10 course dinner menu.
Highlights: the wine list. Perhaps the best priced fine dining wine list in France, and worth a trip there alone. The lobster dish with melon and an almond milk veil was one-of-a-kind. Lamb and pigeon were great, as was the matcha pasta course with mountain cheese. The tempura sardine with seaweed crisp was delicate and flavorful.
Not so good: the bread course, which had the texture and look of monkey bread, was terrible. No flavor, just a mealy, gritty, cold buckwheat focaccia. It was a standalone course (red flag) and there was no additional bread offered throughout the meal. The tomato dish was not for me — a cold foam of tomato with tomato’s inside that had the texture of day old chipotle pico de gallo. The pacing of courses was very inconsistent. Super slow, then super fast, on-and-off, on-and-off. Would have preferred consistency.
On another note, Valence was not a very nice city to visit. Would recommend training from Lyon, we stayed the night and there wasn’t much there.
by ChezCooper
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That bread course looks like it belongs at a Cinnabon, not a 3 star restaurant! 🤢
That is indeed amazing wine
Did you get the white mille-feuille?
Great tip re Lyon, thank you. I’ll definitely consider Pic on my next visit.
I gotta ask…how well-priced are talking here?
Why didn’t you like Valence? I personally quite like the cities in that region including Valence.
I wasn’t so keen on Pic when I went two weeks ago. I agree on the horrible bread that managed to be dry and oily at the same time. The first two courses left a really strong bitter aftertaste. The best course for me was the lobster, but I found that poorly balanced, with the almond flavour overpowering everything else. It was one of the worst three star meals I’ve had in all honesty. There was nothing delicious. It was presentation and originality over flavour, as it so often is in two and three star places.