Apartment With Balcony in Val Cenis

This hotel restaurant in the heart of the Haute-Maurienne and Vanoise areas is the perfect place to recharge your batteries after a mountain hike. The interior design may look simple, but the food served here is a far cry from your average resort fare, as chef Victor Heiries strives to treat diners to something unexpected. His wonderfully fresh surprise menu varies according to the ingredients available on a given day: Arctic char, Aubrac Wagyu beef, Duroc pork belly or Termignon blue cheese – fantastic. Aromatic herbs and wild plants elevate the vegetable-forward dishes. There are rooms for o

At this chic restaurant perched at the top of the resort (altitude 2 400m), chef Éric Samson, assisted by his son Swann, pays tribute to the food of his three favourite areas: his native Brittany, his adopted home of Savoie and his beloved Périgord. His cleverly devised multi-course single set menu draws on all three terroirs with finesse: the famous "diamant noir" ("black diamond"), ie black winter truffle, takes pride of place, with organic scrambled eggs; matured abalone and Breton buttermilk emulsion; hay-cooked Roscoff onions, summer Beaufort cheese royale… and textures of poached pear wi