Le Clos des Sens Annecy

Awards

MICHELIN Guide

Three stars restaurant, 2024

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Green star, 2024

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OAD

European Classical Restaurants 2023, 47

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La Liste

La Liste, #235

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Restaurant Ranking

Restaurant Ranking 2023, #160

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Gault & Millau

4 Torques, 2021

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Gault & Millau Public Mark

17 / 20

Chef

Franck Derouet

Cuisine

Creative

• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2019

Dinner at Restaurant Le Clos Des Sens Annecy Le Vieux

on 10 Jan 2024

by Reisa Jiang

Not as impressive as the first time, but still the best mushroom salad ever •
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Not as impressive as the first time, but still the best mushroom salad ever •
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Dinner at Clos des Sens

on 20 Feb 2023

by Neil A. Chef

Pear quintessence with juniper
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Madeleine out of the oven
Frozen candy with Kalamansi
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Lunch, dinner and a room at ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Clos des Sens in Annecy.
On this tour that I completed last Spring, the plan was to visit approximately 100 restaurants over the couple of months that I was fortunate enough to be able to take off work. The first stage of the tour started around Lyon and the plan was to then drive to Lech in Austria over 10 days or so, stopping at some of my favourite restaurants... More

Pear quintessence with juniper
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Madeleine out of the oven
Frozen candy with Kalamansi
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Lunch, dinner and a room at ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Clos des Sens in Annecy.
On this tour that I completed last Spring, the plan was to visit approximately 100 restaurants over the couple of months that I was fortunate enough to be able to take off work. The first stage of the tour started around Lyon and the plan was to then drive to Lech in Austria over 10 days or so, stopping at some of my favourite restaurants along the way.
On this first, lakes and alpine stage, I learnt two things. The first is that there is no such thing as too many enormous cheese chariots. Indeed, one can never have enough as far as I’m concerned, and in this region, I definitely reached peak cheese.
The second lesson I learnt was that there is absolutely such a thing as too much low temperature cooked lake fish. If I see another fera fish or pike perch, presented as a luke warm mush, I will not be held responsible for my actions.
That said, I really enjoyed my meals at Clos Des Sens. They were kind enough to present two different menus for me to enjoy as I was returning solo for dinner. They probably won best cheese chariot of the many (as you will see) that were rolled towards me over that week, and also I think me and Ildiko were agreed that the sommelier (I wish I could remember his name) was one of the best we had both ever had serve us. Hugely knowledgeable as you’d expect about the wine, but also engaging and knew the menu back to front. It seemed like he could have probably cooked it.
Definitely worth splashing for one of the stunning rooms if you dine here.
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OAD - 39 (classical list)
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Dinner at Le Clos des Sens

on 19 Jan 2023

by Reisa Jiang

Le Clos des Sens, 3 Michelin stars — despite being pescatarian, this meal was the culinary highlight of the trip. The mushroom dish was definitely one of the best expression of the ingredient I’ve seen in any French restaurant. •
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Le Clos des Sens, 3 Michelin stars — despite being pescatarian, this meal was the culinary highlight of the trip. The mushroom dish was definitely one of the best expression of the ingredient I’ve seen in any French restaurant. •
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7 / 10

Lunch at Le Clos des Sens

on 23 Mar 2022

by I. Anna A

Fantastic location with nice ambiance, excellent front of the house staff and a very enthusiastic sommelier. It could be a fabolous restaurant if the food would be on the level of the service and the surroundings. the only stand out dish is a the signature mushroom salad Savoie and the of course their cheese trolley. And this is it!!

7 / 10

Dinner at Clos des Sens

Top list

on 19 Jun 2019

by Gerhard Huber

On of the two new three stars in France. I have been there in 2009 and then again in 2017 when it was a two star restaurant. In my opinion it remains exactly that, a two star place. Why the Guide elevated it to the highest tier is not entirely clear to me.

The food is great, the dining room and location fantastic and the front of the house professional, polite, funny and patient.

However, the dishes although excellently conceived, fall too often down because of flaws in the execution. The Kohlrabi... More

On of the two new three stars in France. I have been there in 2009 and then again in 2017 when it was a two star restaurant. In my opinion it remains exactly that, a two star place. Why the Guide elevated it to the highest tier is not entirely clear to me.

The food is great, the dining room and location fantastic and the front of the house professional, polite, funny and patient.

However, the dishes although excellently conceived, fall too often down because of flaws in the execution. The Kohlrabi in a safran bouillabaisse, a dish which could have been phenomenal, was overcooked, watery and too soft. The wild trout was strangely without any taste by itself and clearly needed some more seasoning. The only really outstanding dish was the starting mushroom salad. Here everything was perfect, the presentation, the mushroom as the main ingredient and the shallots which added the necessary acidity to the dish.

I do hope that these execution flaws were just accidents and are indicative for the restaurant which showed tonight below its potential.

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