Green wave
1 Hotel Seattle, best Copenhagen restaurants, Martino’s, Appellation Healdsburg, Margo, Berlin real estate, MORE
ASK FOUND
First, a handful of subscriber responses to our recent PROMPT, What’s your favorite restaurant in the world?
One of the best restaurant and meal experiences I’ve ever had took place in Évora, Portugal, at this place. You walk in, and they just feed you whatever they want. Husband-and-wife chef team, every dish killer. No idea what I ate. Such warmth, and was so cheap.
The Iguana Restaurant and Tequila Bar at Casa Kimberly in Puerto Vallarta. Beautiful restaurant with incredible food and a stunning view over Puerto Vallarta in the former home of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Fabio’s, located in the Vienna city center right off of Kärntner Straße. The food is so delicately prepared, the spices become a dance on one’s palate. This is not your usual restaurant. The food is equally matched by their service.
Merito in Lima, Peru. Cosy gem hidden amongst the celebrated Central’s and Maido’s.
And to our query, In which city should FOUND launch next?
Copenhagen
Milan or Tokyo
Mexico City
CHICAGO!! please and thank you
Detroit, yo!
One fresh PROMPT for which we seek your intelligence:
Tell us about your favorite hotel in the world, one worth booking an entire trip around.
More answers or questions? Hit reply or email found@itsfound.com.
GETAWAYS • Seattle
Wall to wall
The Skinny: Previously the Pan Pacific Hotel, 1 Hotel Seattle opened last April after an 18-month renovation highlighting the hospitality brand’s nature-inspired aesthetic, from reclaimed wood and driftwood sculptures to dozens of living moss walls.
The Scene: There are always collaborations with local businesses happening, from wreath-making classes to fashion pop-ups in the lobby boutique. I browsed pre-loved designer fashion curated by Cuniform during my stay before heading to a tapas dinner at the on-site Spanish restaurant La Loba, which has a moody jungle vibe and live Spanish guitar music on Thursday and Friday nights. Mille-feuille style patatas bravas are terrific, along with pistachio tiramisu for dessert. The following morning, I grabbed a blood orange from the (complimentary) well-stocked farmstand in the lobby, and a ginger cayenne wellness shot and bone broth from Drift.
The Rooms: All 153 guest rooms (including 45 suites) are designed in shades of beige and cream with pops of green from live plants. Minibars are well-stocked with local snacks and refreshments, and every room has a filtered water tap by the sink, a yoga mat, a foam roller, and full-size Bamford bath amenities.
The Amenities: There’s no spa, but hotel guests have complimentary access to Dryp Yoga classes next door and receive 10% off floating sauna bookings with Wild Haus. My friends and I brought snacks and champagne on board, and splashed some ylang ylang essential oil on the steaming rocks of our wood-burning sauna, for maximum detox vibes. We spotted Seattle’s iconic restaurant Canlis from the sauna boat’s roof deck, and a few hours later, we were at Canlis for an exquisite dinner, dropped off in 1 Hotel’s Audi e-tron house car.
Why It’s FOUND: A seamless fit for the Pacific Northwest, bringing nature indoors with effortless elegance. –Amber Gibson
→ 1 Hotel Seattle (Seattle, WA) • 2125 Terry Ave • Rates from $469/night.
REAL ESTATE • On the Market
Three for-sale properties in Berlin.
→ Historic charm near Wittenbergplatz (Schöneberg) • 2BR/3BA, 204 m2 apartment • Ask: 2,46M € • refurbished West Berlin apartment with original wooden floorboards and wood-burning fireplace • Agent: Sandra Hübner, Sotheby’s International.
→ Light-filled attic near Tempelhofer Feld (Neukölln) • 3BR/2BA, 176 m2 apartment • Ask: 1,395M € • top-floor apartment with custom modern kitchen, roof deck, and walking distance to Tempelhofer • Agent: Raphaela Schwarz, Engel & Völkers.
→ Artist loft with two terraces (Mitte/Kreuzberg, above) • 3BR/2BA, 167 m2 apartment • Ask: 1,49M € • loft-style penthouse with exposed brick and roof terrace • Agent: Oleksandra Shrestkha, Engel & Völkers.
RESTAURANTS • London
Hats off
Just as publications were finalizing their best restaurants lists for 2025, a late contender swept the board in London. Enter Martino’s, a buzzy all-day Italian spot in Sloane Square. Two months after its November opening, it’s the most talked-about table in town.
A large, circular bar is the focal point of the huge dining room. There’s a sense of luxury and opulence, with candlelit tables, servers in white suits and bowties grinding giant peppermills tableside, and trilby-clad customers sipping martinis at the bar. But it’s also unpretentious; you’re as welcome in trainers as you are in that hat, and despite the Chelsea address, it’s reasonably priced.
The food is classic Italian with a touch of Italian-American. From the antipasti, tonno tonnato is terrific, with its generous portion of thinly sliced, seared tuna in a rich, creamy and moreish sauce, while sea bass carpaccio is fresh and mildly spicy. Among the pastas, the signature tagliatelle reveals huge chunks of braised beef short rib in a rich, meaty hug of a ragú. A main course of meatballs zuppetta is also generous, with plenty of beefy sauce to be mopped up with toasted sourdough. To finish, a light, fluffy tiramisu served in an elegant coupe glass. –Laura Price
HOTELS & RESTAURANTS • Napa Valley
Last resort
Chef and hotelier Charlie Palmer opened Appellation Healdsburg in September, a resort just north of the Napa Valley town’s downtown. Inside, he’s launched a new restaurant, Folia Bar & Kitchen, along with a rooftop bar.
With 108 rooms and suites spread across a main hotel building and multiple bungalows, Appellation is already giving the nearby Montage and Meadowood resorts a run for their money when it comes to laid-back wine country glam. Like the Hotel Healdsburg, which Palmer opened over two decades ago, the rooms are modern and unstuffy, with built-in elements, barn doors, outdoor areas, and vineyard-inspired artwork.
The dinner menu at Folia Bar & Kitchen draws on seasonal produce and hearth-grilled meats and fish, with an $85 three-course prix fixe that’s a steal for wine country. There are five starters and five entrees to choose from, as well as supplemental snacks and larger format dishes, including a roast chicken and a bone-in New York strip for two. (An à la carte menu is also available in the lounge.) A clear early hit on the fall menu was a pork schnitzel dish with gin lardo, Brussels sprouts, pickled peppers, herbs plucked from the garden outside, and a bagna cauda-style sauce of anchovy and capers. There’s also a striking starter of house-made country pâté en croute. –Jay Barmann
AROUND FOUND • Other Notable Intel & Recs
→ RESTAURANTS 2026: FOUND NY rounded out its Most Anticipated New Restaurants lists: above 14th St., below 14th St., and Brooklyn.
→ LOS ANGELES: It’s easy to miss Hotel Joaquin while cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway. The discreet, 22-room hideaway still carries the charm of its 1940s roadside motel roots. Tucked just steps from Shaw’s Cove, it’s worlds away from the gigantic resorts of Laguna Beach. There’s no TV, no kids, and the cell reception gets spotty. It’s the kind of place where mornings start with coffee and tea left outside your door in a fishnet bag, and evenings end with a movie night in the garden or at the bar. On a recent Sunday, they were playing The Parent Trap; as a Nancy Meyers fan, I felt right at home.
→ LONDON: Glasgow’s food scene has been on the up for a while, but one restaurant has accelerated the city’s appeal since opening at the end of 2024. Margo (above) showcases seasonal produce, Scottish seafood, house-made pasta and bread, and in-house butchered meat. On our visit, the star small plate was West Coast crab on toast, with layers of fresh, juicy crabmeat, crunchy apple slices, dill, and a spicy kick of green chilli pepper.
→ PARIS: Late last September, the menu at Canova in the French coastal city of Toulon still had the brightness of Provence’s summer, peaking in fall’s direction, slowly welcoming warmer flavors. Every element is cooked to perfection, fish with flawless doneness, sauces with precise balance, meats slow-cooked to tenderness. You can’t help but wonder how chef Francesco Consolini manages the feat of turning out a menu of nine dishes and two desserts from such a tiny kitchen.
ROUTINES • Getaways
Select answers to the FOUND ROUTINE query, What was your last great vacation?
→ CARLOS LOPEZ, director of food & beverage, Moxy Miami South Beach (Miami): Jamaica. I was always wary of all-inclusive resorts, but the new Sandals Dunn’s River changed my whole outlook. The Jamaican hospitality combined with a “no problem, mon” attitude guarantees endless smiles every day. The onsite restaurants and bars are all carefully curated, but all share one common trait: an ample selection of Jamaican and Caribbean rum. If you’re up for an adventure outside of the resort, take the tour to Bob Marley’s childhood home. You’ll experience the “Natural Mystic” Blue Mountains and lunch at a local jerk chicken spot.
→ ASHLEE MARGOLIS, founder, The A List (LA): Burning Man is my favorite time of year. It’s the greatest vacation of all time. I mean it’s hard work, but it’s the most freeing trip I take where I have no plans, no agenda, no schedule, and everything is completely spontaneous. Plus, I’m off my phone, detached from technology — there isn’t anything that’s more freeing than that. I also love being in Aspen in the summer. I love the casual nature of it and the healthy lifestyle. I bike and hike each morning, followed by yoga at O2, into brunch at Spring Cafe or a possible sandwich at Grateful Deli. Dinner is at Nobu or the newly opened Sant Ambroeus.
→ IONA GRAHAM, brand & marketing controller, Graham & Brown (Paris): Our favourite place is the South of France, down near Sainte-Maxime. We’ve been going since I was around five years old. It’s a place that holds special memories for me and my family and is always full of lots of great food to enjoy. The best recommendation would be Les Graniers in Saint-Tropez, perfect for a relaxed lunch on the beach with feet in the sand. Or stop off for a pizza or a vongole at Fatto-Bene in Sainte-Maxime.
GETAWAYS LINKS: The 50 most anticipated luxury hotel openings of 2026 • Creative retreats and workshops to fly around the world for this year • The challenges of luxury hotel bedroom design • In Zermatt, the divine influence of the mountain view • Cabins, but make them floating.
GETAWAYS • The Nines
Restaurants, Copenhagen
Alchemist (Refshaleøen), for an explosion of art and science
