Cascade effect
Dar Rhizlane, Rome real estate, Max & Helen's, Arros QD, Sons and Daughters, Turn Back the Clock Shop, MORE
GETAWAYS • Morocco
Marrakesh melodies
In Marrakesh, Morocco, luxury hotels offer two extremes: the super luxe Royal Mansour, or an Americanized 4.5-star hotel that’s trying too hard. The better alternative is the Dar Rhizlane, where cats roam freely and rose petals drift into the pool from the cascading flowering trees.
With only 50 suites, each designed by Ahmed Sadki and his wife Catherine, the converted bourgeois villa reflects the style of a humbler palace. Instead of room numbers, the villas bear the names of the perfumes of the Orient — Musk, Sandalwood, and Jasmine.
The lush outdoor restaurant serves a classic version of the 13-salad appetizer and goat tagine. The wines and beers — even the bottled waters — are all Moroccan. The room rates, food, and beverage prices are all reasonable.
The music at night isn’t a contrived Marrakesh show, but performers from the Berber region, who sing the classic Moroccan heartbreak melodies about lost loves, the woes of Moroccan immigrants, and grief.
I was so chill during my week at Dar Rhizlane, I read two novels and wrote a handful of posts in different cozy spots around the grounds or while sitting at the edge of the mysterious pool. –Brad Inman
→ Dar Rhizlane (Marrakesh, Morocco) • Av du Président Kennedy • king room rates from €360.
REAL ESTATE • On the Market
Three for-sale properties in Rome, Italy.
→ Penthouse with terrace (Rome, IT) • 2BR/2BA, 1292 sqft apartment • Ask: 2.0M € • open plan living room, terrace with direct sightline to St. Peter’s dome • Agent: Margherita Di Stefano, Barnes.
→ Second floor apartment (Rome, IT, above) • 4BR/4BA, 3574 sqft apartment • Ask: 2.9M € • coffered ceilings, double living room, and sizable terrace with views to Roman landmarks • Agent: Eleonora Inguaggiato, Christie’s.
→ Single floor apartment (Rome, IT) • 4BR/5BA, 3230 sqft apartment • Ask: 3.7M € • overlooking Palatine Hill, renovated centruy-old building with terrace • Agent: Engel & Völkers.
RESTAURANTS • Los Angeles
Feed me
Named in honor of his parents, Max & Helen’s is the first culinary venture from Somebody Feed Phil host Phil Rosenthal, created in partnership with Mozza chef Nancy Silverton. Pitched as a diner sitting in the heart of Larchmont Village is very much a family affair: Rosenthal’s daughter leads the front of house, her husband is chef de cuisine. Current quoted wait times stretch two to five hours.
The food is comforting, familiar, and made with top-tier ingredients. All-day breakfast standouts include Max’s Fluffy Eggs and a towering stack of pancakes. Butter is abundant: every hot sandwich is griddled to golden, crunchy perfection, including an idealized grilled cheese from your childhood. The matzoh ball soup may be Instagram-famous by now, but I ordered an extra tomato soup to take home. –Anna Lane
RESTAURANTS • London
Up in flames
Spanish chef Quique Dacosta is best known for his eponymous tasting menu spot in Denia, on the Costa Blanca. But London has the next best thing: Arros QD, his swanky, multi-space restaurant serving wood-fired Valencian paella, grilled meats and fish. As a bonus, last month saw a new opening: Fuego Bar, a dark, sexy cocktail bar set inside Arros QD.
The restaurant’s specialty is rice, including a classic Valencian paella of chicken, rabbit, beans and rosemary, with artichokes for a non-traditional but welcome touch. It’s excellent, but mushroom rice with truffle cream is even better, with meaty King oyster and winter chanterelles poking out of the thin layer of rice, just below which is its caramelised ‘socarrat’ bottom. Txangurro rice is the one to impress guests, with its crab shell full of brown and white crabmeat and kimchi foam for a Korean twist. –Laura Price
AROUND FOUND • Other Notable Intel & Recs
→ SAN FRANCISCO: Fifteen years, one major chef turnover, and multiple awards later, Sons & Daughters recently left its longtime digs on Nob Hill, reopening in a well-appointed, barely lived-in Mission District space. The move has given guests a little more room to spread out, and has given chef Harrison Cheney a reason to expand his impressive, hyper-seasonal menu.
→ MIAMI: At Turn Back the Clock Shop, 22-year-old Sebastian Rodriguez has built a shrine to the bygone days of ‘80s glamour. He opened the shop when he was just 18, using the money he earned from modeling. Inside, a relic-filled haven of oversized power suits, sequined ball gowns, and carefully selected consigned treasures from the Golden Girls of Miami await their next life.
→ NEW YORK: Just steps from the Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn Granary & Mill (above) is a beautiful, high-ceilinged space that smells of fresh bread. There’s a pastry case packed with seasonally rotating treats, a fridge full of local dairy products, an espresso machine cranking out drinks, and a wall lined with flour blends and grains for sale. The mission of husband-and-wife owners Patrick Shaw-Kitch (formerly head baker at Blue Hill Stone Barns) and Laura Huss is clear: showcase and foster an appreciation for grains.
ROUTINES • Restaurants
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→ SARAH CITRON, co-founder & CEO, Bricoleur Vineyards (SF): I’m taking my daughter to see A Christmas Story, and we’re grabbing dinner beforehand at local Italian spot LoCoco’s Cucina Rustica. The rest of the weekend, I’ll be working our Holiday Market, which keeps me pretty busy, but Saturday night I’m doing a girls’ night out with my mom, grandma, aunt, and my daughter at The Madrona in Healdsburg for a pre-holiday celebration.
→ VITTORIO CALABRESE, cultural strategist and arts management consultant (NY): Lunch today at Sailor in Fort Greene. It’s one of my favorite places in the neighborhood, quiet with beautiful light during the day and a very cozy atmosphere. The food is thoughtful and simple in the best way, and there’s a sense of care in everything they do. Later this week, I’m going to Evelina in Fort Greene with my friend Ylinka Barotto for what I call the ‘Italian catch-up.’ It feels like family. It’s a real neighborhood spot.
→ CLÉMENCE GOMMY, founder, Gomi (Paris): Today, I’m having lunch at Rigmarole, followed by drinks at Piccolo, the new Italian bar opened by my friends Hubert and Gianmarco.
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