The best restaurants Rhône-Alpes

In the heart of the village of Saint-Barthélemy-de-Vals, here is an astonishing and generous address, offering a playground for children, a beautiful shaded terrace, appreciated in summer, and especially a remarkable regional menu drômois, with a salad based on abomasa and hot cheese or a duck magret to olive and quenelle, followed by a prune of guinea fowl in the mixture forest and ravioles and a dessert for choice. It is not royal perhaps but already damn good prince! The stopover can be continued with a walk on the banks of the lake of the nearby Vernets… 

On the central square, the Bistro is one of the restaurants of the multi owner Annie Village. Originally located on the ground floor only, it has an additional floor and has a large sunny outdoor terrace directly overlooking the slopes of the station. The interior has been beautifully renovated and the top room is particularly pleasant with its large windows with a view of large trees illuminated in the evening. The view is splendid! The chic bistro style of the card does not forget to place a place with Savoyard specialities. In this way, we are surrounded by nature fondue, ceps or truffles, or a tartar or tender, which is served in the board - the beautiful corner of the butcher. As for the more «gastronomic» dishes, they don't always show up at the height of the announcement and the desserts are without surprise, except the excellent lemon pie. It can be restored at any time, between two climbs and at noon with a reduced card: bogeyman, plate of Iberian ham, hearty salads and outdoor rôtisserie. In short, a Bistro chosen for its specialities, its friendliness, its decor and its privileged view!

With a beautiful name, Les Flocons offers authentic regional cuisine, which will finally enchant the taste buds. One of the specialties is the matouille, tome of the whole Bauges stoves as old (be patient, 30 min of waiting) served with charcuterie and potatoes. Of course you will find a variety of traditional, old-fashioned fondue and fish. The reception is very warm and professional.

Les Voisins, it is the charming campsite of Marjan and Henri offering several modes of accommodation, but it is also a nicely decorated dining room open to all, with 42 seats. In the kitchen, Marjan with her long experience of having been the chef in their former brasserie in Amsterdam, concocts delicious and surprising dishes, made with ingredients and regional products, according to the market and the season. She combines with talent French, local and Mediterranean cuisine, as well as flavours and tastes of other countries and continents. Do not forget to book so that she can ensure the highest quality and freshness of the products, and also offers the opportunity to concoct dishes according to your wishes and tastes. They also offer, by reservation, themed meals, a vegetarian menu, and receive groups, with festive menus or buffets, in the luxurious and chic, simple and country style with large roasting pan for grilling. On sunny days, enjoy the terrace with views of the medieval castle. You will be pampered culinary speaking in a friendly atmosphere. An address as we like, incomparable.

A restaurant as you like to discover. A good, friendly Savoyard motel with home-made dishes from local products: cheese, cold meats, fruit, vegetables, etc. Sébastien, training pastry and Beatrice, from the region, took over this establishment two years ago. A simple and good cuisine, with homemade soups, farcement and famous, rind and slices typical of the region. And as at home, the service is generous in the portions. If you add a server that likes to contact customers and feel divinely well, this restaurant is definitely a good plan in Châtel.

With a beautiful spring afternoon, on the sunny terrace, in the center of the village, you can enjoy regional specialties and gourmet desserts. High quality products and established know-how are the masters of the restaurant and tea room Le Vieux Chêne with the antiquated mountain scenery. Not to miss, the warm Tatin pie and its vanilla ice quenelle, the blueberry pie to the air cream blown and caramelized or the magnificent lemon pie. All accompanied by a delicious hot chocolate. To the map, fondue, grilled meat on stone, tartiflette, crozets gratin, but also snails, cabri… " House "to generous servings!

Friendly welcome and a sweet price for the Walk bar restaurant, Le Thôvet, taken in 2015 by Mireille and Nathalie. They are Savoyard specialities based on regional cheeses but also gluten-free dishes, a wide range of salads that vary according to season and a wide selection of pancakes and pancakes, as well as "homemade" desserts. The framework is the old wood of a warm bistro. In summer the sheltered terrace is pleasantly shaded. The prices are soft and the quality is at the meeting. Nice!

Lake barns a restaurant, a grocery store, a wine bar on the edge of the lake. On the terrace, the road is noisy, but to take advantage of the view and the sun, what you wouldn't do! Inside, the store offers various local specialities. Soups, snails, cold meats and cheeses, from Savoy wines, jams and even decorative objects. On the restoration side, Maryse is in the kitchen. In the winter it is a declination of mountain specialities, we advise you the chestnuts and its good charcuterie. …, diots, famous,...... In summer, barbecue version in a huge smoking area in Oklahoma with gogo grill and plates of homemade smoked fish. The reception is nice. A wine bar completes the offer.

Anthony Bellia, of Sicilian origin by his two parents, proposes in his Italian restaurant the pizzas he makes himself including the Provençal with Capers and beef, quite exceptional but also the eggplant lasagna, pasta, Milanese cutlets. The flagship product is the Polpettes, meat boulettes with tomato sauce and spaghetti. All dishes are made from fresh products and can be eaten on site or take away. A restaurant to discover!

At the feet of the Aqueducts aqueducts, the Inn, which took its name at the impressive Roman monument that very few Lyonnais knew, had changed owners last year. We were therefore expecting some changes, but it seems that we are not changing a formula that works. Also, in this beautiful idyllic setting, which the terrace offers us, we enjoy a refined cuisine of tradition: pike mud Nantua sauce, cake of poultry livers with crayfish and lobster bisque, magret duck magret cut into segments, small bite with vanilla chanterelles… Classics that entertain all generations.

Not to have a Air air in the head when you discover this Caffè, Ristorante Italiano. Come Prima, "as before", it is the happiness to make a trip to Italy in the heart of Grenoble. On a sunny square where you taste the "dolce vita" version Grenoble on a terrace opening onto the animation of Les Halles Sainte-Claire. Come Prima is the whole culinary tradition perpetuated by a family of restaurateurs in Sicilian origin, which highlights the good products of Italy and all the know-how of a mamma true that knows how to satisfy all appetites. In a warm atmosphere dominated by the red, a lovely welcome to present us the best specialities from the house. Beginning with the famous antipasti buffet, a treat, but also a skill beef carpaccio with its reggiano parmiggiano, delicious tomato lasagna and goat cheese, large shrimps cooked to garlic and olive oil, with pasta, risotto and pasta, which are déclinent, as ravioles stuffed with ceps or ces. sea. Other culinary delights, pizzas - to be savoured on or off - with tasty dough and quality toppings, such as this prosciutto or smoked duck magret with bacon cubes in the Campagnola. At the time of dessert, the obligé cotta, tiramisu or a coffee affogatto for the gourmands. All the colours of Italy, even on the map of beers and wines. An address like Smart loves them to come prima, come sempre (as before, as always).

The ceiling of this Chinese restaurant, built around the buffet concept, is set by ceiling mouldings and a décor. Hors d'oeuvres, vapeurs (the, shrimp bites…), soups, Vietnamese, Thai or Chinese specialities, seafood, poultry (curry chicken, painted duck…), meat (pork sauce, sweet sour beef…), the choice is wide.

It is a restaurant close to the slopes, and the quality and quantity are at the meeting. A large outdoor terrace and typical Savoyard interior. A traditional kitchen card, mountain specialities such as the golden mountain and its charcuterie, pizza to eat on site or to take without forgetting the genépi at the end of the meal. An efficient and friendly service and a warm atmosphere. So every schuss!

Somewhere between the Seven Paths and the Jonage Canal, an unexpected address arose between two industrial stores. Well, when you know the neighborhood's "potential" and the number of hungry at noon in search of quality restoration. This "ristorante" in the Italian air has invested a beautiful house to innovate in Lyon with an Italian buffet concept. And it's pretty successful. The terrace gives a Roman holiday air to our lunch and the rooms, with red and black tones, a checkerboard on the ground for the restoration part on the thumb, are worthy to appear at the competition of the Lyon Shop Design. It is fine, but is it good? Caffe Piqueras offers every day something like 24 entries, one could say antipasti & Cie, 13 hot dishes and 13 desserts, for a formula at 17 €, wines not included. So the choice is there, but the quality? She too. The flavours vary according to the seasons, but we have been able to enjoy a plateau plateau, a mini pick of aubergines, pasta with sauces, well-attached verrines and a more than correct terracotta panna. Wines transalpine in accompaniment. A genuine original address to change its habits at lunchtime.

An institution in Saint-Etienne! More than years since Louise and Michel serve and cook in a friendly and popular atmosphere, where it becomes very natural to joke and chat with the other tables. You can eat tasty fries (of course!), accompanied by grilled meat or ginger chicken, salad made up of the day's ingredients or charcuterie, all in a good simple. Other option on the map: The house couscous is among the best in Saint-Etienne. Don't hesitate to engage in conversation with managers who are short in vivants heritage and witness. A real address and a beautiful entrance door to the city.

As it is clear, this is the address of red meat lovers. On the course of Liberation, a pleasure break to the Boucherie and his emblematic cow that will entertain the children. For the small story, Boucherie is a national sign whose first address was created to… Megève. Since then, Boucherie has perpetuated a tradition of "artisan of meat" and the servers are asked to speak to us "louchebem", the familiar language of the butchers of yesteryear. In a nice décor with red notes or a pleasant summer terrace, we gladly come to enjoy the classics of the bovine gastronomy (based on limousine meat with exemplary traceability) and some local dishes. Among the specialties of the house, we start with a house terrine or a beautiful salad; We continue with a melting and tasty burger or a beef carpaccio at basil, but we stop choosing on the leather card of the meat of Boucherie: Tournedos, tab, spider, paved… and the famous beef coast. Local side, a Troyes bullnut, veal rostrons or a tartiflette. At the time of dessert, we enjoy a gourmet moment for a tasting with coffee. Quality and small prices get married in Boucherie.

Behind the term a singular strand is a small restaurant with rustic but nice decoration. Its authentic and unbeatable cuisine is the prayer of the Savoyard potato patches: The cloth. Ideally located at the bottom of Vallorcine's slopes, just on the train station of the train station, the Bougnette stop is a gourmand stop for appetites with a well-started ski day. In addition to the famous boulders, local specialties such as the Berthoud, a cheese-rich cheese of rich abundance and white wine are pleasantly tasted, with some variations depending on the season, including morilles and ceps. But also, fondue, diots, crozets, Savoyard classics, and the incarnate side Jura or Switzerland. For "allergy" to cheese - they are rare in Haute-Savoie - a Savoyard menu with omelet and salad appears on the map, which also displays its gourmet lot and snacks made home to swallow before resuming the rises: sandwiches, mumps, crepes or chicks. The staff were very helpful. 

An address that does not cheat, playing the card of sincerity on a beautiful village square in the heart of the Dombes. In Tarragon, we don't try to do "like in Dombes": we are in Dombes! A beautiful corner house with pinkish hues, a welcoming terrace from the sunny days and warm rooms. Patricia and Christophe have succeeded in giving a gourmet soul to Tarragon. The natural kindness of the welcome, smiling service, all the guests enjoy themselves. Seasonal cuisine that changes according to the market, with a menu renewed every four months to maintain excellent product quality. And since we don't cheat, everything is homemade. A la carte, a delicious homemade fresh foie gras, guinea fowl terrine, rabbit fillets and heart of poultry liver with homemade port. Real fresh frogs, but also a supreme yellow chicken with cream and morels, game perfectly prepared in season. To finish with a nice cheese platter and homemade desserts, such as this crème brûlée or ice cream nougat. Pleasant wine list to go with it. Authentic gourmet address

Located opposite Châteaucreux station, the Loco is led by Jean-Michel Romeyer, Master Restorer. A la carte, duck foie gras beggar and shredded pork shank, artichoke mousseline and Montbrison sheath, roasted monkfish grenadine, Sichuan pepper and basil cream, or beef filet steak on Roquefort cream and foie gras croustade. Fresh, delicious and well presented dishes. The desserts are also of high value: raspberry and its crispy almonds, delicacies from La Loco.... Beautiful terrace with white speckled granite floor, decorated with screens, plantations (laurel sauce, bamboo), blinds and parasols. An address not to be missed.

The least we can write is that if this restaurant is not still unanimously appreciated, it has rectified its situation since our last not very rave reviews. Setting did not change and steps from Musée d'Art Moderne, the room is modern in white and red tone to highlight fluid forms, including this staircase leading to the mezzanine. The terrace overlooking the amphitheatre, sheltered by large parasols, offers a pleasant refuge. The point of improvement is both services, more responsive and friendly at the time of our visit, and the cuisine that will never be that of Mathieu Viannay, Christophe Marguin or Frédéric Berthod, three chefs combined in the business, but a good cuisine in a brasserie way with some gourmet refinement as extra. On an well-stuffed menu, a Marmande tomato tartare served with a half ball of real di bufalo mozzarella, pesto and condiments, a whole grilled fish according to the arrival, lobster salad, risotto worthy of this name or a roast veal sweetbreads in casserole, before enjoying the famous creamy chocolate fondant. Fine wine list for an address that move on top in our selection list.