Finestra

Long gone are the days of his first beach hut on Palombaggia beach in Porto Vecchio, where, at the age of 17, he organized his first parties. Nicolas Panzani now runs three establishments on the harbor (the Corsican Da Passano, the Italian D'amore, and Finestra, the gourmet restaurant) and a beach restaurant, Da Mare, located on the site where he started out. Being a good restaurateur means above all knowing how to cast the right people, and for Finistra he has unearthed two young Italian talents: Edoardo Menna and Maria Cugusi, chef and pastry chef under the supervision of the famous chef Italo Bossi. In a beautifully designed dining room, cut off from the hustle and bustle of the port and cleverly evoking the upturned hull of a boat (we are in a former shipyard building), they offer a thoroughly convincing Mediterranean cuisine: variations on cuttlefish, rockfish risotto, delicate double ravioli... with a real highlight being the desserts.