Best RESTAURANTS near Nice, France: Truffles at “La Bastide Saint-Antoine”, Grasse

Today, we’re at “La Bastide Saint-Antoine”, a hidden gem located 30 minutes from the coast in the city of Grasse. It’s one of the best restaurants on the French Riviera, renowned for its exceptional chef Jacques Chibois, stunning terrace views, and a distinctive winter specialty: dishes infused with fresh local black truffles. This Bastide, by the way, is not just any random country house in the hilly hinterland – this is where the Kennedys spent endless summers, and Mick Jagger even spent a full year back in the 70s. Today, it functions as a hotel, which, of course, you’ll get to check out as well.

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La Bastide Saint-Antoine – https://www.jacques-chibois.com/en/
(48 Avenue Henri Dunant, 06130 Grasse)
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RECIPE by Jacques Chibois (La Bastide Saint-Antoine)
“Mushroom Soup with Truffle Slices and Foie Gras”
(Le Fin Mousseux de Champignons aux Lames de Truffes au Fondant de Foie Gras Terrine)

Ingredients for 3-4 servings:

30g butter
50 g peeled shallots
200g button mushrooms
2 tablespoons of white wine
2 tablespoons of Noilly Prat (French vermouth)
100g crème fleurette (liquid cream)
1 pinch freeze-dried chicken stock
½ tablespoon of Porto (wine)
300g water
80g black truffles (tuber melanosporum)
100g of Foie Gras terrine (can be left out to turn the dish vegetarian; in that case also replace the chicken stock with vegetable stock!)
½ lemon

Preparation:

Melt the butter in a 1.5-2 liter saucepan over low heat. Add finely chopped shallots, turning them frequently to achieve an even blonde color, i.e., cook for 5 minutes.
Then, add the washed and sliced button mushrooms and simmer gently for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring constantly.

Add the white wine and Noilly Prat, cook for 2 minutes, pour in the water, cream and a pinch of stock, then cook, covered, for 5 minutes after reaching a boil.

Peel the truffles with a small paring knife or vegetable peeler after brushing and washing them well. Add the peelings to the mushroom cooking mixture. Season with salt and pepper.

Pour this cooking mixture into a blender bowl and process on the highest speed for a few minutes.

Lightly recook the “mousseux” in a saucepan, boil with the Port wine and a few drops of lemon juice. Check the seasoning and whisk well to re-form the foamy texture.

Place the foie gras, cut into 1 cm cubes, on the bottom of a tureen or serving plate.
Carefully pour the soup over the foie gras and arrange very thin slices of truffle, ensuring they cover the entire top of the “mousseux”.

French truffle growers’ union (Fédération Française des Trufficulteurs):
https://www.fft-truffes.fr/
Our region (SUD – Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur/PACA) is represented here:
https://www.fft-truffes.fr/fr/regions/provence-alpes-cotes-d-azur/structures#demos
(and Michel Santinelli, president of the union in PACA, is the one explaining truffles in the field in this video 😉

Oil Mill that we mention, “Huilerie Sainte-Anne” in Grasse:
https://huilerie-sainte-anne-boutique.com/

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Clips of Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones: thanks to “La Galerie de l’Instant” in Nice (https://www.instagram.com/lagaleriedelinstant/)

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Today we’re in La sine a Hidden Gem 30 minutes from the coast famous for its top-notch Chef stunning Terrace views and a certain winter specialty dishes infused with fresh local black truffles so if you’re up for an unforgettable meal this is the spot and guess what you could even stay over

Night explore grass and check out its iconic perfumeries we’re zooming into the hilly Hinterland of the cotazur where north of can you’ll find the city of grass in the green Countryside below the old town with views as far as the sea jef Jac shua has found his very own

Paradise and opened his famous restaurant laas sine almost 30 years ago right here in the yellow country house where buan villea will make for a bright purple wall a little later in the year celebrities like the cedes and MC Jagger have spent weeks and months Mr shua told

Us Jagger still drops by regularly and talks about the funny old days of the late 60s and early’ 70s we’ll come back to that when we take you to the hotel suites because Ana and I are actually mostly here today to try some truffle dishes we were treated to incredibly

Delicious and beautiful dishes starting with these fantastic amus B before moving on to the even better stuff Jac sha has shared his recipe for the mushroom soup with us and we’re sharing it with you check out the description below the video when we asked about M sh’s love for cooking with

Truffles he told us that he sees black truffles as quintessentially French treasure boasting exceptional quality and aligning perfectly with winter cooking he also said that black truffles are referred to as black diamonds that we would offer to those close to our hearts a truffle meal becomes an invitation to share quality

Time an embodiment of the joy and emotions Define French cuisine at its core making every meal a celebration of togetherness the most important characteristic of the black truffle is its fragrance to shim trff are magic they enhance other ingredients so he suggested keeping dishes simple to create the perfect stage for truffles Cooking with truffles is a breeze we learn as M sha advised minimal cooking whether raw or grated on dishes like risato their fleeting fragrance is best preserved by adding them at the last minute we learned a lot about black truffles that day fungi that smell and

Taste way better than they look while at the same time we were impressed by the Armada of cooks working hand in hand and how it can take 15 minutes for a single plate to end up looking like this and we were happily satiated after an incredible meal that even ended with a

Dessert that was refined with truffle cream I’ve actually known Miss sha for quite a long time back when I worked as a journalist I remember remember it must have been at least 10 years ago that he took me to the market in KN where he goes every morning at 5 a.m. he goes

There to get fresh vegetables and everything I met up with him in the middle of the night and yeah we went to nice and and did the shopping together if you want to go truffle shopping there are truffle markets all over the place in Winter our region is Rich in Truffles

They grow all around the most important markets are a little further west though in the Departments of vus and VAR here on the French Riviera a truffle Market is held in a different town or Village every week from December to the end of February in January there’s even one at

The Bas San in grass and every Friday you can buy truffles in L hey if this is the second video you’ve watched of ours do us a favor and subscribe and now let’s go back to the film Anna and I went to Grier last weekend a tiny place in the mountains an

Hour from the coast and apart from all kinds of fine local products there was a stand with the famous black diamonds run by the local truffle Growers Union for €120 that day you could get 100 G of Truffles They also sewed microzed trees host trees that will form a symbiotic relationship with traff such as hazelnut trees Oaks and lime trees so why not grow your own delicacy it’ll take around five to eight years until you can dig up your first black tuber we were told that

In our region in the very southeast of France the warmth and calcarius soil are ideal for trold even though today host trees need irrigation due to climate change and here’s a cool tip for locating traff when there are no weeds around a tree but burnt soil instead that’s an indicator that mushrooms are

Active in the ground now let’s get back to the based s Antoine where Jai promised to show us his hotel and the garden there are over a thousand olive trees on his enormous property on a Hilltop some of which are ancient and every year he produces endless amounts of olive oil pressed at

The S an by the way which we’ve already shown you in another video his rhau hotel opened in 2000 and we expected nothing short of stunning spacious rooms and Suites in the yellow main building from the late 1700s are all different but all are decorated with a typical proval touch

Light colors and lovely details but what we were most impressed with were the stunning Views When we headed to the former Stables of the ancient property today a more contemporary place with lots of wood Stone and leather it suddenly became obvious that M shua had saved the best for last the Penthouse And while we discovered the entire building the so-called extension we learned Lots about the history of the based where the canes spent their Summers for 20 years straight before World War II and where MC Jagger stayed for a year in the early’ 70s because he was friends with the OWN son back then

The bued belonged to an industrial family from northern France so if you decide to stop by perhaps for the Truffle Market held at the bued on the first weekend in January don’t be surprised to encounter familiar faces so now you are here and you stayed overnight you should absolutely check

Out gon on your way home so and if you don’t have any clue about gon have heard of this little Tiny Village just click on this video and you will find out a lot more to do