Sylvestre Wahid · Les Grandes Alpes

Sylvestre Wahid's room at Les Grandes Alpes is the alpine return of the Paris-trained two-star chef — the kitchen that the gastronomic short list of the village now starts with, the precise tasting menu, the wood-and-glass dining room of the small palace. The two stars have held since the chef arrived and the kitchen has earned the reservation list independent of the hotel guests.

Book the round corner table for four, take the long tasting menu, drink the wine pairing. The dinner is the right Courchevel answer for the gastronomic evening that does not want the palace dining-room idiom — and the address that the regulars now treat as the most carefully run kitchen in the village.

The gastronomic dinner on the second evening.