La Grolle - Piatti

La Maison des Bois-Marc Veyrat

➤ au Col de la Croix-Fry, 74230 Manigod, France

Piatti • Sushi • Kebab • Mexicain • Asiatique

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"My wife and I visited La Maison des Bois for lunch during a skiing trip to La Clusaz, our expectations were very high but the experience exceeded our expectations!We had the 10 course lunch menu which come at EUR 295 pp with wine pairings, Yes its quite steep but in our opinion worth every EUR (and you can probably skip dinner like we did after this 4½ hour fabulous lunch!) All courses tasteful and very different in style, I would name the trout caviar with an iced cream of herbes as the most outstanding together with "a walk in the woods" commented by Marc Veyrat with our eyes closed ...! Be careful to save some appetite for your own selection of mostly local homemade savoir cheeses from the extensive cheese table and outstanding deserts! Wine parings matched the food well, both whites and the red very good locally grown wines, we liked especially the red 2006 vintage, that reminded me of Rhone - spec. the Grenache grape. The wine list gives you all the possibilities you could wish for in selecting great French wines for an extraordinaire meal including DRC Romanée- Conti, Ch. Petrus and ... Make sure to peek through the glass in the floor when having appetizers on the ground floor ... ... This is truly an amazing restaurant like no one else we have visited, with tasteful innovative food, a nice view to the slopes at Manigod and an overall overwhelming experience, orchestrated by Marc Veyrat and his team."

La Pointe Percee

➤ 79 Place Grenette, 74450, Le Grand-Bornand, France

Piatti • Sushi • Kebab • Pizza • Fruits De Mer

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"Copyy meal and fresh product. Burger and excellent child fish according to my children. We have feasted with our black bread burger and homemade potatoes as well as reblochonade. The dessert thousand excellent leaves. Smiling and reactive staff. You don't know where to eat stop you without hesitating if you pass that way. But think about reserved because in high season it is fast complete. Service: Dine in"

Aux Aravis

➤ Place De L'eglise, 74450, Le Grand-Bornand, France

Piatti • Sushi • Kebab • Asiatique • Végétarien

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"Found this little place having walked away from one of those dreadful restaurants, where you arrive and the place is empty, and the snotty receptionist asks 'do you have a reservation? ' Instant put off in this day and age. So we walked. I treated a friend to supper, as she is going through a tough time, and it was the perfect choice. One tip, don 't be seduced by the first photo with the fire. We actually didn 't dress as warmly as we might have because we thought a fire in a small restaurant would be too hot. There isn 't one. But it is still lovely. Just dress with layers. The food menu is not large but it is really interesting and I have to say the food was fresh and a mixture of healthy, modern and delicious. The wine menu is also very good with something for everyone. The service was brilliant and the chap was so lovely and friendly he even told me my broken french was really good; Bless him. Left him a big tip. So to start, I had ceviche of three fish salmon, trout and (I should remember but don 't ; but it was exquisite see the photo. My friend had fresh home made butternut squash soup which was delicious as I helped her finish it off. For mains Sue had Tartiflette al la anciene (without cream and meat and had a small plank of ham as an accompaniement. I opted for a salad with chicken livers which wsa delicious. We shared a chef special for pud Coque aux Fruits which was like a think chocolate cup filled with exotic fruit and lime and it was really scrummy. Will def go back. Would probably share a starter as well as pud as they are a good size."

Le Happy Chalet

➤ Col De Merdassier, Manigod, France

Piatti • Sushi • Français • Asiatique • Fruits De Mer

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"Wonderful! we married and privatized the place on the proposal of christian and alexandra. We trusted them for everything and everything happened wonderful! it was good, original and local at the same time, super well managed (all guests are unanimous.) thanks to the whole team for your kindness and professionalism. a very fast, we will return regularly because the dishes of the day and desserts are topissimes also photo credit @twoforyou"

Chez Mado

➤ Les Frasses Jacquier, 74450, Le Grand-Bornand, France

Piatti • Kebab • Mexicain • Français • Asiatique

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"In the summer, nothing but more pleasant than the altitude restaurants with most often a magnificent view and of course a terrace, here adorning a traditional savoyard chalet of the most blooming dates from 1788. On leaving the Grand-Bornand, a road on the right that climbs a few kilometers and thus arrives face to this superb building. Reservation indispensable because of course the number of places is limited and it would be a shame not to be able to stop there. Chalet in old wood, full of flowers, some antique objects and there, a fountain and this terrace with tables along a fence and view over the valley. A smiling welcome then an effective service once installed at one of the tables. You should know that when booking by phone, it will be possible to book one of the menus that includes either a tartiflette or diots. Here of course it will be a family savoyard meal prepared around the products of the region, so the Aravis. Of course, the famous farmer reblochon that is a raw milk cheese, handmade, on the farm and twice a day after milking, used for tartiflette and croutes. Milk comes from the only herd of exploitation, mainly from the Abundance breed. Then the diots that are small rustic sausages made in Savoy. They consist of chopped pork and scented with nutmeg and garlic and owe their origin to the word drawn from the dialect savoyard diot which means sausage, but which can also pronounce djo. Otherwise a card with some plates like the plate of the hiker with smoked ham, rosette, farmer reblochon, Savoie tomme and green salad. Or even the studded croute which is a slice of big mountain bread with smoked ham, gratined with farmy reblochon and also accompanied by green salad. Decorated asiettes with small flowers. There will also be some dishes of the day such as polenta and diots. For dessert, well on the blueberry pies with a homemade pie dough made with fresh mountain butter butter butter butter, as well as red fruit or cream and day dessert. A superb address to spend an excellent time in the sun in an enchanting setting."