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Bastide
Behind the Melrose Place gates, change was afoot under the rustling olive trees. When the gates were finally flung open, critics foamed at the mouth, bloggers demanded the spindly chairs be burned—and one amiable chef kept quietly busy making you an extravagant meal like nothing else in town.