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Des adresses où l'accueil et l'architecture comptent autant que ce qui arrive à table.

The AM dining room — a single oak counter table set with leather chairs, a hanging panel of cork bark with trailing moss, dark walls, a row of bronze pendant lights, and the open kitchen visible at the back.

AM par Alexandre Mazzia

marseille, France

The vaulted brick cantina at Antica Corona Reale — a low Roman-tile arch in warm terracotta, tall walnut wine racks lining both walls, a single round table laid in white linen and crystal beneath the vault.

Antica Corona Reale

cervere, Italy

A wrought-iron gate and a stone wall with a small pale-pink plaque reading *Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler*, the late-classical manor house behind in autumn light.

Atelier Moessmer Norbert Niederkofler

brunico, Italy

The Atrio dining room — a long room of vertical timber fins, white-clothed tables and pale chairs, opening through full-height glass to a stone-walled garden.

Atrio

caceres, Spain

The Auberge du Vieux Puits dining room — round tables on a polished floor, chestnut leaf sculptures lit from behind on the back wall, a warm ridged lampshade over the centre table.

Auberge du Vieux Puits

fontjoncouse, France

Christopher Coutanceau in his whites, photographed in his kitchen on the seafront at La Rochelle.

Christopher Coutanceau

la-rochelle, France

A round table for two laid in white linen, two stemmed glasses and a simple bud vase, set against the open window of the chalet dining room with summer-green pasture and a wooden fence beyond.

Flocons de Sel

megeve, France

The dining-room counter at Home — a row of brushed-steel pendant lamps lowered over a polished metal pass, a wall of warm timber slats lit with thin vertical strips of light, the open kitchen beyond.

Home by James Sommerin

penarth, United Kingdom

The main dining room at La Madia — soft beige plaster walls, terracotta-leather chairs around white-clothed tables, two paper-cloud pendant lamps, and a long horizontal niche set with a small ceramic octopus and a pinecone vase against burnished black metal.

La Madia

licata, Italy

A flock of birds rising over the salt marshes behind L'Herbaudière at first light, low Atlantic sky and reed beds running to the horizon.

La Marine

noirmoutier, France

An empty round table for two on the marble cliff terrace, two oak chairs in the foreground, umbrella pines framing the view across the bay to the red-grey cliffs of Cap Canaille.

La Villa Madie

cassis, France

A classic Parisian bistro dining room with red banquettes and white tablecloths

Le Voltaire

paris, France

The Les Morainières dining room — three pale tables on a polished floor, a wall of plate glass opening onto rolling vineyards and the wooded ridge above, the Chapelle Saint Romain visible on a far rise.

Les Morainières

jongieux, France

The Mater Terrae dining room behind a floor-to-ceiling glass wine cellar — backlit bottles in dark steel racks, a sheer linen curtain, white-clothed round tables and slate-blue armchairs in front.

Mater Terrae

escaladei, Spain

Moor Hall at night seen across its lake — a row of pale-rendered gabled buildings with chimneys and lit ground-floor windows reflected on still water, a low fountain plume catching the lights between bare branches in the foreground.

Moor Hall

aughton, United Kingdom

The Pine dining room — round oak tables on a polished floor, sheepskin-draped chairs and a low orange-shaded pendant, a wide angled window opening onto the soft yellow stubble of a Northumberland autumn field.

Pine

east-wallhouses, United Kingdom

A finely dressed restaurant table at Plénitude

Plénitude

paris, France

The pergola dining room at Quattro Passi — a long bright veranda of slatted white timber with rattan armchairs around small wood-topped tables, set against a wall of glass that opens onto the pine-clad cliffs and Mediterranean blue of the Bay of Nerano.

Quattro Passi

nerano, Italy

The Black Swan at Oldstead — pale-stone pub with red pantile roof, picnic tables on a gravel terrace, a slate stone carved with the Black Swan emblem, ivy and chestnut leaves catching the summer light.

The Black Swan at Oldstead

oldstead, United Kingdom

The dining room at The Glenturret Lalique — round tables in pressed white linen on dark herringbone parquet, dark green velvet curtains, dark wood servery, and two large gold-lustre Champs-Élysées Lalique chandeliers hung from the vaulted plaster ceiling.

The Glenturret Lalique

crieff, United Kingdom

Ristorante Uliassi at dusk — a long, low pavilion of slatted white timber lit from within, lanterns on the terrace, a single white parasol open over the deck and the deep blue Adriatic sky settling above the arched skylights of the roof.

Uliassi

senigallia, Italy

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