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Tantris: Fifty Five Years in the Same Building
Open since 1971 and never moved, in the purpose built house it opened in. Munich has rebuilt itself around Johann-Fichte-Strasse 7. The address has not changed once.
Read the review →Thirty years on the bank of the Charente, a father and son in the same kitchen, one Michelin star, and a menu built on cognac, pineau, Atlantic fish and wild snails. The independence the region is supposed to have, actually held.
The kitchen
Thierry and Julien Verrat cook together at Bourg-Charente, father and son, and the restaurant has been running for thirty years. It holds one Michelin star. The room is a contemporary villa on the bank of the Charente with slate-grey walls and bay windows onto a terrace, looking across to the château and the vineyards behind it.
The region on the plate
The cooking is modern and the sourcing is emphatically local: cognac and pineau, fish off the Atlantic coast, wild snails, regional truffles. In a part of France whose name is owned by a spirit, it would be easy to cook a tourist version of the terroir. This is the opposite, a kitchen using the region because it is what is there, with thirty years of relationships behind the supply.
Why it pairs with the Charente
It sits about an hour from Domaine des Etangs, which makes the two of them a coherent two-day route rather than two separate recommendations. And it answers a question the estate raises: Domaine des Etangs is run by a collection, while this is a family that has held the same room for three decades. Both are worth the journey. Only one of them is what people usually mean when they say independent.
At a glance
- Chefs
- Thierry and Julien Verrat, father and son
- Running
- Thirty years
- Recognition
- One Michelin star
- Setting
- A villa on the Charente, 2 place du Port, Bourg-Charente
- The terroir
- Cognac, pineau, Atlantic fish, wild snails, regional truffles
- Service
- Wednesday to Saturday, lunch and dinner; Sunday lunch. Closed Monday and Tuesday
- Pairs with
- Domaine des Etangs, about an hour south
The TGC view
The Charente is a region we send people to for the land and the spirit houses, and it needed a table that was not an afterthought. This is it, and the two-day pairing with Domaine des Etangs is the version we book.
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