Lisbon · Taipei · soon elsewhere
Cicerone
A hand-kept guide to the places worth knowing, maintained by people, reached by asking.
Featured guide · No. 01
Lisbon, a field guide
Fourteen places, kept by Inês Coutinho and three curators who live there.
Enter the guide →Featured guide · No. 02
Taipei, a field guide
Nine rooms and lanes, kept by Mei Chao, for the city that runs late and quiet.
Enter the guide →What this is
Cicerone is not a feed and not a review site. It is a short, deliberate list of cafés, bars, hotels and rooms, each one vouched for by a named person who has actually been. You read it here, or you ask your assistant for “somewhere quiet to work in Lisbon” and it answers from the list. No crowds, no ratings, no algorithm.
Membership is by invitation.
Members bring members. Curators bring members. Everyone else waits a while. That is rather the point.