Downtown Carmel is full of restaurant treasures that have been around for years like Beaujolais and Anton Michel. Perhaps more gourmet than the rest, L’Auberge is a cozy 12-table restaurant located just off the main drag with provincial mix of modern furnishings and rustic cottage-style charm. The restaurant, and hotel where it finds its home, is the only Relais Chateaux property on the Monterey peninsula with a fashionable following well aware of their foodie surroundings.
The Food
Dinner offers chef Christophe Grosjean’s farmer fresh 3-5 course tasting menus of plum foie gras tourchon, fava bean risotto with black truffle and braised kobe beef cheek with bordelaise jus. Best of all, the restaurant collection of 5,000+ bottles of Monterey County, California and French wines means an impromptu late-night tasting scene of neighborhood locals complaining, “Carmel isn’t nearly as small-town as it was once upon a time.” But then again maybe that’s not a bad thing.
Last Word
Acclaimed French hotel eatery in downtown Carmel proves top dining draw in town.
