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This is the last episode, Friday August 26 of our soap opera which, this week, allowed us to go to the four corners of the world to have lunch with our feet in the water. We leave for an island in Thailand, an idyllic setting, which allows you to completely disconnect, while tasting local dishes.
It is one of those Thai islands, where the passing tourist sometimes catches himself dreaming. Leave everything behind, change your life, and settle here, facing the sea. For these two French women, it has become a reality. One was a senior finance executive. The other, in high-end real estate. In 2014, after a stay on the island of Koh Phangan, they resigned, sold their Parisian apartment, and opened the Alcôve, this restaurant, right on the water. “We don’t talk about performance anymore, we don’t talk about meetings anymore, we don’t talk about marketing anymore. We just take shorts and heat”says Karine Tripota, co-owner of the Alcôve, in Koh Phangan.
L’Alcôve has now become an institution on the island. An intimate atmosphere, and a very elaborate decoration, which they claim as an ode to femininity, with several iconographic references to Coco Chanel. “People are not customers, they are friends, guests”, says Mélanie Lamotte, co-owner of the Alcôve. Before the Covid, they served between 250 and 300 covers each evening. Now they are 150 covers on average, a mixture of regulars and tourists. In this restaurant, the five senses will stay awake, until late at night.