Origins: on a road between the Tarentaise and Maurienne Valleys, Belleville Valley began developing as from 2000 B.C.
In 1976, René and Marie-Louise purchased a potato field to create the restaurant La Bouitte (which means “little house” in the Savoyard dialect). There they began treating their guests to simple, generous Savoyard fare. Joined in 1990 by their children Sophie, Maxime and their spouses Florent and Delphine, over the years they built the chalet of their dreams, carved wood, harmonised the noblest materials of their ancestral region.
Since being awarded a second Michelin star in 2008, expanding in 2011, and recently in 2015 the 3rd star, La Bouitte unceasingly enhances its personality. “Born hard workers”, “lovers” of their native Savoie, building is in their genes. With their own hands, they fashioned La Bouitte, giving the establishment a local foothold and sound roots. Today, gourmets from around the world and mountain lovers gather here to find fare with authentic flavours.
A duet crafting of creative, wholesome cuisine.
A duet crafting of creative, wholesome cuisine
Working hand-in-hand with their loyal staff, day after day, the duo René and Maxime Meilleur compose subtle gastronomic scores in the idyllic setting of their Savoyard chalet. The new kitchen (over 100 m²) with its state-of-the-art equipment promotes inspiration. It features a table d’hôtes “La Table des Meilleur” in a lovely vintage wood decor for 6 guests to enjoy a thrilling experience dining to the pace of two creative chefs. Here, hospitality rhymes with pleasure. Harmony, cheer and understanding your wishes prevail.
In keeping with the image of restuarant and the new dining room looking our over the mountains, the cuisine at La Bouitte is natural and enticing. In harmony with its environment, it draws its strength from products brimming with connotation and history.
The quest for perfection gives way to refining recipes, purifying their creation and gradually approaching a certain notion of completeness and distinction.
According to the seasons,
fera, char and perch from Lake Geneva and Lake Bourget, heirloom vegetables, chanterelles and cep mushrooms, truffles, Tarentaise beef, distinctive hams, “confidential” cheeses (serac, Termignon blue, Persillé Tignes), in addition to freshly-picked fruit, herbs and wild plants! .
Starters:
Polenta
Corn grains, lardo di Colonnata, toasted bread infused with milk.
Duck foie gras escalope
Served on a corn - flavoured pancake with acacia honey,
balsamic vinegar reduction.
Caviar
Alverta Imperial, cauliflower snow, wild hazelnuts oil.
Tuber Mélanosporum truffle
In slices, Institut de Beauvais potatoes soup
Fresh water fish and shell fish:
Fario Trout
Poached with melted fresh butter, sorrel carrots, acidulated mousseline sauce.
Frogs legs
Boned cooked “meuniere”, black garlic, watercress, parsley emulsion.
Scallops
Roasted, mousseline of parsley root, lemon caviar.
Crawfish
Small pasta thickened in juice, almonds, donut to be delicately taken.
Meat and Offal:
Free range poultry
“From La Cour D’Armoise”, mousseline beans, truffle.
Prime cut of beef
Browned in frying pan , turnips, herbs.
Sweetbreads
Caramelized with “Agria potatoes” and horseradish tube,
wood smoke.
Venison
Yacon, Rose hip jam.
Desserts:
Milk
Presented in different ways: jam, meringue,
sorbet ice-cream, biscuit……
Saffron from “Les Granges”
Sweet shortcrust tartlet with passion fruit.
Apple
Crunchy-Melting, sorbet, ginger touch.
Tuber Melanosporum Truffle
Inspired by “Ile flottante”, powdered with chocolate heart of Guanaja.
To focus on quality and freshness, depending on what nature gives us each season and should be picked at the right time, and René Maxime Meilleur, Maître restaurateur, offer you to choose a surprise menu in different way that can (if you wish) be submitted to you.
We take pleasure to cook for you at this moment to put a variation of travel in our universe taste.
This choice promises top quality and surprising compositions at the best price. You will be surprised!
Let us guide you, we'll do the rest!
Thank you for your trust ...
Discovery of three surprises ... 115 €
Initiation at "la Bouitte" in 3 courses
Discovery of 4 surprises ... 145 €
Inspiration of "la Bouitte" in 4 courses
Discovery of 5 surprises ... 175 €
Development of "la Bouitt" in 5 courses
Discovery of 8 surprises ... 225 €
Extract from "la Bouitte" in 8 courses with cheese
(in adapted portions according to the number of dishes in this menu)
A striking dining establishment where the art of invention and the love of Savoie make for a long history of universal exchange.
Select ingredients, mountain-pasture herbs and refined composition... a mountain of thrills.
Starters:
Polenta
Corn grains, lardo di Colonnata, toasted bread infused with milk.
Duck foie gras escalope
Served on a corn - flavoured pancake with acacia honey,
balsamic vinegar reduction.
Caviar
Alverta Imperial, cauliflower snow, wild hazelnuts oil.
Tuber Mélanosporum truffle
In slices, Institut de Beauvais potatoes soup
Fresh water fish and shell fish:
Fario Trout
Poached with melted fresh butter, sorrel carrots, acidulated mousseline sauce.
Frogs legs
Boned cooked “meuniere”, black garlic, watercress, parsley emulsion.
Scallops
Roasted, mousseline of parsley root, lemon caviar.
Crawfish
Small pasta thickened in juice, almonds, donut to be delicately taken.
Meat and Offal:
Free range poultry
“From La Cour D’Armoise”, mousseline beans, truffle.
Prime cut of beef
Browned in frying pan , turnips, herbs.
Sweetbreads
Caramelized with “Agria potatoes” and horseradish tube,
wood smoke.
Venison
Yacon, Rose hip jam.
Desserts:
Milk
Presented in different ways: jam, meringue,
sorbet ice-cream, biscuit……
Saffron from “Les Granges”
Sweet shortcrust tartlet with passion fruit.
Apple
Crunchy-Melting, sorbet, ginger touch.
Tuber Melanosporum Truffle
Inspired by “Ile flottante”, powdered with chocolate heart of Guanaja.
To focus on quality and freshness, depending on what nature gives us each season and should be picked at the right time, and René Maxime Meilleur, Maître restaurateur, offer you to choose a surprise menu in different way that can (if you wish) be submitted to you.
We take pleasure to cook for you at this moment to put a variation of travel in our universe taste.
This choice promises top quality and surprising compositions at the best price. You will be surprised!
Let us guide you, we'll do the rest!
Thank you for your trust ...
Discovery of three surprises ... 115 €
Initiation at "la Bouitte" in 3 courses
Discovery of 4 surprises ... 145 €
Inspiration of "la Bouitte" in 4 courses
Discovery of 5 surprises ... 175 €
Development of "la Bouitt" in 5 courses
Discovery of 8 surprises ... 225 €
Extract from "la Bouitte" in 8 courses with cheese
(in adapted portions according to the number of dishes in this menu)
Learning about ingredients, herbs, make dishes, the La Bouitte summer school, open to all, will whet your appetite!
Teach their way of cooking, sharing their expertise and experience is the pleasant challenge embraced by René and Maxime Meilleur each year a for several weeks in summer.
To offer such courses to interested individuals, they have created 2 packages: a 4-day course from Sunday evening to Thursday afternoon, with or without accommodation. Afterwards, you will have the opportunity to sit out on the terrace and enjoy the dished you have prepared.
To keep the focus on the quality, the number of participants is limited to 8 per course.
Impossible not to love winter or summer at La Bouitte. Nearby, the most beautiful and spectacular landscapes in Savoie.
Wintertime is gliding time! Ski delights of every type: downhill, cross-country and off-piste across Les 3 Vallées, the most extensive ski area in the world, with 200 lifts, 330 runs, 600km of marked trails. In summer, hiking. All the mountains are yours for the taking: cliffs, lakes torrents, forests, fishing, flower-picking... Whatever the season, Saint-Marti, a charming 3 Vallées village, draws skiers and lovers of life’s finer things from 65 countries attracted by its authenticity.
With its Chateau & Hotels Collection label, La Bouitte features a cosy, preserved setting in its 10 guest rooms and suites in the village of Saint Marcel, and a private chalet in Saint Martin de Belleville to host you in this beautiful region of Savoie.
Each room is unique, built in stone and wood, like a warm, welcoming home, so characteristic of our mountains... the ideal base for an irresistible stay! For joyous memories of Savoyard tradition, enjoy a taste of paradise in the heart of Belleville Valley. »
The wellness centre, Jacuzzi and sauna are freely accessible to guests from 9.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
The unique, delightfully intimate “La Bèla Vya” Mountain Spa is an invitation to travel. In the even the most remote Alpine valleys, the art of treatment using products that the environment has to offer has never wavered. Water, milk, hay, honey, herbs... have always worked wonders.
The wellness centre, Jacuzzi and sauna are freely accessible to guests from 9.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Treatments and massages are available from 3.30 to 8.00 p.m.
For reservations, please contact the hotel reception or wellness centre at the start of your stay.
The sauna is not recommended for children under 16.
Children must always be accompanied by an adult when using the Jacuzzi.
You’d love to give your teams a breather, provide them with a cocoon away from the pressures of the work environment.
Welcome to La Bouitte where you will receive a warm welcome from a family who, with their own hands, built this friendly chalet which is the epitome of fine living and well-being. It owes it magic to a skilful blend of authenticity, modernity, simplicity and commitment to excellence. Your conference at La Bouitte will certainly make an impression by unleashing creativity and developing interpersonal relationships.
Conference room
A cosy lounge fully equipped with top-of-the-range facilities in 2014.
Une halte gastronomique et cocooning au coeur des 3 Vallées ! Ambiance douillette et authentique dans cet hôtel de charme et son restaurant gastronomique prisé. Un séjour rêvé à la montagne.
Le prix comprend : 2 nuits en chambre double, un menu "carte blanche" par jour sur 2 jours, petits-déjeuners, accès au spa (sauna et jacuzzi), un massage soin de 30 minutes "bain de Marie" accompagné d'une coupe de champagne
Le prix ne comprend pas : transport, boissons et dépenses personnelles.
Cette offre est valable uniquement hors week-ends, hors périodes scolaires et selon disponibilités.
TOTAL IMMERSION COOKERY WORKSHOP
In additional to the traditional courses (see page 9), René and Maxime Meilleur now give real enthusiasts the chance of a half day total immersion with La Bouitte's brigade and how they operate. An exceptional opportunity to discover the life, rigour and creativity of this team of 20. Workshop for one to three participants, subject to the Chefs' availability. The workshop starts between 8h30 and 9h and finishes at the end of the lunchtime service (at about 15h). 175 € per person.
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Encouraged by its first year's success, La Bouitte organises, for the third year running, exceptional themed evenings about the greatest wines on the planet. They are a delight not only for wine experts, but also for amateurs looking for a discovery and a sharing moment. They prime excellence, simplicity and conviviality.
With a superb cellar of 1001 references, La Bouitte has already distinguished itself by the creation of innovative oenological events (analysis of the influence of altitude on wine tasting ...).
Once a month, La Bouitte will give carte blanche to a wine grower to present guests a selection of their greatest achievements. These events will revolve around a series of food and wine marriages. An opportunity to sample not only famous great wines, but also to reveal some future "greats as well as less known vintages. And to understand how a culinary composition is transcended by a wine, and vice versa.
The presence at these dinners of the most brilliant wine critics (Michel Bettane, Bernard Burtschy) will encourage passionate exchanges making these evenings even more interesting.
Programme :
17/12/2014: Raphaël Reybier invites us on a memorable journey from the best of Saint Estèphe (Cos d’Estournel)
3/01/2015: L’Hermitage with Jean-Louis Chave, a real artist from the North of the Rhône Valley. Michel Bettane, the most famous French wine taster, will help us pierce the mysteries of these mythical wines.
11/02/2015: quintessence of geology and biodynamics. From Rangen de Thann to Brand, Olivier Humbrecht from the Zind Humbrecht Domain offers us an evening with some of the greatest white wines in the world.
March 2015 (day yet to be fixed): an immense privilege and delight to taste the wines from the Romanée Conti Domain, in the presence of Aubert de Villaine (owner and manager).
16/04/2015 : Dominique Belluard shares his passion for an local identity and a forgotten grape (le Gringet): wines with character, amongst the most successful in the 2 Savoys.
These evenings will start at 19h30. They are offered at very preferential prices (from 190 € per person), including a Carte Blanche 5 course menu, a selection of water and all the wine offered by the winegrowers and La Bouitte. The wine budget included for each guest comes to several hundred Euros, often between 500 et 1000 € : this is thus an incredible opportunity for all wine lovers to taste great and hard to find wines.
Package all inclusive :
from 323€ per person for :
1 night in double room
the dîner
the breakfast
IN THE « LA BELA VYA » SAP, A NEW TREATEMENT WITH NATURAL BENEFITS
To help you recharge your batteries, La Bouitte invites your to discover a treatment, especially created for its Spa : « Alpine Pasture memories ».
Since the time of our ancestors, mountain plants have been used for their health virtues. We invite you to discover the benefits of a massage with Alpine plants. After enveloping and calming movements, the Alpine herb packets are heated then delicately applied. This novel massage combines relaxation and vitality.
65 € for 30 mins or 115 € for 55 mins.
New for 2013
Without ever deviating from an incontestable simplicity, La Bouitte (« little house » in the local Patois) continues its quest for excellence, both in the kitchen and in the standard of its services and welcome. In 2012 this was rewarded by an entry into the select circle of the « Grandes Tables du Monde», (Great restaurants in the world), which brings together 149 of the best restaurants in 22 countries over 4 continents. Its values are a passion for taste, the protection of heritage and an innate sense of lifestyle.
FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS LA BOUITTE HAS EXPERIENCED THE MOST IMPORTANT EVOLUTION OF ITS HISTORY
With the help of the architect Alain Feuillet, René and Maxime Meilleur have really made the best of the adjacent house, acquired in autumn 2011. As well as strengthening its identity, La Bouitte has gained in comfort and space. At the end of 2011 and in 2012, a new Baroque dining room, a new kitchen, a “table d'hôtes” and new living areas have been created.
A superb chalet has been created adjoining La Bouitte with a lounge – seminar/incentive room, a new cellar and garages. 6 bedrooms and suites have come to life, making La Bouitte even more up-market. Amongst these, the panoramic« Marie » suite, 75 m², benefits from windows on three of its sides, wonderful exposed roof beams, a cosy sitting room with open fireplace and a superb bathroom with balneotherapy jacuzzi and shower.
For these new bedrooms, La Bouitte's spirit persists : authenticity, cocooning, but also a sense of detail and an enhanced quality of equipment. For the interior decoration and furniture, René and Maxime Meilleur combine with obvious pleasure, the typical Savoyard identity (popular refined art, Baroque heritage …) with a more designer touch.
As for the restaurant, the kitchen has once more been expanded with an area dedicated to the pâtisserie department (its total surface area is now 150 m²). It now multiplies the possibilities available to the 2 chefs and their 20 cooks (absolutely precise cooking times, optimal organisation, more functional cookery courses with their clients ....). A full time baker has also been recruited.
This year, we will focus on receive seminars by fiting out a conference room to welcome entreprises who wish to have a nice stay with us.
A programm of activities like cooking courses, winter sports,hiking, canyoning and rafting, SPA activities,, discovery of René and Maxime's cooking, lunch in a mountain restaurant... will be proposed to help them to spend real good time.
Informations and booking : + 33 479 08 96 77 or info@la-bouitte.com
Classic Room, Aurélie
Room for 2 or 3 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with sofa and coffee table.
Bathroom with a corner bath and separate toilets.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Classic Room, Angéline
Room for 2 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with two armchairs, coffee table and storage.
Bathroom with a corner bath and separate toilet
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Classic Room, Léa
Room for 2 or 3 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Desk corner with table, chair and storage.
Bathroom with shower and separate toilets.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Classic Room, Emilie
Room for 2 or 3 people with double bed (160cm).
Living room, with twin bed (90cm) or sofa, coffee table and storage.
Bathroom with a corner bath and separate toilet.
Gorgeous view on the village, mountains and restaurant terrace.
Shared entrance with Junior Suite, Anaïs.
New room for 2 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with table chair and storage.
Bathroom with shower and toilet.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Shared entrance with Junior Suite, Celestine.
New room for 2 or 3 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with table chair and storage.
Mezzanine bedroom with 1 or 2 simple beds.
Bathroom with shower and toilets.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Communicating with Luxe Suite Joséphine and shared entrance with Luxe Suite Elise.
Classic Room, Melanie
Situated in the village of St-Martin de Belleville, free shuttle available to get to the main hotel .
Room for 2 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner, with armchairs, table storage and wine cellar.
Bathroom with jet shower and toilet.
Balcony, southeast facing and view on the mountains.
Shared entrance with Luxe Suite Delphine.
Junior Suite, Lucie
Suite for 2 to 5 people on two floors.
One room with double bed (160cm) and two rooms under roof with double deb (180cm) or twin beds and one with a twin bed (90cm).
Desk corner with chair and storage.
Bathroom with bath and separate toilet on first floor and shower and toilet on second floor.
Shared entrance with Luxe Suite Leonie.
New suite for 2 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with table chair and storage.
Bathroom with bath and shower, double sinks and separate toilet.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Shared entrance with classic room Agathe.
Junior Suite, Anaïs
Suite for 2 to 4 people on two floors.
One room with high double bed (140cm) and one room under roof with double deb (180cm) or twin beds.
Living room with sofa, coffee table, fireplace and storage.
Bathroom with shower and toilet on first floor and bath on second floor.
Shared entrance with classic room Emilie.
Luxe Suite, Léonie
Suite for 2 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Living room with sofa, fireplace and storage.
Bathroom with jet shower, and separate toilet.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Shared entrance with junior suite Lucie.
Luxe Suite, Delphine
Situated in the village of St-Martin de Belleville, free shuttle available to get to the main hotel.
Room for 2 people with double bed (180cm).
Lounge corner, with armchairs, table, walk-in and wine cellar.
Bathroom with overflowing bath and separate toilets.
Balcony, southeast facing and view on the mountains.
Shared entrance with classic room Melanie.
Perfect for romantic journey.
New suite for 2 or 3 people with double bed (200cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with table chair and walk-in.
Mezzanine bedroom with 1 or 2 simple beds.
Bathroom with bath and shower, double sinks and separate toilet.
Balcony, southwest facing and village view.
Communicating with classic room Juliette and shared entrance with Luxe Suite Elise.
New suite for 2 people with double bed (180cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with table chair and walk-in.
Bathroom with bath and shower, double sinks and separate toilet.
Village view and morning sunrise.
Communicating as a duplex with panoramic suite Marie, and shared entrance with Juliette and Josephine.
New suite for 2 to 4 people with double bed (200cm) or twin beds.
Lounge corner with armchairs and coffee table.
Living room with fireplace, sofa and coffee table, surrounded by windows.
Walk-in with desk corner, chair and table.
Bathroom with whirlpool bath and shower, double sinks and separate toilet.
Balcony, southeast facing, mountain view and morning sunrise.
Communicating as a duplex with Luxe suite Elise.
La Bouitte's chalet is located in Saint Martin de Belleville near the slopes, we provide transfers to the main building where the restaurant is located. Representating the expertise and the welcome quality of la Bouitte as a typical Mountain Chalet... It has 3 bedrooms with double or single beds, bathroom and shower room, kitchen and laundry. The large living room offers a fireplace and access to the terrace facing south-east.
Facilities: TV, free Wi-Fi.
Bath of milk and honey from our mountains.
Milk is an ideal element to soften and moisturize the skin with its vitamins and minerals. It is the product nobler than the mountain offers a source of well-being, and gives the skin a special glow.
As for the honey in the field of beauty, this natural product has been widely used since the time of pharaohs. It is ideal to moisturize and tone the skin.
Twenty minutes of pleasure that we recommend that you renew by taking 10 min of rest in a bed of grass.
For 1 person - 70 €, for 2 persons - 120 €
(A glass of champagne will be offered during the treatment in order to fully enjoy this moment)
Steam bath in the hay cut above 1400 m of height in our valley this summer. Alpine very fragrant scents. The treatments based on hay are very popular and are synonymous with a return to nature.
Lenght 30 min - 45 €
After walking or just for fun, reflexology helps you find serenity and well-being. A soothing and nourishing gestures reflex zones of the feet, relaxing effects are felt throughout the body.
Lenght 30 min - 65 €
Massage and wrap, sweet toned, adjusted to your needs of the moment. All the techniques necessary for the well-being put to work with a selection of essential oils.
Lenght 30 min - 65 €, lenght 50 min - 110 €
Let yourself be touched by the softness and fluidity of enveloping massage. Smell the delicate fragrance of essential oils. Indulge in relaxation with respect and delicacy. Find the path to wellness.
Lenght 30 min - 65 €, lenght 50 min - 110 €
To Tibetan tradition, the KunYé takes you on the ways of relaxation. The body is massaged with whole oils ancestral recipe. Muscles are kneaded, mobilized and relaxed in depth.
Finally, smooth the journey to the land of relaxation, a light exfoliation, flour is made.
Lenght 1h15 - 140 €
Legs and foot massage. With soft and enveloping movements accompanied by a subtle blend of essential oils, find pleasure in relaxed your legs.
Length 30min - 65€
Leg massage, alterning tonic movements and kneading deep, allowing muscle relaxation and elimination of toxins. To refresh and relax your muscles.
Length 30min - 65€
Soft and energy back massage and facial, including the top of the bust, neck and head, leading to the release of tension.
Rhythmic repetition of strokes, pressure and stretching promoting the circulation of energy and providing physical and mental well-being
Length 55 min 115€
Hôtel Restaurant Gastronomique La Bouitte
Hameau de St Marcel - 73440 St Martin de Belleville - France
GPS :
Lat. N 45° 22' 14.0808''
Long. E 6° 30' 42.0618''
info@la-bouitte.com
