Terra Nostra Garden Hotel

In the Azores, You Can Cook Your Dinner Inside a Volcano

"Set in a sprawling botanic garden, the Art Deco complex at Terra Nostra Garden Hotel is the island’s iconic hot-spring hotel where I watched chef Valter Vieira lead the gathering of ingredients for his specialty, cozido das Furnas. After the geothermal cooking, the tuxedoed maître d' escorted me to a white-clothed table and poured a flinty white wine from Pico, and a waiter arranged every sausage and leaf of cabbage on a gleaming platter before pouring the precious cooking liquid from a Japanese kettle, sending up a cloud of steam. The hotel’s restaurant serves the finished dish daily at lunch and dinner." - Hannah Walhout Hannah Walhout Hannah Walhout is a senior editor at Travel + Leisure, where she edits the Discoveries section of the print magazine and develops longer stories focusing on food, wine, and spirits. She has previously worked at Food & Wine and in the writing program at NYU Abu Dhabi. Travel + Leisure Editorial Guidelines