If i had to choose only one restaurant on the French riviera, it would probably be Tetou (Avenue des Frères Roustan, Golfe-Juan ,06220; tel. 04 93 63 71 16 ). I know i am repeating myself, but the bouillabaisse ( so as the rouille sauce that goes with it, pictured above) and the seafood there is just wonderful.
The maître d'hôtel Bruno Combriat
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La Colombe d'Or is a legendary auberge located in a charming Saint-Paul de Vence village in Provence. The hotel/restaurant is especially famous for it's impressive art collection( Artists used to pay their bills with paintings or sculptures. ) After the second world war La Colombe d'Or turned into a jet set gathering spot.
Provencal products, especially vegetables and herbs are the main focus at Alain Ducasse restaurant Le Louis XV in Monaco. Maybe the restaurant's plates are gold plated and the sumptuous interior is anything but modern, the cooking is contemporary and light.
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The recipients of Michelin stars in France have been announced. You can see the full list here (the pdf under the text).
L'Auberge de L'ill was rewarded its 3rd Michelin star in 1967 and was able to keep them to this day.Like Paul Bocuse and Troisgros family, other two French gastronomy legends, Haeberlin family managed to maintain the high level of their Alsatian auberge for decades, although the style of cooking reminds me much more the cooking of Paul Bocuse , than Michel Troigros (which i adore and consider one of the best restaurants in the world).
Have you seen "Le grand restaurant" ,the funny Louis de Funès movie about a Parisian gastronomic restaurant in the sixties? Well, i think that Bocuse and Heaberlin family cooking has remained in those times. Of course, the very warm welcome at L'Auberge de L'ill has nothing to do with Monsieur Septime character, the despotic owner of the restaurant from the movie, but food was nothing that one would expect from a modern 3 Michelin stars restaurant.
Some images from the grand (i don't know how to call it otherwise!!) breakfast at Marc Veyrat last month.
Update 24/02/2009 As Le Figaro announced today , Marc Veyrat is giving back his 3 Michelin stars.
My dinner in La Maison de Marc Veyrat last week was like a breath of fresh air - so different from what most of other 3 Michelin stars in France can offer.You just can't forget such experience - not only because its not cheap(dinner - 368 € per person, breakfast- 79 € per person), but also because everything was delicious, creative and,most of all, entertaining.
Coming from Savoie,Marc Veyrat interprets savoyard speciliaties such as deconstructed tartiflette served in a "tetra pak" box.
The K Hotel
The first thing that is striking at the three Michelin stars L'Arnsbourg is it's location. The restaurant and the K hotel (owned by the Klein family) are hidden in the Black Forest.It is a little fairy tale like- when you arrive in the early evening, the night is beggining to fall and the Black Forest becomes even blacker and more mysterious... (Thanks goodness for the GPS system as without surprise- this place cannot be found easily.)Then there is the cutting edge design K hotel which was the first thing that catched my eye in the Relais§Châteaux book one year or so ago. It is built in the way that the forest is "present" even when you open your eyes in the morning- huge windows won't let you forget that you are in the middle of nature.
No other restaurant in France is rated as controversially as La Villa du Havre . On one hand, it has only one Michelin star and that has been going on for a while already, on the other hand, Gault Millau guide (which is as reputable as the Guide Rouge, but not as present internationally) gives 18/20, a top rating. To give an idea what Gault Millau ratings mean, some other restaurants that have 18/20 in 2007 are "Le Grand Vefour ", "Le Maurice",or "Le Louis 15- Alain Ducasse"... Moreover,the only restaurant that has 20/20 is "La Maison de Marc Veyrat" and it has been a historical award as no other restaurant in France has ever got 20/20...
So the ratings of the guides do seem weird from the first sight... Especially that i have been following the cooking of Jean-Luc Tartarin since few years and there is some force that does make me to come back.... Basically, every time i go to Deauville for a weekend, i go to La Villa du Havre...
This is what i did this weekend and one more time didn't regret my choice... Located in a villa like house, the restaurant is a charming place to be. The rooms are decorated with surrealistic paintings and sculpures...
The menus change very often and even if i wouldn't dare to call it "the softer version of El Bulli", i would defititely describe Jean-Luc Tartarin's cooking very creative and sometimes even mad.
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