LA COLOMBE d’OR

LA COLOMBE d’OR – 06570 Saint-Paul-de-Vence

We were recommended this restaurant by an artist friend.  It is the place for artists in the area and also for the “beautiful people”. The indoor areas are full of the most fantastic painting of famous artist and many of the now living can be seen here. Now, everybody was sitting in the beautiful garden which was absolutely full. 

The service is perfect – they even park the car for you. The food is good, but not as good as it should be for the prize. You visit this restaurant of other reasons – the environment, the beauty of the place and maybe for the chance to get a glimpse of someone rich and famous. Maybe we saw some but we would not recognize them. We however saw some interesting characters – famous or not.

WEB: http://www.la-colombe-dor.com/indexEN.html

LATEST VISIT: 2013
NUMBER OF VISITS: 1

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LA TREILLE MUSCATE

LA TREILLE MUSCATE – Place de l’Eglise, 04360 Mustiers-Ste-Marie

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We were recommended this restaurant of the owner at our hotel. The location was great with the water-fall as a background. We were sitting outside and were taken care of what we thought was the owner. She had very firm opinions about thing so we felt that we had better following her advice, which was not entirely good.

The food was all right, but not great for the prize. As we always drink local wine when possible, we asked the owner to recommend something on half liter bottle. She said a wine for 30 euros was very good. I hope so I said – for that prize. You asked me what was our best wine and I answer you was the answer. It might be true in five years, but the 2011 wine we got was too young and not at all pleasant to drink. I was about to complaint but my wife said I better not.

WEB: http://www.la-treille-muscate.com/

LATEST VISIT: 2013
NUMBER OF VISITS: 1

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GRAND CAFE

GRAND CAFE - Les Allées de la Liberté, 06400 Cannes

We just had a salad at this place, but what a salad. It is difficult to know were to go along the Croisette in Canne so we just dropped into a place that looked good. The service was not great, but the salad was. It is amazing how many ways you can arrange the vegetables on a place to make a salad. This was generous, beautiful and tasty. I had a tomato mozzarella salad and my wife had a Waldorf salad.

As too many times in Provence, we however got a bill that they pretended belonged to another table. Of some reason they are always bigger than ours.

WEB: http://www.le-grand-cafe-cannes.fr/plan
LATEST VISIT: 2013
NUMBER OF VISITS: 1

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LE RELAIS

LE RELAIS - 04360, Moustiers-Sainte-Marie

Most restaurants in Moustiers Saint Marie are quite expensive. We usually like to have a light but well-made lunch and put the money on the dinner when we are on vacation. 

After some time we however found the restaurant Le Relais that looked nice. The prizes were reasonable and they had a selection of smaller dishes. My wife had grilled egg plant and myself, I had Carpaccio on beef. Both were very tasty and well prepared. Maybe my Carpaccio was a little small so I had to take a dessert - a crème caramel that was very good.

WEB: http://www.restaurantcotecour.fr/restaurant_en/le_chef.php

LATEST VISIT: 2013
NUMBER OF VISITS: 1

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LA POTINIERE DU PALAIS

LA POTINIERE DU PALAIS - 13, Square Mérimée, 06400 Cannes

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So far we had used Guide Michelin to find good restaurants. This time we liked to find something ourselves. The only criterion was that my wife liked to eat deep fried Squash flowers. We found the little restaurant La Potiniere du Palais  just a little off Boulevard la Croissette.

We were not disappointed. The squash-flowers were crispy and delicious. The main course was lamb-chops that were taken off the bone. They were perfect. I have always claimed that French people cannot make mashed potatoes – at least not as good as mine, but I have to change that opinion. For the third day in a row we had really tasty mashed potatoes made with olive oil. Here they had added some pieces of black olives into it – very tasty.

They had a good selection of wine on half liter bottles. The service was friendly and professional and the prize was right for such good food. But, on the other hand, if you are located just across the street from the Festival Palace you cannot serve anything but the best.

WEB: http://www.lapotiniere.fr/ 
LATEST VISIT: 2013
NUMBER OF VISITS: 1

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