The collaboration with Laphroaig brought together two worlds shaped by elemental forces. Fire, smoke, patience, and landscape are central to both Francis’ cooking and the whisky-making traditions of Islay. Through shared time, meals, and conversations around fire, the dialogue eventually took form as a limited whisky developed in close collaboration with Laphroaig and released under Francis’ name. More than a product, it stands as a meeting of philosophies—rooted in instinct, restraint, and deep respect for craft and place.

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Through CookUnity, Francis’s cooking reaches the table beyond his restaurants, bringing his flavors and philosophy into everyday life. The menu features dishes inspired by his way of cooking—fire-driven, seasonal, and grounded in simple, expressive ingredients—prepared by CookUnity’s chefs and delivered fresh to your door. Each meal reflects his belief that good food should feel generous and alive, whether shared at a long table or enjoyed at home. This collaboration offers a new way to experience his cuisine: familiar in spirit, accessible in form, and rooted in the pleasure of eating well.

Francis’ collaboration with Best Made Co. grew from a shared respect for tools, materials, and the rituals that surround making things by hand. Rooted in the outdoors, the project explored how objects—knives, axes, cookware—gain meaning through use, fire, and time. The result was a series of pieces developed in collaboration, designed not as collectibles but as working tools meant to be worn, marked, and lived with. Like Francis’ cooking, the focus was on honesty, function, and the quiet beauty that comes from use rather than perfection.

Disobedience was created with Kaiken as an expression of instinct over convention. Rooted in Mendoza, the project challenged traditional expectations around wine-making, embracing freedom, risk, and contradiction as guiding principles. Developed in close collaboration, the wine reflects Francis’ approach to cooking and life: trusting intuition, allowing imperfection, and letting place speak more loudly than rules. Disobedience exists not to conform, but to question – an invitation to taste something shaped by conviction rather than formula.

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At Carmen, a boutique in Pueblo Garzón, another kind of making quietly took shape—this time with cloth and needle rather than fire and flesh. Drawn to the materiality of denim and the poetry of handwork, Francis began sewing and personalizing jeans by hand, incorporating vintage fabrics and patchwork into each piece. These garments carry the same values he brings to the table: time, touch, imperfection, and respect for the life of things. The result is not fashion in the usual sense, but a small, tactile expression of craft and presence.

As a Krug Ambassador, Francis entered into a dialogue with one of Champagne’s most storied houses, grounded in shared values of patience, precision, and respect for time. The role was not about promotion, but about exchange—bringing together Krug’s deep craftsmanship with Francis’ instinctive, fire-led approach to cooking. Through shared meals, events, and conversations, the collaboration explored how discipline and freedom can coexist at the table. It was a meeting of worlds where elegance and rawness were not opposites, but complements.

Francis extended his relationship with fire beyond restaurants and into the domestic kitchen through a series of ovens produced in collaboration with local partners. These were not conceived as sleek appliances, but as working tools—built for real heat, patience, and the physical act of cooking. Carrying his name, the ovens reflected the same values that shaped his cooking at the time: respect for materials, direct contact with fire, and a belief that tools shape the way we cook and live.

Francis explored cookware as an extension of cooking itself, collaborating on a series of bronze pots designed for slow, elemental heat. Heavy, tactile, and built to last, these vessels echoed older traditions—where cooking was shaped as much by the weight of a pot as by the fire beneath it. The bronze carried heat patiently, encouraging time, attention, and restraint.