06Field Notes · Where we send people to eat
The Table
Restaurants, estate kitchens, and the private dinners we’ve staged on beaches and in deserts. Chosen for what’s on the plate, not what’s on the wall.
Our clients tend to want the same thing: excellent ingredients, cooked simply, without a production. That is far harder to find than tasting menus. Every restaurant on this list has a preference sheet from us on file before anyone sits down — allergies, dislikes, how the beef is done, which coffee with which milk. It is the least visible part of the work and the part people notice most.
La BucacciaCortona, Italy
TuscanyTraditionalSunset first
Traditional Tuscan cooking in a thirteenth-century palace, rustic and intimate. Go up to Cortona at six, walk the town while the light goes, then eat outside. Bring a sweater.
Asador CarmenPalma, Mallorca
MallorcaGrillSimple
Galician wood-fire grill. Premium beef, simply prepared, no sauces getting in the way. The default answer when someone wants a great dinner and nothing complicated.
Forn de San JoanPalma, Mallorca
MallorcaOld townFinal night
Contemporary Mediterranean in the old town, and the right last-night restaurant — good enough to matter, relaxed enough that nobody’s performing.
BarbàrPalma, Mallorca
MallorcaLocalArrival night
Modern Mallorquin built on island ingredients and clean preparations. The one to book on arrival night when appetites are uneven and nobody wants a four-hour dinner.
Villa d’Este, VerandaCernobbio, Italy
Lake ComoFormalBoat access
Reached by a short boat ride across the lake, which is most of the point. Dinner jacket required for men — worth knowing before you pack.
Ristorante BilacusBellagio, Italy
Lake ComoPost-rideCasual
Where a morning ride that finishes in Bellagio should end. Unfussy, reliably good, and positioned so you can take a taxi boat home afterwards with a drink on deck.
Casadonna RealeAbruzzo, Italy
AbruzzoDestinationMichelin
Niko Romito’s minimalist retreat in the mountains — the same kitchen behind the Bulgari Roma restaurant, in a far quieter setting. A destination in its own right.
The OwlNew Preston, Connecticut
NortheastNeighbourhoodWalk-in
Twenty minutes from Litchfield and the reason a weekend here doesn’t feel like a compromise. No reservation needed, which in this part of the world is a luxury.
Private dinners, stagedVarious
BespokeAnywhereApproved in advance
A beach in Mallorca with torches, candlelight and a guitarist. A Sonoran desert at sunset with a chef and a fire. A suite deck over Lake Como. The menu is built and approved weeks before anyone flies.
04Begin
Tell us who’s travelling
and what a good day looks like.
That is genuinely the whole brief. We come back with a shape for the trip — or for the year — within a few days.