René et Maxime Meilleur Les Belleville

Awards

MICHELIN Guide

Two stars restaurant, 2024

All Michelin stars in Les Belleville All Michelin stars in France All 2 stars Michelin in Les Belleville All 2 stars Michelin in France

OAD

European Classical Restaurants 2024, 35

All OAD European Classical in Les Belleville All OAD European Classical in France

Gault & Millau

4 Torques, 2021

All Gault & Millau in Les Belleville All Gault & Millau in France All Gault & Millau 4 Torques in Les Belleville All Gault & Millau 4 Torques in France

Gault & Millau Public Mark

17 / 20

Chef

René et Maxime Meilleur

Cuisine

Creative, Regional Cuisine

• 2023
• 2018
• 2016

Dinner at HOTEL RESTAURANT LA BOUITTE - SAVOIE

on 26 Feb 2023

by Neil A. Chef

The next stop on last year’s alpine tour was dinner and a room at ⭐️⭐️⭐️ La Bouitte in Saint Martin de Belleville. Perfectly nice food, in beautiful surroundings. The room they gave me was apparently the chef René Meilleur’s bedroom as a boy, but I suspect they tell that to every guest in every room.
The food was nice, although I thought that maybe the more traditional style of René’s was perhaps fighting a little with the more modern desires of son Maxime. That’s just my... More

The next stop on last year’s alpine tour was dinner and a room at ⭐️⭐️⭐️ La Bouitte in Saint Martin de Belleville. Perfectly nice food, in beautiful surroundings. The room they gave me was apparently the chef René Meilleur’s bedroom as a boy, but I suspect they tell that to every guest in every room.
The food was nice, although I thought that maybe the more traditional style of René’s was perhaps fighting a little with the more modern desires of son Maxime. That’s just my opinion though. I also felt that the service was lacking a little both in warmth (compared with some of our recent meals at this level) and in actual competence, with the sommelier falling behind twice and needing prompting also. Wines were introduced with the briefest of descriptions so that he could go to spend more time with tables of locals. At least that is how it appeared from my perspective. Not somewhere that I would rush back to which is a shame as I very much enjoyed my first visit here a few years ago. Although that was for a Vega Sicilia wine event so wasn’t a typical experience.
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Michelin Guide - ⭐️⭐️⭐️
OAD - 35 (classical list)
W50B -
Best Chef Awards -
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7 / 10

Wine dinner with Vega-Sicilia at La Bouitte

on 10 Jan 2018

by Neil A. Chef

A collaborative wine dinner at 3* restaurant La Bouitte in Saint-Martin-De-Belleville with some incredible wines presented by Pablo Álvarez of Vega-Sicilia. The menu was specifically tailored to match with the wines by the legendary Father and Son team René & Maxime Meilleur. A thoroughly enjoyable and educational evening.

6 / 10

Dinner at Restaurant La Bouitte

on 20 Apr 2016

by Gerhard Huber

Another completely useless 3 star restaurant.

Set in the French mountains in a really nice old building it serves food which can only be described as a joke. The food sort of matches the monstrosities only the French can put up in their mountains with no respect for the environment.

The “masterpiece” being a peasant dish which probably will be served in the local restaurant for €6 much better. The menu started and ended with an ice concoction which had no taste but left you with a brain... More

Another completely useless 3 star restaurant.

Set in the French mountains in a really nice old building it serves food which can only be described as a joke. The food sort of matches the monstrosities only the French can put up in their mountains with no respect for the environment.

The “masterpiece” being a peasant dish which probably will be served in the local restaurant for €6 much better. The menu started and ended with an ice concoction which had no taste but left you with a brain freeze.

To be fair the riz de veau (lower left) and the trout (upper right) was excellent.

Don’t waste your time hiking up into the French Alps. Less

6 / 10

Dinner at René et Maxime Meilleur

on 20 Apr 2016

by Gerhard Huber

Another completely useless 3 star restaurant.

Set in the French mountains in a really nice old building it serves food which can only be described as a joke. The food sort of matches the monstrosities only the French can put up in their mountains with no respect for the environment.

The “masterpiece” being a peasant dish which probably will be served in the local restaurant for €6 much better. The menu started and ended with an ice concoction which had no taste but left you with a brain... More

Another completely useless 3 star restaurant.

Set in the French mountains in a really nice old building it serves food which can only be described as a joke. The food sort of matches the monstrosities only the French can put up in their mountains with no respect for the environment.

The “masterpiece” being a peasant dish which probably will be served in the local restaurant for €6 much better. The menu started and ended with an ice concoction which had no taste but left you with a brain freeze.

To be fair the riz de veau (lower left) and the trout (upper right) was excellent.

Don’t waste your time hiking up into the French Alps. Less