Hotel Restaurant Montmirail

Take the time to visit Henri Bungener's excellent family winery in Vacqueyras.

This organic vineyard with its award-winning wines and comfortable and completely outfitted gites (self-catering apartments and homes) on the property are

I travel to visit family here 3/4 times a year and over the last 8 years have been to most if the restaurants in the area. This one is not by any means the most expensive but I think the best. Great menu de jour with limited other choices but who cares when the food is so good. Also really good wine list of proven local, good wines. Marc, the Patron and family will look after you with charm and care...and of course is a hotel so you can stay too. Only downside is it's closed from about Oct till mid April.

We reserved here for dinner as the restaurant at our hotel was closed. Our previous visit to ths establishment (for dinner and an overnight stop) was 30+ years ago(!). It is still owned and run by the same family, with the same enthusiasm and "savoir faire" that we enjoyed so much years ago.This time we had dinner on the terrace and enjoyed an excellent menu du jour - good and imaginative cuisine full of flavour and of superb quality for a very reasonable price. This restaurant is a gem - do give it a try, you will find that it is well wrth it.

We did not stay at the hotel, we only stopped there for lunch after the first part of a long hike in the Dentelles. Lunch was wonderful, in their beautiful garden. We left and got lost on the trail, hot and tired. We retraced our steps to the hotel, having gone twice our projected trip. Too tired to return we asked the proprietor to call a taxi, but when one was not to be found offered us a ride back to our car in Gigondas. So, a gret place for lunch but even better for warm and friendly service.