Experience

Born in Peru, he grew up and studied in Milan. Passionate from a young age about poetry, philosophy and the visual arts, he pursued studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera after completing a scientific baccalaureate. This artistic foundation still informs the way he approaches the bar today: as a space of composition, balance and emotion, where the gesture matters as much as the atmosphere.

 

Arriving in Nice without speaking French, he sought a first field of expression and chose the highly cosmopolitan world of cocktails. What was meant to be a transition became “a vocation”. Frank Carcamo discovered a profession that brought together everything that moves him: aesthetics, precision, human connection, the energy of service and a sense of detail.

 

He continued his career and rose through the ranks in several prestigious establishments on the French Riviera. It is within this continuity that he imagined Gustave: not as an anonymous hotel bar, but as a destination with character, both refined and contemporary. He envisions a place where every guest is welcomed in a singular way, where the cocktail is at once a pleasure, a story and a memory. A place people come to for the taste, of course, but also for the conversation, for the beauty of the gesture, and for that rare feeling of having experienced a timeless interlude.

 

By his side, head bartender Julien Lecharpentier, with whom he has been collaborating since 2018, brings sharp expertise in creation and mixology. From this complementarity emerges the identity of Gustave: a bar conceived as a complete experience, at the crossroads of savoir-faire, emotion and style.