Marmo Houston has a new high-profile dining concept joining the ranks: Italian chophouse Marmo in River Oaks. The menu features hand-rolled pastas, veal chop Milanese and seafood like oysters on the half shell. Interior designer Patrick Sutton has created an elegant and modern atmosphere for guests, incorporating ... More

Everyone is talking about vacationing in Portugal these days. It’s comparatively inexpensive, they say. The people are nice. The food is great. It’s relatively easy, once you buy property, to get the coveted Golden Visa. They’ll soon be talking a lot more about the W Algarve in the ... More

Julia LeClair has been coming to the Vineyard for as long as she can remember. Spending summers up-island in Squibnocket has been a family getaway from the hustle and bustle of New York City, and the entrepreneur is grateful to get away. “Whenever I arrive, I feel like I ... More

Waldorf Astoria Chicago The Waldorf Astoria Chicago has reemerged from a top-down renovation, led by Chicago-based hospitality design and architecture firm KTGY Simeone Deary Design Group, who first designed the interiors in 2009. With a refreshed lobby, lounge, dining spaces and guest rooms, the reimagined Chicago mainstay ... More

Since it was founded in 2014, the Evok Hotel Collection has slowly taken over Paris with four different five-star boutique hotels, each with its own surprising identity. As the company’s first, the Nolinski is certainly its most classic, right in the center ... More

El Secreto Omakase El Secreto Omakase, a one-of-a-kind private speakeasy-style omakase experience crafted by James Beard Award-winning chef Paul Qui, has opened at the Faena. El Secreto Omakase is a six-seat bar with two seatings per night, and with a tasting menu of Tokyo-style sushi and ... More

Where to Eat The Omakase Room at Sushi-san is a new 10-seat omakase experience where master sushi chef Kaze Chan will showcase his inventive Japanese cuisine through an 18-course menu that will include influences from his roots in Vietnam, China and Japan. Products will be impeccably sourced ... More

Gravity Haus spares no details in its quest to be known as Breckenridge’s most modern offering—the anti-ski lodge ski lodge. Sixty guest rooms eschew the traditional flannel and taxidermy in favor of something closer to industrial lumberjack chic, with concrete floors, exposed pipes, repurposed cargo container ... More

My husband and I had hiked Stowe’s Mount Mansfield at least a half-dozen times before we decided, last spring, to hire a guide to take us up during a long weekend’s stay at The Lodge at Spruce Peak. It wasn’t that we needed to know how, ... More