La Pyramide

38200 VIENNE

18/20
Prestige Restaurant

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11 PHOTOS

Chef David Castagnet

Cooking French | Gastronomic | specialty

Price Indicative price per person (excl. drinks)

97€ à 230€

Gault&Millau's review

18/20

Prestige Restaurant We often mention, with attention and kindness, these "chefs chez eux", who support a house and dozens of employees, and who don't have a group from the Emirates to bail them out and pay for the caviar if need be. As a corollary, they are the best defenders of our heritage, and the pride and appeal of the world's leading tourist destination. So, once again, our hats are off to Patrick Henriroux, thirty-five years at the service of one of the jewels of French gastronomy, who delights all epicureans with a truly great menu that makes you salivate, with marvellous dishes that belong to him and that he offers us, some with an assumed luxury (you can also do well with lobster), others simply delicious in their precision and generosity: the new version of crab (Dungeness and king), this year with celery, which goes so well with a glass of sake, the superb haddock in turmeric cannelloni with oyster and potato, the one-sided pike-perch on a pike-perch cookie and brocolettis, the gourmet frogs and enticing mushrooms and sot-l'y-laisse. On each plate, a beautiful sauce, a juice, refinement, a lot of love, that each member of the dining room, held with dexterity and ease by Michael Bouvier, distills with flame and commitment. We'll save a slice for the animal, the "pigeon du Berger" (that's the name of the breeder) in a hay crust with an excellent carrot tart, or the farmhouse pork in five variations with artichoke, as for Anthony and Taira's very good desserts, divided between seasonal fruits and chocolate (delicious apricot in a santoline crust, creamy marjoram chocolate hazelnut kirsch...). An unbeatable Rhone cellar (the chef also has a passion for the beautiful and the great), maintained with the same erudition by Hervé Baligand and his brilliant assistants.