En Marge

Rating: 16
Author: Gault&Millau

31320 AUREVILLE

16/20
Remarkable Restaurant

14 PHOTOS

Chef: Frank Renimel
Cooking: French | Gastronomic | Local | Modern | Signature cuisine
Services: Access for people with disabilities | Accomodation | Children's Menu | Cooking lessons | Garden | Private Parking | Takeaway | Terrace
Style: Elegant | Romantic | With family

Budget (€)

Indicative price per person (excl. drinks)

52 to 158

Gault&Millau's review 2026

As the chef, who lives in this beautiful house on the hilltop, puts it: "It's like being in the country. Over the past twelve years, Frank Renimel has cultivated more than just a vegetable garden - he's created a veritable art of living, which he now passes on to his guests. In this large dining room with its rough stone and brick walls and high ceilings beamed like a modern barn, he diffuses the fragrance of a rustic rethink, with the crunchy green asparagus and its morel stuffed with poultry, or the signature cappuccino, foie gras and mushroom, in its 2025 version. Creativity is particularly evident with plump, perfectly cooked langoustine, artichoke and strawberry, followed by lobster with a sassy carrot-banana pairing, claws on the side, caviar bean, Buddha's hand, while his interpretation of cassoulet, each ingredient - the tarbais, the pig, the rind, the sauce - finds a new expression, once again confirming a cuisine that is both rooted in its roots and highly inventive, even daring. The wiser Gascon beef is well presented, as a fillet, tartar in a beet wrapping, or daube in a gourmet raviole. Some like the "worked cheese", before moving on to the desserts, also well thought-out and aesthetically pleasing: yoghurt and violet mousse in a sweet boiled egg, or the passion soufflé accompanied by a very good chocolate ice cream. The cellar covers all the vineyards, with some interesting costs on great estates (Grange des Pères, for example, but also DRC for lottery winners), and is well advised, including on wines by the glass, by head sommelier Benoît Fédou.