Sister (well, little sister) property of famous Borgo Egnazia - hotel which put Puglia on the map and radar of luxury travel. I have complicated relations with Borgo Egnazia (don't take me wrong, it is fabulous for certain and many clients), but Masseria de Carrube was a love from first glance: unpretentious, simple, and simply…
Puglia swiftly becomes popular and gets to luxury travel map. Which is good and bad. Good that infrastructure of this picturesque land develops for the taste of luxury traveller and adopts to refine taste of jet setters promptly (well, prices included). Bad that authenticity not always preserved - so easy to slip off to be…
When in Paris, this is one of the icons: La Tour d'Argent, four-hundred-year-old household - imagine??? That was my second encounter with chef Yannick Franques. First time I met him in Southern France 13 years ago when he was at Oetker Saint Martin. That was like... oh... deja vu... I definitely met this handsome chef…