La Chassagnette - Restaurant bio - UK

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

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

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.

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…

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/