If Fabrice Idiart has some free time to go surfing or hiking in the mountains, it is to be able to center his creative inspiration, a
creativity that finds it’s way to his cooking and the tables at ILURA, the restaurant of the Hotel La Reserve in Saint Jean de Luz.
Rare for a hotel restaurant, he has the freedom to express and create. A known personality of the new wave Basque chefs, Fabrice’s passion for supporting local producers to source ingredients and learning from the growers, leads to a Basque cuisine that followsthe regions changing seasons and celebrates the ingredients themselves. Trying to imagine himself in the place of the customer, he creates to please.