Restaurant La Bastide Saint-Antoine
Chef Jacques Chibois has held two Michelin stars at this 18th-century bastide on the edge of Grasse since 1995, cooking a cuisine so rooted in Provençal ingredients — truffle, olive oil pressed from his own trees, Sisteron lamb — that eating here feels like a definitive argument for why this region exists. The lunch menu is the most civilised way to spend a Wednesday afternoon in France.
The food and the setting
Chibois's signature dish of sea bass with caviar and cream of caviar has been on the menu for two decades because it is simply perfect; the kitchen also produces a rotating seasonal tasting menu that follows the Provençal calendar with unusual rigidity — asparagus in April, black truffle in January, fig and almond in September.
The bastide sits in four hectares of olive and citrus groves that supply the kitchen directly; tables on the stone terrace under ancient olive trees are the ones to request, and they fill months ahead in July and August.
Practical advice for booking
The weekday lunch menu (three courses) starts at around €65 and represents extraordinary value for two-star cooking; the full dinner dégustation runs to €195. Reserve via the restaurant website at least three weeks ahead for summer weekends.
A smaller, more casual lunch is sometimes available at the bar for walk-ins — worth asking about if you haven't booked, especially on a quiet Tuesday in spring or autumn.
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