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69 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 69 of them.
The Loire43
The valley run, based on Tours: the city first, then caves and domaines along the river through Vouvray, Amboise and Montlouis one way and Chinon, Bourgueil and Saumur the other.
Tours · 17
- Bistrot des Belles Caves
- Casse-Cailloux
- Chez Gaster
- Guinguette de Tours
- La Dentelle
- La Maison Clément
- Le Comptoir de Mamie Bigoude Tours Centre
- Le Saint Honoré
- Les Belles Caves Tours, Les Halles
- Les BerThoM Tours
- Les Halles de Tours
- Makeda
- O&A
- Pâtisserie Nicolas Léger Tours
- Publick House
- QG Restaurant Artisanal
- Ted’s hot dog
Rochecorbon · 2
Amboise · 1
Benais · 1
Chambray-lès-Tours · 1
Cléré-sur-Layon · 1
Coteaux-sur-Loire · 1
Cravant-les-Côteaux · 1
Le Cellier · 1
Monthou-sur-Cher · 1
Montrichard Val de Cher · 1
Monts · 1
Noizay · 1
Panzoult · 1
Pouillé · 1
Rivarennes · 1
Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil · 1
Savennières · 1
Varrains · 1
Vouvray · 1
Sancerre11
The wine hill on the upper river: Sancerre itself, then the growers' villages around it at Bué, Verdigny, Sury-en-Vaux and Crézancy.
Sancerre · 5
Crézancy-en-Sancerre · 1
Sury-en-Vaux · 1
Verdigny · 1
The South7
Scattered from the Riviera to the southwest: Nice and Menton on the coast, the Languedoc hills, the Luberon, and out toward Toulouse and Albi.
Aspiran · 1
Fontjoncouse · 1
Menton · 1
Nice · 1
Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt · 1
Tournefeuille · 1
Villeneuve-sur-Vère · 1
Burgundy4
The Burgundy road: Beaune, the abbey cheese at Époisses, and Saulieu on the old N6.
Beaune · 2
Époisses · 1
Saulieu · 1
Lyon and the Alps3
East of the Rhône: Lyon, Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid up in the hills, and the lake outside Chambéry.
École · 1
Saint-Bonnet-le-Froid · 1
The North1
Lille, and nothing else yet. That is a fact about Jeff's saves rather than about the north.