La Robe

La Robe is a fine-dining restaurant in Montaigu offering a modern, product-driven cuisine anchored in seasonality and proximity; a dedicated garden and close local producers supply many items, and the sommelier has curated a cellar of classic appellations and singular artisanal producers while the site blends old stone with contemporary interventions and contains intimate private salons. The dining room opens onto the medieval douves and flowerbeds; interiors are cosy and comfortable and guests may sit outdoors under a pergola, while an adjacent loft-like bistro room uses green hues and mixed materials to reference the restaurant’s vegetal identity. The cuisine is modern French and contemporary fine dining that magnifies products through precise cooking, subtle vegetal accompaniments and concentrated reductions; the adjacent bistro L'Atelier revisits French bistro classics and offers seasonal weekday lunch formulas with attention to provenance and balanced accompaniments. Xavier Giraudet trained in Vendée, completed a long formative period in Paris within brigades of multi-starred chefs and obtained the Michelin star in 2017. Specialties include seasonal seafood (brill, skate, tuna, lobster), pigeon and duck preparations, poultry and pork sourced locally, vegetarian plates from La Robe’s garden, seasonal asparagus and truffle dishes, classic bistronomy at L'Atelier and uses of local honey.