Florent Pietravalle
Hôtel La Mirande
Avignon, France
La Mirande is one of the most beautiful hotels in France. While it’s always had good chefs, they’ve moved on without causing a stir. Let's hope Florent Pietravalle stays. His menu reads almost like an adventure novel: the best of the vegetable garden with Migliore oyster, XO sauce, samphire, buckwheat and flat bread, Figatellu sausage and Brousse de Rove cheese, burnt onion with sardine, caviar garum, horseradish and beef marrow. His dishes are all highly technical and carefully put together.
