Michel Guérard is one of the most important chefs ever lived. Few others have played a more significant role in the world of gastronomy. He was one of the driving forces and inventors of the nouvelle cuisine which drastically changed the view on traditional French cooking and he also invented the concept of cuisine minceur with healthier cooking. Chef Patron Michel Guérard has done endless good to all gourmets around the world, and you will still find him in his kitchen.

Eugénie-les-Bains is where you have to go to enjoy Guérard’s masterly cooking. This sleepy village is located deep in southwest France around 90 minutes of drive from Biarritz. The location has been a well-known spa retreat for hundreds of years and it is here you will find one of the best restaurants and spa resorts in the world. Michel’s wife, Christine Guérard, inherited the property from her father and together with the Chef she has established and developed a spa empire, in addition to running several restaurants.

The gourmet restaurant at Les Prés d’Eugénie is really something extra. It is amazing how high the quality of the restaurant stays year after year. Chef Patron Guérard has valuable assistance of his two Head Chefs Xavier Franquet del Rey and Stephane Mack who perform impeccably in the kitchen. Guérard’s amazing ability to always bring out the absolute ultimate from each ingredient will never disappoint you. This restaurant has gone beyond what you consider simplicity and perfectly balanced, indeed. It is highly impressive how this restaurant can make something so delicate and complex to appear so unpretentious and simple when it arrives at your table.

You will have straightforward and honest cooking which will appeal to every atom of your taste buds. The healthy and aware cuisine is of absolute top class, with dishes like the soft pillow of morels, wild mushrooms and asparagus tips with a silky symphony created upon returning from China. Other examples of dishes which will bring you to gourmet heaven are the small mackerels grilled on salt crust with truffle cabbage and redcurrant delights, and the wood and leaves beef basted in pearly grape juice with creamy potatoes, on one hand, grande tradition souffléed, on the other.

Michel Guérard has been one of the most important chefs now for more than 30 years, an accomplishment most only can dream about. What is even more impressive is that despite all his success he never rests on his laurels. He continues to develop and to give you some of the most amazing cuisine ever existed in this world. Les Prés d’Eugénie is a must reservation.

Image of Chef Patron: Courtesy Les Prés d’Eugénie

Written by Andy