Le Sonney

Rating: 14
Author: Gault&Millau

63000 CLERMONT-FERRAND

14/20
Chef's Restaurant

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7 PHOTOS

Chef: Caroline Vallance
Cooking: French | Gastronomic
Services: Privatization

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Gault&Millau's review 2026

They're not even fifty years old between them, yet they're demonstrating impressive maturity and technique. Benjamin Faure and Caroline Vallance have a long view and a certain taste for coherence, which they express around a remarkably complete fourteen-course menu, fourteen courses like the fourteen lines of a sonnet; Sonney like the name of that great-grandmother cook who inspired vocations. The two chefs apply themselves to a truly poetic sequence, with fine compositions in which the Auvergne is never far away, a fine herb tartlet, a saffron-flavored apple with foie gras, an elegant maki of deconstructed trout, a fine work around poultry, a pleasant dessert around pear amandine. Well-informed regional cellar.