La Chassagnette - Restaurant bio - UK

A new rosé wine on the menu

2008-04-23T06:33:11+02:00

The rosé Chateau Haut-Musiel 2007 has just been added to the wine list of La Chassagnette. "This wine combines the festive spirit and the sharpness that one expects of a rosé wine, yet it is full-bodied enough to hold its flavour with any meal. It marries extremely well with Armand Arnal's cuisine", summarizes the wine-grower Jean-Marie Popelin. So, what's the secret? This rosé comes from two separate vinification processes, which are then bottled at the Chateau Haut-Musiel, at Domazan in the region of the Gard, which is 45 minutes away from Arles. It is to be tasted by the glass or by bottle at La Chassagnette, in the sunshine of the Camargue.
For more information, consult the website at: http://www.hautmusiel.com/

Chef’s cooking class

2008-04-13T11:04:14+02:00

La Chassagnette cookery classes are available, according to different formulas in French or in English.
For the individual class, the chef Armand Arnal will welcome a group of 8 people maximum every Monday and Friday morning, in his kitchen.
Rendez-vous at 9a.m in La Chassagnette’s organic vegetable garden, where you can wander and talk with the gardeners, but, most of all, pick the vegetables and herbs that you will need to prepare the dishes on the menu. Your basket under your arm, you will return to the kitchen where Armand Arnal will guide each of his students in the creation of their vegetarian dishes; giving advice in everything from basic cooking methods to those little professional “tricks”. Once the preparation is over, it’s time to sit down together to an extraordinary lunch, where each person is both cook and guest.
The same formula is available for companies, who may choose a shorter version of the class, lasting one and a half hours, leaving time, for example to hold business meetings in one of the private rooms or in La Chassagnette’s personal library.
Another original idea proposed: cooking with four hands. For the evening, you can become the chef of La Chassagnette. Armand Arnal will be your personal teacher and will help you prepare a dinner that you will share with your guests, who will most certainly never forget this moment, just as you won’t…

Prices
Cookery classes: 90 euros for individuals, half-day course (lunch included)
Every Monday and Friday morning except in July and August.
For businesses : prices available according to the number of participants (contact La Chassagnettte)
« Four-hands » cookery class: prices varying according to the number of guests (contact La Chassagnette)

For information and reservations:
coursdecuisine@heureuse-camargue.com

Winter Break

2008-01-23T16:07:52+01:00

As every winter, headchef Armand Arnal and head-waiter Michel Miahle’s team makes a break…to refill the battery, to find out new favours and to create new recipes. Everyone will be back for the re-opening on Thursday, February 21st 2008, as a foretaste of Spring. We announce surprises for the re-opening as cooking courses…further information will be published on our blog shortly.

Meanwhile, the whole team of La Chassagnette wishes a good winter to all its clients and friends.

Meet up on February, 21st!

For group reservation during the restaurant’s closing, please dial +33 (0)4 90 97 20 29

Celebrations in Camargue

2007-12-20T10:08:38+01:00

For Christmas holidays at La Chassagnette, the headchef Armand Arnal is preparing a refine and contemporary version of gastronomic Christmas and new Year’s customs. His ambition: match the winter flavours and multiply the celebration’s savors. And renew the traditions to cook up in the heart of Camargue many new Eve dinners, tonic and audacious, epicurean and warm-hearted.

Opened during the holidays, the restaurant La Chassagnette sublimates the magnificent harvest of the season: fall and winter fruits, fleshly and round savors of squashes, pumpkins, soil-scented mushrooms, root-vegetables…the recipes are inspired of season’s late fruits as well: plums and figs, apples, quince, grapes and dried fruits, pears and citrus fruits.

For the 25th of December 2007, Armand Arnal will inspire himself freely of the traditional Provencal Christmas diner which will start with a squash soup and will finish with the 13 desserts, through a chorus of fishes and winter vegetables. All being smothered by the light of the candles.

To celebrate the new year, the chef unbridled his imagination and propose in a Sea-Soil menu a symphony of contemporary and sophisticated flavours, evocating and rhythmic tastes. Armand Arnal think of the new year’s eve as a gustative and festive adventure, a friendly and impassioned ride to well-start 2008.

The restaurant will be opened on Tuesday, December 25th 2007 (closed on Monday’s night)

For Christmas’ menu (lunch on December 25th): starters, fish or meat, cheese+13 desserts.€55

For New Year’s Eve menu, Sea-Soil: four starters, fish, meat, cheeses, pre-dessert, dessert…with a selection of regional great wines. €145.

Reopening on December, 6th

2007-11-21T22:02:39+01:00

La Chassagnette’s team is taking a break before Christmas holidays. The restaurant will reopen on December, 6th ready for celebrating Christmas and the New Year with an outburst of flavours and happiness…

A premiere: the Sake menu

2007-10-01T15:38:02+02:00

It’s a premiere in France : from now on La Chassagnette offers a tasting menu mixing Japanese sake with Mediterranean cuisine. According to headchef Armand Arnal “the absence of tannin, the alcohol light-potency, the mineral harmony of sake offer a neutrality matching perfectly with acid and sour flavours of the Mediterranean cuisine’s vegetables and olive oil".

Armand Arnal has selected several Isaké’s sakes chosen to accompany each course of his menu. "The sake is able to vanish its personality to accompany meals with simplicity and give ground to a gustative alternative », highlights the chef who currently proposes his squash cream soup with jabugo, pears and sage of a red Premium Isake Fustsuu... It’s an unique sensory experience, a complete different way to sense the flavours.

Menu is served every evening for the whole table for 75€ per guest.

To learn more :

http://www.isake.co.uk/

In The Summer Time

2007-07-10T19:00:32+02:00

During summer, La Chassagnette is back on the market of Arles every Saturdays morning. Fruits, vegetables and fresh-cut herbs coming from its own organic garden are sold (Ecocert certification) as well as “Heureuse Camargue” organic culture rices and surprising tasting. Installed at Esplanade Charles de Gaulle, La Chassagnette’s stand is in the heart of one of the most colourful markets in Provence.

At Sambuc, the restaurant is now at summer time and will be opened every weekdays for lunch and diner until September.

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La Chassagnette viewed by "Le Monde"

2007-07-04T21:38:07+02:00

Daily newspaper Le Monde gastronomic reviewer, Jean-Claude Ribaut, wrote in glowing terms an article entitled « La Chassagnette cultivates the cooking of the garden » in the June, 28^th 2007 edition.

" The in vogue table, outside the walls of Arles, is La Chassagnette, a former sheepfold turned into an authentic living place(…). The most extraordinary thing within this housed land, is the organic vegetable garden, thought by Maja Hoffmann, whose 180 vegetables and herbs species composed the menus of the chef Armand Arnal, 29 years-old, heading the brigade since 2006. Calm and determined, humble, this young chef seeks his inspiration out in the nearly bodily relation he has with the products of the garden" notes Jean Claude Ribaut.

"Four appetizers, many main courses and deserts, different from lunch to diner, are the expression of an authentic way of cooking, law key and gourmand. A young sommelier gives precious attention to the regional wine cellar. The amiable service is led by Michel Mialhe, an other one coming from Ducasse’s", highlights the reviewer from the prestigious Parisian daily newspaper.

La Chassagnette, en Arles, cultive la cuisine du jardin
LE MONDE | 27.06.07

Figaro Magazine Congratulations

2007-06-08T09:41:18+02:00

The last Mediterranean edition of Figaro Magazine dedicates a whole article to La Chassagnette speaking highly of it. “Anthem of good sense, the organic hectare of La Chassagnette is an authentic star with a real personality. It’s the favourite playground of Armand Arnal (…) who creates new tastes by glorifying all this vegetables and herbs. He dares to conjugate softness with tonic, imagines new marriages, insists on fish, melts the flavour of flowers with vegetables' ” has written journalist Olivier Gagnebien who has concluded his article by: “ Vegetables and fish paradise does exist. Unfortunately, we stop by way too briefly.”

La Chassagnette at Japanese Time

2007-05-24T14:53:22+02:00

Land of rice, Japanese tourists love Camargue, dozen of thousands of them visit Arles every year in the footsteps of Van Gogh. They have shown interest in the “Arlésiennes” costumes and the traditions of Provence as well…as the delight of food. For them, La Chassagnette has just launched a Japanese version of its webblog. The head chef Armand Arnal admires the food of the archipelago he was on vacations last winter. About Japanese clients of La Chassagnette, they specially enjoy the fresh-cut vegetables from the organic garden and the food which is both imaginative and fine.

Visit the Japanese blog: http://lachassagnettejaponais.blogspirit.com/