A weekly letter. One moment worth living — held up to the light each Sunday. Whether a hotel, a table, or a quiet afternoon.
La Lettre
Hotel Pepe Vieira
Fourteen woodland galpones above the Ría de Pontevedra, behind a two-Michelin-star kitchen written from the Atlantic edge — a Galician landscape hotel from chef Xosé T. Cannas.
October 19Torre del Marqués
A 1702 manor of the Marqueses de Santa Coloma, restored as a five-star hotel in the Matarraña — eighteen rooms in pale Aragonese stone, the Atalaya del Tastavins kitchen, four outdoor gastronomic corners across the estate, and a long Aragonese pause at the edge of the Beceite mountains.
October 12Cap Rocat
A nineteenth-century coastal fortress on the south side of the Bay of Palma, restored as a thirty-room hotel — battlements, sentry rooms cut into the cliff, two restaurants and a private cove.
October 5Monaci delle Terre Nere
A Relais & Châteaux wine retreat on the eastern slopes of Mount Etna — sixty-two acres of vineyard, citrus and lava-stone terraces shaped by Augustinian monks four centuries ago, restored by hand since 2007 by Guido Coffa and his family.
Between letters, the shorter notes — a verdict, a detail, a quiet caveat — added to the register week by week.
Le Carnet
- May 7Quattro Passi · NeranoA three-Michelin-star Mellino-family table on the Sorrento peninsula at Nerano — opened by Antonio and Rita as a pizzeria in 1983, awarded its first star in 2000, the second in 2011 and the third in November 2023, when Fabrizio Mellino, then thirty-two, became the southernmost three-star chef in Italy.
- May 6Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler · BrunicoA three-Michelin-star table set in a 19th-century manor on the grounds of the historic Moessmer woolen mill in Brunico, South Tyrol — Norbert Niederkofler's land-only "Cook the Mountain" kitchen, opened in May 2024 with thirty seats and a Green Star carried over from St. Hubertus.
- May 6Antica Corona Reale · CervereA Piedmontese inn on Via Fossano in Cervere, kept by the Vivalda family since 1815 and held to two Michelin stars by Gian Piero Vivalda — six generations of cooking, a vaulted brick cantina, an Orto Reale at the back, and the porro di Cervere on the door.
- May 6La Madia · LicataA two-Michelin-star Sicilian table on the south coast at Licata, kept by Pino and Loredana Cuttaia since 2000 — a kitchen built on memory, where a piece of cod smoked over pinecones and an emptied cuttlefish shell stand for a whole island's storytelling.
- May 6Uliassi · SenigalliaA three-Michelin-star Adriatic table on the beach at Senigallia, kept by the Uliassi siblings since 1990 — Mauro at the pass, Catia in the dining room, and a kitchen that has spent thirty-six years turning the cuisine of the Marche coast through its own laboratory.
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