Le Chalet de Pierres

Le Chalet de Pierres is the institution on the Verdons piste, family-run since 1962 — the long pavement terrace on the snow, the lunch that the resort regulars take three times a season, the pâtisserie cart that the children remember for the next year. The kitchen is the polished alpine version of the long lunch that the family has refined over six decades.

Take the terrace at 13h on the clear day, order the cheese plate and the steak frites, drink the rosé and finish with the pâtisserie cart. The room is the right Courchevel answer for the long lunch that does not need the festive idiom — and the kind of address that the long-stay families build the week around.

The Verdons lunch on the long blue day.