Kinugawa Courchevel

Kinugawa Courchevel is the Alpine sister to the Paris Vendôme and Mont-Thabor rooms — the sushi counter, the robata grill, the dinner that the Asian clients of 1850 have built into the short list. The room is the rare proper Japanese kitchen in the resort and the only address of its kind in the village.

Book the sushi counter for two, take the omakase and the black cod, drink the cold sake. The dinner is the right Courchevel answer for the third evening of a long stay when the Savoyard food has done its work — and the kind of address that the long-stay regulars take for the rotation that the season needs.

The Japanese rotation on the third evening.