Megève: restaurants
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Megève has lots of pricey options both on and off the mountain, including five restaurants in town with Michelin stars (two of these have been awarded the maximum three stars). But there are plenty of places serving good food at affordable prices; and there is a growing number of snack bars on the mountain selling sandwiches, soup and French fries.
In resort
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Spaggiari
A bar in the centre of Megève that serves good pizzas, to eat in or take away. Spaggiari is simply furnished and has a gangster theme with an illuminated sign of a gun pointing to the bar. As well as seven types of pizza, it serves soups, charcuterie, cheese, omelettes, salads and classic desserts such as Peach Melba.
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La Table du Trappeur
In the Chalet St Georges hotel in centre of the village, La Table du Trappeur has a cosy ambience with wooden walls and ceilings. It serves good-value traditional French food, sometimes with a twist such as lamb shank braised with oriental spices. Plus it does local specialities such as tartiflette. The mouth-watering desserts may include thin apple pastry flamed with calvados and mini-babas flavoured with limoncello, lime sorbet and with Chantilly cream. It is very popular and at peak periods has two sittings (6.30pm and 8.30pm).
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Flocons de Sel
With three Michelin stars, the Flocons de Sel obviously serves delicious food but the ambience is relaxed and not too formal. It is in the hotel of the same name in a lovely woody room with high ceilings, up the road past the Rochebrune cable and best reached by taxi. As well as the €270 nine course tasting menu there’s an à la carte menu with a good selection of fish and shellfish, such as Dace fish from Lake Geneva, as well as perfectly cooked and delicious meat dishes like filet of venison with blueberry and shallots purée and Grand Veneur sauce. It has a cheaper bistro – Flocons Village – in the centre of Megève selling simpler and more affordable dishes.
On the mountain
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Chalet le Radaz
On the blue Pré Rosset piste on the way back to Rochebrune from Côte 2000. Chalet le Radaz is housed in a lovely old restored wooden building (floor, walls, ceiling, everything is wood) with a terrace. The budget option is to treat it as a snack bar and just have a sandwich or soup from a hatch and eat on the terrace. Or they do other table service dishes such as spaghetti bolognese and omelettes at reasonable prices.
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Le Gouet
Above St Nicolas de Veroce in the Mont d’Arbois sector near the Gouet drag lift. Le Gouet (+33 4 50 93 20 97) is small rustic hut that was in the same ownership for years and has now been taken over by two long-standing employees. It serves good, simple food such as Croute de Gouet – bread soaked in white wine with cheese, ham and two eggs plus a green salad. Local diot sausages are also popular.
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Face au Mont Blanc
At the top of the Jaillet gondola has stunning views across Megève with Mont Blanc in the background. Face au Mont Blanc has a lovely wooden interior with animal heads and artefacts such as old sledges on the walls. There’s a bar area and lounge with easy chairs as well as the dining room. On a sunny day the best place to eat is on the huge terrace. Starters include gravadlax marinated with genepi and berries and celery velouté with smoked haddock. Mains may include roast lobster and slow cooked shoulder of lamb.
