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The places, tables, rooms, and getaways worth knowing — in Arizona and beyond. Curated by someone who spends her days in the state's most beautiful homes.

Dining
Dining
Two Tables in Paradise Valley

LON's at the Hermosa Inn — dinner in a cowboy artist's hand-built adobe studio — and El Chorro, the 1937 watering hole with the famous sticky buns. History that learned to cook.

July 2026
Travel
Travel
Laguna Beach, the Canyon Way

Skip the blufftop crowds. The Ranch at Laguna Beach — the town's only golf course, bocce by the pool, a biodynamic farm, and cool canyon air two minutes from the sand — plus the easy flights from Phoenix.

July 2026
Travel
Travel
Santa Barbara, in Three Moves

Lunch at San Ysidro Ranch, where Camelot began — then the Queen of the Missions, and a slow drive reading the most eloquent gates in America. Montecito, decoded.

July 2026
Travel
Travel
The Grove, Not the Beach

Miami at a walking pace — the Ciprianis' Mr. C on the bay, dinner on foot under the banyans, Monty's at happy hour, and the Biltmore's preposterous history. Cooler than South Beach in every sense.

July 2026
Santa Fe, the Long Way
Travel
Santa Fe, the Long Way

From Albuquerque up to Santa Fe — Hotel Chaco's canyon-born design, a 1785 adobe dinner, the longest tram in the Americas, the great hotels, Canyon Road, and a tour of Las Campanas.

July 2025
New York, in Two Acts
Travel
New York, in Two Acts

Old-world Upper West Side at The Wallace, crystal at Baccarat, MoMA to the Polo Bar — with exact booking instructions — then downtown by river taxi to Dumbo.

July 2026
Weekend Escape: Sundance
Travel
Weekend Escape: Sundance

Robert Redford's Provo Canyon hideaway — a drink at Butch Cassidy's actual 1890s bar, the brand-new Inn under Mount Timpanogos, and mountain mornings built for slowing down.

2026

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