Uzès: L’Artémise

At L’Artémise in Uzès, chef Guillaume Foucault, who formerly worked with the brilliant three-star chef Pascal Barbot in Paris, displays a similar passion for seasonal produce. He also likes to surprise with the judicious but potent punctuation of exotic spices, like the intensely flavored Vietnamese black cardamom that gave an impeccably cooked dish of veal and slow-roasted eggplant intriguing notes of nutmeg and anise, or more locally sourced, the licorice root he uses in a superb tomato soup with black olives. Foucault’s tasting menus change regularly, but his skill is constant, and to add to the pleasure, his bistrot has a gorgeous setting in a magnificent old mas, a traditional Provençal farmhouse.

Chemin de la Fontaine aux Boeufs, Uzès, 04.66.63.94.14. Lunch menu €35, dinner menus €55, €70. Prices are per person, without wine.

Originally published in the November 2010 issue of France Today; updated in March 2012

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