Guide Gantié at Château de Berne
Launch of the Guide Gantié 2012
Around five hundred guests - chefs, restaurateurs, hoteliers, food and delicacies producers and winemakers - have gathered Monday, June 4, for the launch in the Var od the "Guide Gantié" of restaurants in Provence-Cote d'Azur organized at the Château de Berne, Relais & Chateaux in Lorgues. Didier Fritz, CEO, and Christine Monteil, hotel manager, welcomed the guests with delicious canapés concocted by chef des cuisines Sebastian Nouveau's team. Fifteen producers, suppliers and winemakers were displaying their products or expertise in the aisles of Château de Berne, including Château Font du Broc or Château Roubine who presented delicious wines to be tasted, Thador - The Lobster House, which was presenting blue lobster to be savored, or even the Pain Petifour - Bread For Chefs which was letting people sample an incredible array of breads in all shapes and tastes for prestigious restaurants. Gantié Jacques, creator of the Guide Gantié celebrated the release of its 21th guide surrounded by chefs from the Var like Thierry Tiercelin, Sébastien Sanjou and Bertrand Collombat, but also chefs from the Alpes-Maritimes, including Christophe Bacquié, Stéphane Raimbault (2 Michelin stars), René Bérard, Geoffrey Poësson, Hermance Carro, Thierry Barot, Eric Maio, Benoit Witz, Alain Mari...
The Guide Gantié is a selection of gourmet adresses: restaurants and local produces (farmers, small artisans, shops). It also offers a rangeof guest rooms, attractive hotels, Provencal recipes and a restauration job market. Across the Alpes de Haute Provence, Alpes Maritimes, Bouches du Rhone, Var and Vaucluse, the Guide Gantié is listing 604 restaurants located in 195 cities, 365 shops and regional products specialists through 171 cities: chocolate, fish and shellfish, organic products, biscuits, pastries, cheeses, gingerbreads, nougats and markets.
Jacques Gantié is a literary and gastronomic critic, author of the weekly chronicle “Saveurs,” and a collaborator on several specialty magazines in France. He is the author of various works on tourism and cooking, among others Saveurs de terroirs de Provence (Flavors from the Heart of Provence) with Richard Olney (Editions Robert Laffont), Nice la Belle (Gilletta), Guide de la Provence Authentique (Guide to the Authentic Provence - Editions Ramsay), Tout Miel : 70 recettes aux miels de Provence (All Honey : 70 recipes using Provence honies) with Guy Gedda (ROM Editions), and La Cuisine du Mas du Langoustier (Cooking at the Shrimper’s House) with Jo’l Quillet (ROM Editions), which gained the Prix du Terroir awarded by the city of Sainte-Maxime in October 1998 as part of France’s national gastronomy week. He has been awarded the National Prize for best gastronomic criticism in print media awarded in Angoulème in December 1997. In addition, M. Gantié was awarded the Francis Amunateguy National Prize for Gastronomic Criticism in 1994, recognizing his overall contribution to the gastronomy as well as the Louis Marinier prize awarded by the Union of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Supéreurs.
Château de Berne in Lorgues
The Auberge of the Château de Berne is a recent Relais & Chateaux stopover. The 600 hectares wine estate has celebrated its tenth anniversary. Mr Mark Dixon, British businessman and owner and general manager, Mr Didier Fritz furbish hundred projects between hotel, restaurants, vineyards and cultural season with Jazz concerts and theme days such as antique fairs or Terroir Day as well as art exhibitions. The four stars Hôtel has 19 newly-refurbished rooms and suites, subtly decorated in "chic country" style, a fitness center, saunas, a massage and beauty salon, a heated swimming pool, a tennis court, and pétanque pitch. In this place with many activities, chef Sebastian Nouveau, a veteran of Jacques Chibois, has the desire, the manner and the mastery to animate two restaurants: the Bouscarelle, a Provencal Brasserie at midday, with grilled meals on vine shoots and in the evening, the Orangeraie, the gastronomic restaurant, with pergola terrace, near the fountain at the square, opposite the castle. The hostel also has its country Bistro, friendly and accessible, to discover this charming address with Provencal luxury. The wine cellar offers Rosé, red and white wines and Château de Berne wine specialists are pleased to introduce the aromas, the robe and tannins during a wine tasting.
Photo exhibition by Salvatore Troia at Château de Berne
« Fruits and Vegetables» Color prints on plexiglass 60x90