La Table de Pavie - Hôtel de Pavie

33330 SAINT-ÉMILION

17.5/20
Prestige Restaurant

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8 PHOTOS

Chef Sébastien Faramond

Cooking Gastronomic

Services Accomodation | Disabled access | Private parking lot | Valet parking

Price Indicative price per person (excl. drinks)

160€ à 285€

Gault&Millau's review

17.5/20

Prestige Restaurant Pavie is quite simply a great and remarkable machine, every cog of which has been thought out and activated with the utmost care. The Perse family, major winegrowers, who chose Yannick Alléno to build a gastronomy, were not mistaken. The 2015 Chef of the Year, as he knows so well how to do, has assembled the right generals, including Benoît Gélin, always remarkable for supervising the dining room, and Sébastien Faramond for leading the brigade. And they turn out remarkably well, in this seigniorial setting where no detail fails, with a very Allenian cuisine executed with brio and finesse, the right sauces, juices and broths, deft compositions, such as the turbot caviar and green beans after a remarkable vegetable plate worthy of the finest "gargouillous", or the large langoustine with an excellent civet sauce (but why add caviar to make it even richer?). The high point of this highly controlled sequence is the "Air pigeon", cooked in a natural skin bladder inflated like a baudruche, silky-smooth flesh, beautifully staged with a first tasting ortolan-style, filet girolles with a lovely jus, walnut and hazelnut purée. This cuisine, at once brilliant and highly codified by the master's specifications, also knows how to escape, notably with the stunning desserts of pastry chef Sébastien Nabaile, a dazzling pre-dessert (raviole mucilage prune vanille de Tahiti and prune armagnac) and a two-course strawberry dessert, one with the famous celery extraction so dear to "chef Alléno". Numerous "grande maison" attentions to delight the international clientele, a great Bordeaux cellar and grands crus from all over, with the house vineyard rightfully represented by an impressive vertical.

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