Les Orfèvres in Amiens offers very good gourmet cuisine and perhaps suffers only from a service that lacks a little rhythm.

For my first evening in Amiens, I chose to dine at Les Orfèvres, a gastronomic restaurant located near the Cathedral with a very good reputation.

You will find a summary of the articles about this trip to Amiens at the bottom of the page.

The concept

Les Orfèvres is a restaurant offering bourgeois cuisine that promises to be gastronomic and gourmet. Its dishes offer a touch of creativity on a classic base.

The setting

The restaurant is located in an old building in the historic center, close to the cathedral.

The dining room is simple and warm, with a heavy use of wood and simple decor.

The menu

The establishment offers different menus depending on the number of courses you want. I chose the most complete one.

Please note that for dinner service there are only set menus, no à la carte dishes.

The meal

I arrive quite early and the room is empty. I’ll have to wait a little before I’m taken care of and seated at my table, and then a little longer before I’m really taken care of.

The waitress comes to show me the menus: I can choose between two “blind” menus and a tasting menu (which I presented above). I choose the latter precisely because I prefer to avoid menus whose composition I don’t know.

The contact is really pleasant and the waitress (obviously the chef’s wife) very friendly.

I order a glass of champagne to start.

Just when I think they might serve something to nibble on, it comes.

Very fine and tasty.

In the meantime, the room has completely filled up.

I’m offered a wine pairing but I’d rather have fewer drinks and go at my own pace, so the waitress offers me an “adapted” wine pairing.

The first course arrives…but not in the order of the menu.

Oyster saint Vaast n°1, gratinated with lemon.

Excellent with the oyster in the middle of a creamy lemon sabayon. And you can still taste the oyster.

A little waiting before the next course.

Haddock ravioli from JCD, haddock skin powder, Timut pepper.

This is the chef’s signature dish.

Smoky, light and creamy, I love it.

Green asparagus from the Ferrent house with a roasted chicken jus.

Perfectly cooked, from crisp to melt-in-the-mouth. I really like the chicken and onion sauce.

Morel stuffed with scallops, hazelnut butter.

The texture is a little surprising, and you can taste the scallops and the morel without either of them taking over. Very well-balanced.

Roasted Breton monkfish, kohlrabi, tarragon.

Well cooked and melt-in-the-mouth. The cabbage is very good, as is the sauce, and the tarragon is a fine but not overpowering accompaniment.

Duperier duck, lightly smoked, foie gras, celery, full-bodied jus.

The duck is cooked at a low temperature.

You can eat everything, even the fat.

The cooking was perfect, but the acidity of the sauce prevented me from really appreciating the meat. It’s better with a part of the duck that hasn’t been in contact with the sauce, where there’s a very pleasant smoky aftertaste.

I couldn’t find the foie gras, but was it necessary?

A little more waiting before the next course arrives.

Financier with almonds, liveche tuile, vanilla mousse, Tahitian vanilla ice cream.

Fresh and light, the perfect finishing touch.

Well, to say the least, the property delivers on all its promises. It’s sophisticated without being complicated, and really enhances a classic base that brings out the best in the product.

The atmosphere

Pleasant, subdued without being sad or heavy.

The service

Very friendly and pleasant staff. The service may have lacked a bit of rhythm, but it “s always complicated for the staff with tables of one for whom time doesn’t pass at the same speed as for others.

In any case, very convivial.

Bottom line

An excellent gourmet restaurant that keeps its promises, with creative but not overly creative cuisine that puts the spotlight on the products. And so much the better, because expectations are high when a provincial restaurant offers a menu at the same price as some of Paris’s starred restaurants.

The articles about this stay in Amiens

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