Lost horizon
Best Miami hotels, Terrou-Bi, $10M+ Boston real estate, Stone & Soil, D’une Île, Torno Subito, Tarántula, MORE
GETAWAYS • Dakar
Dakar bleu
Dakar has quietly become one of West Africa’s most magnetic creative cities. The region’s musicians, fashion designers, filmmakers, and visual artists move fluidly between Paris, Abidjan, Lagos, and New York, but Dakar remains the gravitational center. The energy is collaborative, local-first, and deeply social. That matters when choosing where to stay.
For years, Dakar’s hotels were either purely functional, built for diplomats and trade delegations, or oddly detached from the city’s rhythms. Terrou-Bi is the rare exception. Not because it tries to market itself as creative or cool, but because it has grown alongside the city rather than parachuting in from elsewhere.
The property began in 1986 as a modest seafront restaurant on the Corniche Ouest, opened by Lebanese immigrant Kalil Rahal and named Terrou Bi (a fisherman’s phrase for land glimpsed on the horizon). Over time, it expanded organically, and what emerged was not a destination resort, but a piece of civic infrastructure.
Today, Terrou-Bi has roughly 160 rooms overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, with a private beach, marina access, and several restaurants. It’s now run by Rahal’s sons, Kamil and Samir, making it a second-generation family business. The Mediterranean-influenced architecture features arched walkways, pale stone, broad terraces facing the sea. Recent renovations have modernized the interiors without altering the core idea: generous public spaces, clear sightlines, and an atmosphere that encourages lingering.
And the service is warm. Nearly all staff are Senegalese, many long-tenured, and the tone reflects teranga, hospitality as social obligation rather than scripted performance. There’s an ease that’s hard to replicate once properties are standardized or rebranded.
Crucially, Terrou-Bi also feels connected to the city’s creative life. Its hi-fi bar, Le Diamono, functions as a low-key meeting point for musicians, designers, and visiting collaborators. Grain de Sel overlooks the marina, where boats head out for offshore fishing trips. The mood is local, not transient.
For visitors drawn to Dakar’s creative scene, that distinction matters. Terrou-Bi isn’t the city’s flashiest hotel. It’s the one that understands why Dakar is on your itinerary in the first place. –Colin Nagy
→ Terrou-Bi (Dakar, Senegal) • Boulevard Martin Luther King • Rooms from $525/night.
GETAWAYS LINKS: Why one of the best European villa operators refuses to scale • New boutique hotel The Newman opened last weekend in London • In search of Chartreuse, I went to Chartreuse • Rotterdam’s harbour revival continues with new photography museum • The perfect solo afternoon in Paris.
REAL ESTATE • Boston, MA
Mass appeal
The fastest growing ultra-luxury market in the US? Boston, with 20 residential sales over $10M in 2025, almost 3x the 2024 total. The news, released in Compass’s glossy year-end report (see the rest of the top 10 emerging markets below), had us reconsidering Boston as a future FOUND market and wondering what a $10M+ Boston property looks like in 2026. Here, three answers, all listed this year:
→ 55-57 Hancock St (Beacon Hill) • 5BR/5.3BA, 7777 SF house • Ask: $12.9M • restored 1870 3-exposure corner home with 65 windows, sweeping top-to-bottom staircase, and 3 roof decks • Days on market: 11 • Annual tax: NA • Agent: Glenn Forger, Olde Forge Realty.
→ 163 Marlborough St #2 (Back Bay, above) • 4BR/3.1BA, 4856 SF condo • Ask: $12.99M • Residence 2 at landmarked Cushing-Endicott House, also w/ 3-sided exposure, plus ‘museum-quality period detailing’ • Days on market: 31 • Annual tax: NA • Agent: Tracy Campion, Campion & Company.
→ 3 Commonwealth Ave #1 (Back Bay) • 3BR/4.1BA, 3950 SF condo • Ask: $14.49M (reduced from $15.0M) • first block of sunny-side Comm Ave, once home to governor Oliver Ames and the French Consulate w/ suitably formal entertaining rooms • Days on market: 25 (and earlier) • Annual tax: $100,016 • Agent: Tracy Campion, Campion & Company.
The full list of the top year-over-year US growth markets with 10+ transactions at $10M+:
Boston, MA • 20 sales (186% YoY)
Marin County, CA • 17 (183%)
Greenwich, CT • 38 (124%)
Jackson Hole, WY • 33 (120%)
Cape Cod, MA • 100 (14%)
Central Florida • 17 (89%)
Greater Los Angeles, CA • 292 (54%)
Greater Seattle • 26 (53%)
Brooklyn, NY • 12 (50%)
San Francisco, CA • 24 (50%)
BARS • New York
Winter den
While New York has no shortage of Japanese cocktail bars, only a few truly adhere to the bartending style’s core principles of restraint, precision, and purity of flavor. Two weeks ago, the city gained Stone & Soil, a transportive drinking den in the former O Ya space (inside NoMad’s Park South Hotel). Led by an alum of Tokyo’s Bar Trench, Hirotomo Akutsu, and partner Rio Azmee, the warm wood-bedecked bar serves clean, ingredient-driven drinks that range from updated classics to matcha- and pandan-dosed originals.
The house piña colada, Rum It Up, looks nothing like the original. It’s a split between the classic island drink and a sherry cobbler, with a clarified blend of coconut milk and cream sweetened by caramel-y Japanese kokuto sugar, brightened with pineapple and lime. It’s ultra-floral, subtly nutty, and one of the best drinks I’ve had in the last year. –Kat Odell
GETAWAYS • France
Septime overnight
In the heart of the Perche Natural Park in Southern Normandy, D’une Île is a 17th-century hamlet reimagined by Bertrand Grébaut and Théophile Pourriat, the duo behind Septime, Clamato, and La Cave in Paris. In 2018, they took over from a Dutch couple who first put Rémalard on the map with this charming bed and breakfast, transforming D’une Île into a countryside escape.
The estate comprises several stone buildings scattered across eight hectares of meadows and woods. Each of the 10 rooms features white linens, tomettes, exposed beams, and bouquets of wildflowers sourced from nearby brocantes. There’s no wifi and barely any cell signal. –Victoire Loup
AROUND FOUND • Other Notable Intel & Recs
→ MIAMI: Famed chef Massimo Bottura’s restaurant Torno Subito moved into the ground floor of The Moore in the Design District at the end of last year. The original downtown location opened in 2024, but never felt like the right fit for this upscale restaurant. Now chef de cuisine Bernardo Paladini is back at the helm, in a room more befitting his ambition (and Bottura’s reputation).
→ NY: At LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B, the doors swing open next Wednesday at the new Capital One Landing. With tapas by Jose Andrés and roaming tableside cocktail carts, the new restaurant has already led one observer to dub it “America’s best airport restaurant.” (ATL’s One Flew South would like a word.) Regardless, the new 12,500-square-foot space looks gorgeous.
→ PARIS: The room at Tarántula (above) feels familiar for the 11th. Dim lights. A low hum of conversation. Music at exactly the right volume. That relaxed, slightly groovy atmosphere Paris does so well. And then the food arrives — which is when it becomes clear this isn’t just another good neighborhood spot.
ROUTINES • Restaurants
Select answers to the FOUND Routine query, Any restaurant plans today, tonight, this weekend?
→ SIMON THISSE, CEO & AD, La Serviette Paris (Paris): If I had to choose just one: Cibus, a tiny Italian trattoria in one of Paris’s most beautiful neighborhoods, Palais-Royal. Cibus is 10 tables, max. No fixed menu, no fixed prices either. But the food is incredible, and the decor is as outdated as it is authentic.
→ ALEC BANKS, head of brand creative, Thuma (SF): The weekend routine usually consists of me and the family going to Madrona Bakery in Mill Valley in the morning for tea and pastries, as well as a loaf of sourdough. My wife and I have been battling it out in the kitchen lately, so cooking and eating at home have been a priority. But when we’re being lazy, we love to get Chinese food at R&G Lounge and a glass of wine along with some tapas at Verjus.
→ WEI CHEN, chef/owner, Omawei (Miami): We typically finish at the restaurant around 1a, so it’s tough to go anywhere that late. A good compromise is an ice-cold martini with Grey Goose, in-and-out vermouth and a twist at home. I will, however, probably go to Fiorito at some point this weekend as that is one of my favorite local spots in Miami.
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GETAWAYS • The Nines
Hotels, Miami
The Hotel at The Moore (Design District, above), high-design ultra-boutique hotel residential-style rooms crowning private club
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