Le Grain De Sel - Val-d'Isère

Facilities, location food, and staff are simply excellent

Very comfortable hotel. large bedroom, huge beds. village center. wonderful staff good eating.

Very good reception, comfortable room, friendly staff.

We feasted , upon entering the reception, family and local cuisine, a real delight at all levels , to do

I have to say that I probably didn't do this meal justice as I'd stupidly had a large lunch that day. The place is very nice and the service is excellent, they really did go out of their way to look after us. When we walked in we had a drink at the bar first where we were presented with 2 types of bread and a deep fried piece of foie gras. Nice start Then they took our order at the bar and gave us a goats cheese cone, an oyster and more foie gras. Then we sat down at our table, where we were presented with a poached egg in a dark crispy shell with more foie gras. And this was all before the starter! I like foie gras but I felt there was a bit too much. Then we had our starters of scallops and black truffle which were excellent. We then had the chefs speciality, a whole roast chicken (with black truffle under the skin) carved at the table. By this time I wasn’t really hungry and had to start forcing a little in. The problem was there were 2 servings of chicken each! I declined my 2nd serving. The chicken was nice but having had black truffle with the starter, it was probably a mistake to have it again with the main. The main was served with garlic mash. Now I love garlic but this was way way too strong, it was inedible. We then had a sorbet amuse bouche followed by desert which was ‘award winning’ profiteroles. (These were sourced externally and not produced by the chef). They were amazing (see pic) Then we had coffee and a mini chocolate selection before my wife rolled my back to the chalet. Personally I wouldn’t rush back but as I say I probably would have appreciated it more if I was hungry when I arrived. It is better than average