Giuseppe Basso, born in Vernazza (1938) , leave to single 14 years from its country in order to embark like cook and store-keeper on the ships of the shipowner Paul Scerni of Genoa. For 13 years he turns the world in wide and in along and to its return to Vernazza he decides to open a restaurant that calls “the Belforte”. The memorable inauguration e'. It was 1965 and to make from godmothers were the mythical Binoculars Kessler and the young person, beautiful Catherine Spaak with its fiancèe then Johnny Dorelli. They were gold years, in which jet the set and the world of the show they orbited around to Five Lands. But the rise of the cook entrepreneur Giuseppe does not end here sure. To the beginnings of 70 years the uncle Eliseo proposes to take the redini to it of its restaurant “Iseo” to Portovenere and, without to think a moment to us, Giuseppe chip ax. Also the personages do not lack here: Alberto Lupo, Walter Chiari, Paolo Villaggio, Gino Paoli, Adriano Celentano, count Vacca Augusta and many others. The secret of many famous customers reveals it Giuseppe: “entravano nel ristorante seriosi e ne uscivano seriosi sorridenti”. In 1997 the vulcanico cook of it thinks an other and opens one inn in the natural park of the Palmaria island. E' useless to say that also this new intuition is transformed in happening. The Inn Lorena is defined the “Pearl of the Gulf” and many national and foreign television transmissions of it have given prominence like restaurant cult and location in which soggiornare. In its pleasant rooms the most colorful design or in the villino, an ancient building restored dipped in the green, with one seen mozzafiato on the blue of the gulf. But with Giuseppe the innovationes never do not end and for the future it already has in yard an other, newest idea….