Destination

Italy

Edition · 2026

A country read aloud. From the cool light of the lakes to the long afternoons of the south — cities, hill towns and tables we keep returning to.

Italy is the second country to enter the edit. Where France rewards stillness, Italy rewards conversation — a country whose rooms are designed for staying late at the table.

Our first chapters will settle in Rome and the Amalfi coast, then move north to Milan and the lakes. As with France, the intent is fewer, better: a small register of houses we would send a friend to without hesitation.

From the carnet · Italy

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.
May 5Castello di Reschio · Lisciano-nicconeA thousand-year-old castle in the Umbrian hills, restored over three decades by the Bolza family — thirty-six suites in the keep, two restaurants, a vaulted bathhouse, and a thirty-seven-hundred-acre estate at the Tuscan border.

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Sister countries.

FranceA country read slowly. From the river light of Paris to the quieter harbours of the south — a deliberate collection of stays, tables and passages where time lengthens.
SpainA country whose tables hold the highest pressure in Europe and whose old towns hide them behind plain stone doors. Our Spanish chapter opens slowly, on a single street in Cáceres.
United KingdomA small register on the British Isles — country houses, walled gardens and the longer English weekend.

Italy

Sister countries.

One moment worth living, every Sunday.