Luxury Indian Ocean No1 Édition 2014 | Page 113

Luxury products and services enjoy on the spot. There is plenty of choice amongst the main attractions, such as Alain in his kitchen, allowing no one else to take charge. Then there are his lunch-time improvisations, perhaps capuccino de langouste, chantilly au boucané réunionnais or tuile de pavot au sel de Hawaï. To round everything off there is Veronique’s hearty laughter, the proof, if it were needed, that this menu is signed by the “joie de vivre” of our hosts, shared with guests who rapidly become aficionados! When you hear their account of their love affair with Mauritius and the way they have married their culinary art to the Mauritian lifestyle, you feel like writing a novel! But how would you sum up in a few words the generosity and passion, the curiosity and inventiveness, the openheartedness and the gastronomic delights that Alain and Veronique Guineaudeau lavish on you at Whatever, their elegant restaurant/wine bar at the entrance to Tamarin? As a foretaste, we