Croquignolette and small internal terrace

Would it be a horrible year for bisontine gastronomy Time the city saw lost its star-shaped two Michelin. The first, the Mungo Park, that was a talented Cook, comes to change hands, and its buyer, sommelier of business, think make a bistro wine, and the second, Valentin, has closed its doors. Jean-François Mayor is transported with his brigade outside of Besançon in the castle of the White Lady (hotel was not until then renowned for its cuisine), with mission to level the restaurant of the hotel. At the same time, Chief, free of its movements, provides number of benefits private as a caterer and takes care of the Culinary Academy of Franche-Comté. Mungo Park and the Valentin offside, there to Besançon the pretenders to the stars

"Not me", assures David Jamen, which resumed in April 2005 with his aunt Claudine Braillard, ex-antiquaire, annex, small restaurant near the courthouse. This head of thirty-six years formed in Husser father deer to Marlenheim and for Emile Jung in the Crocodile, and Switzerland, like so many other boys from the large houses in recent years, think that to make the kitchen he likes without worrying of the Red Guide. If the latter the rewards, so much the better, but, in waiting, only to its furnaces, it activates. On his map at lunch, the formula is simple: vegetarian dish, soup, flat pasta according to mood (he worked in Switzerland alongside an Italian leader), and dish of meat with vegetables of the day. In the evening, the map is more elaborate, playing always vegetables of the day and season, with sometimes in addition a fish according to shipment. Salad of asparagus and shrimp vinaigrette garlic of bears, risotto carnaroli crayfish tails and dried tomatoes, filet mignon of pork in the oven, stew of Morels with yellow wine and vegetables. It is fresh, pleasant, and it feels in David Jamen the desire to please, going hand in hand with interesting products research, evidenced by these farmers cheeses refined by Didier Tardiveau ("the hole of mouse" under the covered market), and these wines leaving beaten paths. A selection made with "zinzins" of wine, vintage specialist of nature wine (which is also bar to wine), in which David Jamen enjoying regularly. In glasses, chablis signed for Moor, saint-chinian of Navarre, Binner alsace, etc. Croquignolette and small internal terrace.

Strong reputation

At the taste, the area of the wing, Thierry Perrod, who worked as a Baker in Freddy Girardet in Switzerland, has yet his Bistro décor to give it a more chic and current tone using a vitamin color furniture and more clever lighting. Another significant change, it has reduced the number of covered to keep everyone more comfortable. Etoile under rock Thierry Ponsot defends, because with a reduced team, and a nearest 'bistronomie' style, it does not really feel in the race, but the Red Guide tracks being impenetrable, you are going to know... If the desserts, ex-pâtissier, are delicious, the rest, entries and dishes, has no shortage of teeth. Book of cave-based wines of the world, and welcoming terrace at night.

Kind of country Inn in the heart of the city, the Poker of As, firmly held by the ferrous family for forty-five years, seems to pass through time. The father and son are in the kitchen and the room mother. The reputation is solid, and the daily rush. In the plates, the traditional Inn without past burdens, with sometimes a point of exuberance (as this variation ice on Strawberry: fresh Strawberry-mint sorbet and strawberry-Basil Strawberry Tagada), surprising in a rustic decor somewhat dated.

One regret, closing for holidays, when we in the city of Saint-Pierre (104, street swing, 03.81.81.20.99), appreciated restaurant in many bisontins both for its food as its atmosphere. It will return.