them guided, beginning with four current summer offerings. outpost of globally popular Japanese eatery Zuma, a big. The hotel originally had another dining outlet, One + One, but it was shuttered during the pandemic and will reopen shortly as the everyday breakfast venue. With lots of high-end Japanese design and beautiful wood, it is unlike anything else in Boston. It is definitely not your father’s Four Seasons’ restaurant, complete with a built in DJ booth and includes regular tables, a large sushi bar surrounding an island-style open kitchen, a robata grill and an ornate cocktail bar. In perhaps the biggest departure for Four Seasons, which usually goes with either its own concepts or famed celebrity chefs like Jean-Georges Vongerichten, this one has opted to outsource, and boasts the fourth U.S., location of buzzy and wildly popular Japanese concept Zuma (in Las Vegas, New York and Miami, along with Rome, London, Istanbul and other global cities), which is very impressive, and worth visiting even if you stay someplace else. The trolley at Trifecta, where signature cocktails are designed around famed Boston artworks. Trifecta also serves traditional afternoon tea on weekends, a nice touch. The theme continues into Trifecta, the hotel’s trendy lobby cocktail lounge, where a very ornate menu devotes a page each to a large slate of signature cocktails, each based on a work of art on display in the city’s museums and galleries, served alongside plates of cheese and charcuterie showcasing artisan New England producers. Floor to ceiling windows overlook the city and food and beverage service is available poolside, adding to the escapist urban oasis feel of the entire hotel.īecause the hotel is trying to position its neighborhood location as Boston’s Art District, there is a heavy art theme, including a multi-million-dollar collection in public areas, selected by the late David Bowie’s private curator. The impressive mural behind the front desk, “On A Hot Summer Day,” depicts the unusual story of Boston’s infamous Great Molasses Flood of 1919 and is a frequent source of guest inquiries. The entire 7 th floor is devoted to wellness with the spa, treatment rooms, salon, fitness center with all top shelf equipment, men’s and women’s locker-rooms with steam and a 64-foot “smart” lap pool with underwater music and automated maintenance.
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