Chef Ana Roš hurries in, out of breath, nursing a stubborn cough she is struggling to shake. It’s two days before Christmas, she has yet to do a scrap of gift shopping, and she is flat out bedding down her new restaurant, Jaz by Ana Roš, hidden away in a side-street courtyard of the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana.
Complicating matters, Jaz is a good two hours’ drive from her celebrated restaurant Hiša Franko, just outside the alpine town of Kobarid, near the Italian border.