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Pepe Vieira Restaurant & Hotel
Poio, Spain · Independent · Core Luxury
The chef's father ceded the land for the project, since planted with five thousand new plants and one hundred fifty trees to buffer each of the fourteen cabins from its neighbors. His restaurant, on the same site, opened in 2001 and earned its second Michelin star in late 2022, two years before the hotel itself existed.
- 14 rooms
- Opened 2023
About Pepe Vieira Restaurant & Hotel
- Chef Xosé Torres Cannas calls his Galician project la última cociña do mundo, treating each tasting menu as anthropology that reconnects diners with Rías Baixas ingredients through deliberately bold, experimental recipes.
- The adults-only hotel inverts the usual model: fourteen freestanding white galpones scattered across a wooded estate replace a conventional building, each cube offering floor-to-ceiling views of forest and the Ría de Pontevedra.
- Pepe Vieira earned two Michelin Keys on the program's inaugural year, one of only two Galician hotels recognized and among seventeen across Spain for destination-strength stays beyond standard luxury.
- Founding Grupo Nove member Xosé Torres Cannas pairs his two-star, Green Star restaurant with biodynamic gardens, onsite composting, and a wine cellar of six hundred references mapped to Camino de Santiago routes across Europe.
- Relais and Châteaux lists the property on Camiño da Serpe in Poio, where guests begin dinners with garden aperitifs before moving through linked spaces to a dining room framed by picture windows onto Atlantic light.
History
Pepe Vieira Restaurant & Hotel sits on a wooded hillside above the village of Raxó, in the parish of Poio overlooking the Ría de Pontevedra in Galicia, Spain. The restaurant, helmed by chef Xosé Torres Cannas, opened in 2001 and earned its second Michelin star in late 2022. On land his father had ceded to him, the chef completed the project in spring 2023 with the inauguration of a landscape hotel that joined the Relais & Châteaux network.
Conceived as a 'defragmented' hotel where corridors are replaced by paths through the woods, the accommodation comprises fourteen freestanding cabins — galpones, named for the traditional Galician farm sheds — set into the slope of a 12,500-square-metre estate. Each has a fully glazed front and interior garden, framing the surrounding eucalyptus and oak woodland and the ría beyond, with privacy ensured by the planting of some five thousand plants and 150 trees.
Restaurants and bars
- A Serpe — Restaurant
- La Ultramar — Restaurant
- Nordés — Restaurant · Chef Xoán Cannas (named in timeline entry 'Nace Nordés de la mano de Xoán Cannas')
Awards
- MICHELIN Two Keys (2026)
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