HAUTE SAVOIE FARE Megève in the French Alps
What with the puffy clothing, the bulky boots and the skis themselves, packing your kit for a snowy getaway can be pretty daunting. There’s not much room left in the case after that lot. But luckily for food-loving types, the most essential accessories for the best winter holidays can always be found on the spot: a knife, a fork and a spoon. All you need to pack is your appetite.
It’s been a while coming, but the restaurants in Europe’s best winter resorts have moved way beyond the long-running tropes of hearty soup, sausage, fondue and other cheese specialities. In fact, the new Alpine menus are light and surprisingly healthy. The following destinations showcase what the new (and a bit of the old) eating in the Alps is about.
MEGÈVE, FRANCE
Small-town glamour
RUSTIC CHIC An unassuming chalet houses two-Michelin star Les Flocons de Sel
PHOTOGRAPHS: ISTOCK, THINKSTOCK, CRAIG ROBERTSON, FRANCIS HAMMOND, MARTIN WEISS
The transformation of the pretty Savoyard farming village of Megève into one of the most chic winter resorts in the world began when the Baroness Noémie de Rothschild ‘discovered’ it in the early 1920s while searching for an alternative to St Moritz in Switzerland.