Alain Ducasse au Château de Versailles

Alain Ducasse's dining room sits inside the Pavillon Dufour, part of the Château de Versailles itself, a genuinely rare setting for a meal, with a menu built around French classics done with restraint.

The dining room is small and the sightlines toward the Château's gilded gates are part of the draw, so tables by the windows are worth requesting when booking. The menu changes with the seasons but stays close to the vegetable and grain-forward register Ducasse has favored in recent years, a deliberate counterpoint to the opulence of the setting itself.

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