“And from that time on I bathed in the Poem / Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk / Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam /A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down...” Jean-Pierre Jacob loves poetry and has named his restaurant after the most famous poem by Rimbaud: Le Bateau Ivre (“The Drunken Boat”). Like the foresighted poet himself, this chef plays around with colours and images with audacity, turning each dish into a sensorial experience. The splendid view of Lake Bourget (France’s largest natural lake) could even awaken the poet in you…