La Table des Airelles

The Table des Airelles is the lunch buffet at the palace on the front-de-neige — the most theatrical alpine spread of the resort, with the seafood counter, the mountain produce, the pâtisserie work of Sarkara extending into the lunch hour. The room is the rare ski-lunch that the Airelles guests return to instead of skiing for half the day.

Book the buffet for the long lunch at 13h, take the lobster and the alpine cheese, drink the rosé. The room is the right Courchevel answer for the day when the slope is the wrong call and the long lunch is the right one — and the kind of address that the children of the palace guests still talk about a season later.

The palace buffet for the snow-day lunch.