Рецепт Lure + Till Takes Root in Downtown Palo Alto

First of the season Alaskan halibut at Palo Alto’s Lure + Till.

What was once a senior care facility in downtown Palo Alto has morphed into a splashy new boutique hotel and restaurant.

The eight-story Epiphany Hotel, a Joie de Vivre property, opened at the end of March after a year of demolition that took the structure down to the studs, followed by nearly two years of construction.

The six-story mosaic of El Palo Alto, the 1,000-year-old coastal redwood for which the city is named, was kept on the outside of the building. Moreover, throughout the structure there are nods to both that tree and to the city’s prominent place in Silicon Valley history. For instance, binary code is used as lighted artwork in the lobby.…