Pluviôse

Rating: 12
Author: Gault&Millau

64500 SAINT-JEAN-DE-LUZ

12/20
Gourmet Restaurant

2 PHOTOS

Chef: Luke Dolphin
Cooking: French | Modern
Style: With friends

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Gault&Millau's review 2025

Luke Dolphin expresses his talent in what is certainly the smallest restaurant in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. His workspace is just as small, yet the plates are far from cramped. The products are necessarily fresh and local, worked with precision, but also with that decisive touch of whimsy of an uninhibited cook who makes everything himself (bread, wine vinegar, elderberry juice...). Even if the space downstairs is cramped, watching him work, cutting up his fish, cooking, seasoning and plating, all the while explaining and detailing, is a true performance in the Anglo-Saxon sense of the word. A first toque for so much quality, on raw red tuna, black radish, grouper, pumpkin confit and homemade purée, homemade red wine vinegar and parsley cream, yoghurt sorbet, honey and walnut siphon. Short cellar with unusual references.