Silent substitutions
Somebody swaps a variety for one that looks similar and the chef finds out at service. We ring before we substitute, every time, even at five in the morning, and we would rather deliver eleven items than twelve wrong ones.
Antibes, with depots in Palma and Olbia Β· seven days a week in season
Not a substitution, not eleven of the twelve, not two crates left in the sun at the passerelle. Provisioning is a logistics problem wearing an apron, and the part that goes wrong is almost never the shopping.
What we do
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How we work
Somebody swaps a variety for one that looks similar and the chef finds out at service. We ring before we substitute, every time, even at five in the morning, and we would rather deliver eleven items than twelve wrong ones.
Most cold chains break at the passerelle, where a crate sits in the sun waiting for a deckhand. We hand over into the galley, to a person, and the log says who.
Market receipts attached, our fee stated as a line. A provisioner's margin buried in the price of a melon is how a galley budget doubles between seasons with nothing to point at.
Bottles move between the boat, the bonded store and the villa, and by spring nobody knows what is where. We carry the count through the winter, which costs us nothing and saves real money.
βGuests moved the charter forward by a day at nine at night. They had the whole fresh list rebought and aboard by eight the next morning, in Porto Cervo, in August, and rang me twice about substitutions rather than guessing. Nobody else has ever done that.β
Where we are
14 Avenue du 11 Novembre
06600 Antibes, France
Antibes Β· 8 min from Port Vauban
About this page
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