Local restaurateur Darren Cole & business partner Rob Ekstrom, knew immediately when discovering the venue at the Hotel Rialto that the owners of the hotel have a deep appreciation for doing things first class and with style. The Palms is a casual premium dining experience that offers gourmet burgers, sharing plates, seafood, fish, steaks, plant based-vegan items and is fast becoming famous for the tableside caesar salad. Cole & Ekstrom forged a relationship with Rio, a French-Canadian artist from Montreal, known as a bit of a phenom. Rio's large paintings available for sale through RIO’s agent, Avant-Garde Art, are installed throughout the dining room, helping take it from, as Cole described it, "an old classic dining room into a venue you would enthusiastically seek while visiting Las vegas or LA. When you go out, you are on vacation"