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Rel.: (33)(3)80247941 Fax: (33)(3)80243279 Closed in February, 1st~7th August, Sundays and Mondays except National Holidays. A good address offering a modern relaxed atmosphere, easy-going homely service and reasonable food value prices. Avant-garde young style cuisine by a young chef: Beef tartare with fresh oysters, foie gras in shellfish jelly, duck breast, coffee soufflé. (Article and photography courtesy of Yoshinori Nagafusa) Tel.: (33)(3)85876565 Fax: (33)(3)85870357 Reservation advised Perfect service from the moment you appear at the entrance until the moment you board the taxi back gome! The interior will surprise people who think that the exterior of a restaurant is most important! Kind and patient service. Take your time choosing your menu and wines! Big servings so do not worry! Poached egg and caviar, on bed of mashed potatoes, cut in half at the moment it is served to you. Veal spleen and Bretagne scampi fricassée. Homemade pasta with osso-vucco. Homard millefeuille in tomato coulis. Bresse chicken fricassée with morels sauce. Homard and green asparaguses salad. Increduble cheese tray! Chocolate ice-cream dome. Assorted fruit & sherbets. Petits fours recommended! 40,000 wine bottles in the cellar! 91' Morey St Denis "La Cloche" (1,000FF) recommended. (Article & photography courtesy of Yoshinori Nagafusa) (Jean-Jacques Martineau) (Closed Sundays) Address: 14, rue de Strasbourg, '1100, Chalon sur Saône Tel.: (33)(3)85429575 A restaurant located on the Saint-Laurent isle in the middle of the Saône River almost exclusively specialised in snails. A few other creations like the 3-cheese terrine. Prices extremely reasonable. Local Côte chalonnaise wines. Address: 35, Grand-Rue, 67110, Gundershoffen Tel.: (33)(388729643 Traditional North Alsace house. While his wife Annie, all smiles and elegance warmly welcomes the guests, Francois Paul prepares a light cuisine with seriousness, generosity and precision: Cannelloni stuffed with foie gras and chanterelles, homard lobster cappucino, spiced scampi, Provence basilico rabbit back, anfler couscous with its vegetables and lobster juice, poached peaches and pistachio ice cream and small mint meringues. Address: place de la Réunion, 63100, Mulhouse Rel.: (33)(3)89458418 Closed on Sunday evenings. Thye inn across the former town hall offers 11 different kinds of choucroute and a large selection of Alsatian wines on a superb terrace. LE PETIT ZINC
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(Grand Hotel de La Reine)(Open until 22:00) 2, place Stanislas, 54000, Nancy Tel.: (33)(3)83350301 Fax: (33)(3)83328604 A XVIII th Century decorated restaurant with a verandah on the Stanislas Square. Michel Douville Has the knack to marry humble products typical of the Lorraine (endives, cabbage, céleri, beer petit-gris snails) with more sophisticated delicacies. Great wine card and less expensive than would such a celebrated restaurant would seem. Owner: Mme Rivet Address: 18, rue de la Visitation, 71600, Paray-le-Monial Tel: (33)3- 85811113 Fax (33)3-85888370 http://www.hotelbasilique.com/ E-Mail: resa@hotelbasilique.com Closed November 1st~March 20th (Answering machine reservations ok) Two restaurants inside hotel of the same name ideally situated in a old small city in the middle of Burgundy, just in front of the "Chapelle des Apparitions", the "Chevet de la Basilique", with an illuminated facade every evening.The commercial district and the pedestrian-only streets are 100 metres away. Walk a bit more and you shall find yourself in the middle of the Charolais countryside! Traditional Burgundian cuisine in relaxed atmosphere! Credi cards: M/V Address: 71960 Fuissé Tel.: (33)(3)85356068 Good village inn: andouillette, frog legs, Bresse chicken. Good wine selection. Address: 7, Place Drouet d'Erlon, Reims Tel.: (33)(3)26473273 Fax: (33)(3)26849655 Typical Brasserie/bistrot. Well located along wide alley/square. Interesting interior decor. Well-mannered staff. Tasty Flammenkueche, mussles, froglegs, choucroute (sauerkraut), onion soup, etc. Address: 135, rue de France, 57200, sarreguemines Tel.: (33)(3)87982259 Fax: (33)(3)87286263 Before taking the family business, Thierry Breininger worked at the Buerehisel (Strasbourg), the Crilon Hotel's Ambassadeurs and Savoy in Paris. The whole family is helping from the recption to the kitchen. Great service. Carte changes with the market avaibility. The menu at 170FF is a gift! Quality without a fault! Address: 15, rue nationalle, 57350, Stiring-Wendel. Tel.: (33)(3)87875278 Closed 21st August~6th september, 27th december~2nd Hanuary, Saturday lunch, Sunday dinner and Mondays. Surprising Provence atmosphere found in the North Eastern mining country. More surprising the estaurant is entirely in the hands of two sisters. First-class inventive modern cuisine: Great carpaccio, frog brandade with fresh goat cheese, veal spleen meunière with cauliflower purée. Iced vegetables gaspachio, bass with preserved artichokes. Murabelle tart (season), spiced "burnt-iced" sabayon. (Emile & Monique Jung) Address: 10, rue de l'Outre, 67000, Strasbourg Tel.: (33)(3)88321302 Fax: (33)(3)88757201 The cream of the cream. In an area where no less than rhree 3-star restaurants compete with each other, Le Crocodile achieves a real tour de force to preserve traditional cuisine without falling into stiffness. The service is simply perfect and the welcome warm. Each guest is individually welcomed as such without any ostentation and each staff knows his job. Caille au foie gras. Foie d'oie poîlé et pommes reinette au gingembre. Timballe de grenouilles et flan de cresson. Filet de sandre. Great Cheeses. Artistic desserts. Sumptuous Alsace wines cellar. Monique Jung simply the perfect landlady! (Has come to Shizuoka and is in absolute love with Japan!) Visit their site:
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