When the king of Morocco calls, you answer.
In truth, the ruler of the North African nation didn’t actually dial up chef Massimiliano “Max” Alajmo, whose Le Calandre in Rubano, Italy, has been on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list for 13 consecutive years now. But his people did. And after such wooing, the 45-year-old chef—who was the youngest in history to earn three Michelin stars, in 2002—finally decided to hop a flight south and dip his spoons into some fleur d’oranger to open Sesamo inside the ruler’s Royal Mansour hotel last month….