La Bertonnerie en Champagne

This elegant inn, a post house in a former life, sports a terrace overlooking the River Vesle. The setting is bucolic, the food classical: sea bass meunière, baby artichokes and confit tomatoes, and a Grand Marnier soufflé. The impressive wine cellar is very competitively priced!

Here in the heart of Reims, there is definitely something interesting afoot. This small restaurant has a delightfully pared-back and contemporary interior with bay windows looking out onto a charming Japanese garden. The setting is in perfect harmony with the cuisine of Japanese chef Kazuyuki Tanaka. He crafts elegant and creative dishes that are rife with different flavours and influences, using aromatic herbs, vegetables, plants, condiments etc. Each one is a surprise, not only in terms of the exceptional quality of the ingredients (such as the langoustine or lobster) but also by their techn

The little sister of the Château les Crayères, housed in an outbuilding in the park, is a smart, very contemporary and elegant brasserie with its own veranda and terrace just opposite the herb garden. Flavoursome seasonal cooking.

The village of Chigny-les-Roses in the heart of the Montagne de Reims is the site of this restaurant in a former classroom, which is, indeed, entirely hemmed in by vineyards. Chef Benjamin Gilles can be seen in the kitchen through a window in the dining room. Now his own boss, he signs modern dishes overflowing in fresh flavours and enhanced by a zest of creativity. Vegetables and fruit feature prominently in his culinary score through a variety of preparations (raw, cooked, pickled).