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Eating & Sleeping

hrestaurant noon-2pm Wed, Sat & Sun, 7-9pm
Vaux-en-Beaujolais 3 Wed-Sun, closed Dec–mid-Mar; paWs)
This charming inn features 13 rooms in various
4 Auberge de Clochemerle Hotel €€ buildings scattered around the village. They’re
(%04 74 03 20 16; www.aubergedeclochemerle. all equipped to the highest standard, but the
fr; 12 rue Gabriel Chevallier; d €60-185, q €200, vast suites are the ones to aim for. Dinner at the
restaurant menus €42-81; pW) A pleasant restaurant is a gourmet affair, with standouts
combination of modern and traditional, this like coq au vin de Juliénas (chicken cooked in
atmospheric hotel smack dab in the centre has Juliénas wine) and Charolais beef fillet.
12 stylishly refitted rooms, some with vineyard
views. Dining at its Michelin-starred restaurant is
a treat. Chef Romain creates eleborate Beaujolais St-Amour Bellevue a
meals using the best local ingredients, and his B&B €
wife Delphine is a renowned sommelier – wine 4 Le Paradis de Marie
pairings are an adventure. Brilliant value. (%03 85 36 51 90; www.leparadisdemarie.com;
Les Ravinets; d €85, caravan €95, incl breakfast;
hApr-Oct; pW) Have a decadently bucolic ALPS, JURA & RHÔNE VALLEY 19 BEAujOLAIS VILLAGES
Villié-Morgon 6 rest at this relaxing place, a lovingly restored
stone mansion exquisitely situated not far from
4 Château de Bellevue B&B €€ the main street. The five rooms open onto a
(%04 74 66 98 88; www.chateau-bellevue.fr; courtyard, while the romantically furnished
Bellevue; d incl breakfast €99-160; pW) For the gypsy caravan in the garden will please those in
ultimate château experience, you can’t do better search of an offbeat experience.
than this attractive venture nestled amid seas 4 L’Auberge
of vineyards. Françoise Barbet will welcome you du Paradis Boutique Hotel €€
in perfect English and offer you a personalised
tour of the winery and the cellars. The five rooms (%03 85 37 10 26; www.aubergeduparadis.fr;
are spacious and country-chic elegant, with soft- Le Bourg; d €145-260, menu €70; hrestaurant
toned fabrics and sweeping vineyard views. 7.30-9pm Wed-Sun; paWs) Beaujolais’
iconic, much-beloved inn occupies a village
house restyled into an urban-chic, design-led
Fleurie 7 boutique hotel. Oh, and there’s the fantastic
restaurant – the creative, inspired cooking
5 Auberge du Cep French €€ (expect top-quality ingredients served with a
(%04 74 04 10 77; www.lecep-fleurie.fr; Place de symphony of spices) draws diners from afar.
l’Église; mains €18-28, menus €20-58; hnoon-
2pm & 7-8.30pm Tue-Sat, noon-2pm Sun)
Traditional cooking at its best. Feast on regional Solutré c
specialities such as pike-perch, snails, perfectly 5 La Courtille
fried frogs’ legs, and rosy tenderloin of Charolais French €€
beef (France’s best) in a rustic dining room. de Solutré
(%03 85 35 80 73; www.lacourtilledesolutre.fr; rte
de la Roche, Solutré-Pouilly; mains €24-25, lunch
juliénas 9 menus €16-28, menus €40-44; hnoon-2pm &
7-8.30pm Wed-Sat, noon-2pm Sun) Chef Adrien
4 Chez La Rose Hotel €€ Yparraguirre does traditional dishes exceptionally
(%04 74 04 41 20; www.chez-la-rose.fr; Le Bourg; well, with a creative twist. Sit on the shady terrace
d €69-125, ste €90-215, mains €17-22, menu €29; or head into the rustic-chic interior.

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