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Le Caveau’s vault: stone wall and laid tables
Beneath the inn

LE CAVEAU

A vaulted room under the inn, a few hundred bottles, and time to choose the right one, then open it.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 18:30, booking required
The other room

Upstairs, the restaurant feeds the day. Downstairs, Le Caveau draws it out: darker, slower, evenings only.

Wine by the glass · bottles · the cellar table
The counter at Le Caveau, under the vault
The place

Stone, oak
and low light.

Under the dining room, Le Caveau keeps the cool of old houses. Come down for a glass or sit down to eat, in a quiet room among the bottles.

No endless wine list, no noise: the owner opens the bottle, tells you where it comes from, and lets the wine finish the sentence.

From the wine list

Valais first, but not only.

A short list, chosen with care, that gives pride of place to the Valais without stopping there. Estates from Switzerland, France and further afield, with bottles we love to drink and to share.

Whites

by the glass · by the bottle
Amigne de VétrozVétroz · barrel-aged
Petite ArvineFully · on the lees
FendantVal-d’Illiez – Sion
HeidaVisperterminen · high vineyards

Reds

by the glass · by the bottle
CornalinSierre · old vines
Humagne RougeChamoson
SyrahCoteaux du Rhône
Dôle de pinotConthey

The full list is on the slate downstairs. It changes as new wine comes in.

Prices on the list, at the table.

The winemakers

We know
the hands.

Le Caveau favours small estates run by real people, with a selection that travels from the Valais to the great wine regions of France. Winemakers, terroirs and bottles chosen above all for what they say in the glass.

In autumn, the house runs trips from cellar to cellar. See the late-season journal.

The late season
A laid table against the stone wall of Le Caveau
At the cellar table
The table at Le Caveau

Supper among the bottles

On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, from 18:30, Le Caveau lays its table d’hôte around a theme, built around the wines rather than the other way round. The theme is announced on the restaurant’s board and on our social media. The price is announced each week on our social media. By reservation only.

Themed evenings · Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 18:30 · vegetarian on request
Book Le Caveau

A few tables,
among the bottles.

Le Caveau is a room in its own right, more intimate, beneath the brasserie. Come for dinner for two, with friends or as a small group. For special occasions (birthdays, tastings, team dinners) it can also be booked privately.

THE BRASSERIE, UPSTAIRS
Terrine, salad and a glass of red wine