La Mirande
4 Place de l'Amirande, 84000 Avignon, France
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Practical information
- Location
- Avignon
- Chef
- Michele Donvito
- Cooking
- Gastronomic | Modern
- Services
- Access for people with disabilities, Accommodation, Children's Menu, Cooking lessons, Garden, Pets allowed, Private Parking, Valet parking
- Style
- Elegant
Gault&Millau's review 2026
15/20
Remarkable Restaurant
Following Florent Pietravalle, who earned four toques, a new era has dawned at La Mirande. The restaurant and its legendary reputation remain in Avignon, embodying—more than ever—a rare form of regional luxury. Housed in a sublime 18th-century Provençal villa, the 5-star hotel continues to shine, and today features the creative dishes of Italian chef Michele Donvito on its menu. Donvito bridges the gap across the Alps, bringing the two countries together around a balanced, gourmet meal, paying homage to the art of theater in its structure. Served in three or five “acts,” the courses create a dialogue among the dishes in a trilogy, centered on a single ingredient or a well-executed concept. One such creation features carrots in a superb herring and ginger sauce, a burnt carrot sauce with a very subtly smoky flavor, followed by carrot purée—less rounded and more seasoned with kumquat and sage—and finally a salad of pickled-style carrots, sumac, and passion fruit, dominated by bitterness. The second course brings us back to the coast with a remarkably cooked raspberry-glazed red mullet—though it was a bit cold upon arrival—rockfish soup with crab, zucchini, and basil, and finally plankton wrapped in a combawa leaf like a ravioli. The dessert, centered on figs and featuring a horseradish and fennel leaf composition, is well executed. There is also a beautiful wine guide of over a hundred pages, with numerous recommendations from all over France.
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Michele Donvito Chef -
Giorgia Braghi Pastry Chef -
Lucas Grange Chef de service
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Li-Lou Dufils Head sommelier
