Winds of change

So busy were the weeks after Tarik Marco and Sandrine Maltret opened their second French eatery in Willunga, that the couple neglected to tend to the colour-filled pot-plants gracing Le Mistral’s window sills. ‘It was dreadful,’ says Tarik. ‘I kept thinking I must look after those plants but we were so busy and they just wilted and died. It was one of those things that I could just never get around to.’ Then one morning Tarik arrived at the historic white-walled cottage to find the lifeless plants had been removed and replaced with new healthy ones. ‘There was no note or anything,’ says Tarik. ‘Someone just recognised we were busy and did this for us; this is what