Courchevel: restaurants
On the mountain
Budget
Bouc Blanc (00 33 4 79 08 80 2) is the cheapest decent restaurant on the mountain, offering friendly and efficient service on a big terrace and two wood-clad dining rooms with a rustic feel. Tasty, reliable food with excellent lamb shank, cheap pichets and affordable house wine.
Bel Air has a lovely tiered terrace with great views of the slopes and a cosy, wooden interior serving salads, grilled meat and pasta dishes, the service is excellent, friendly and efficient. Repeat customers are likely to be offered freebies such as aperitifs, digestifs or hors d’oevres.
Mid-range
Verdons has a bar area and upstairs dining room – try to get a table in the hidden-away back room if the weather’s bad. If the weather’s good, you’ll want to be out on the terrace, which develops into quite an après venue late afternoon, with live music and dancing. Dishes include excellent oriental spring rolls.
Pilatus, next to the altiport above Courchevel (1850), has lots of plane-related artefacts and serves traditional Savoyard cuisine. Several linked rooms give a cosy atmosphere, plus a big terrace. It's much cheaper than the flash Cap Horn restaurant next door, but service can get overstretched.
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Expensive
Soucoupe has a roaring log fire and cosy bar area and serves excellent if pricey food. Local hero and former Freeride World Champion Manu Gaidet lunched here most days after morning training in the Courchevel couloirs.
In resort
Budget
Petit Savoyard in Moriond (1650) (00 33 4 79 08 27 44) has friendly service and the owner has a great sense of sarcasm, so gets on well with Brits. It serves wholesome Savoyard fare and pizzas cooked on a huge open wood fire.
Chabotté in Courchevel (1850) is sister restaurant to next-door Chabichou, which has two Michelin stars, however, the “Bistronomique” Chabotté is much cheaper, offering great food at very reasonable prices.
Mid-range
Down in Le Praz (1300), Azimut is a small, unpretentious restaurant with plain contemporary furnishings. Run by chef-owner François Moureaux, it has a well-deserved Michelin star.
La Table de Mon Grand-Père is part of Hotel Peupliers in Le Praz (1300). Featuring a smart, rustic-style dining room, it has great food, excellent and friendly service and an extensive wine list to recommend it. It offers tasty choices including cassolette of veal sweetbreads and simpler stuff like homemade burgers.
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Expensive
Chabichou has two Michelin stars and is the place to come if you want a real gastronomic treat with money is no object. Exquisite food is prepared by a team led by Michel Rochedy and Stéphane Buron.
