Lalique

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Lalique in Langon: Modern French Cooking Built Around Sauternes

Lalique is a modern French restaurant at 1707 route des Gourgues, Bommes, 33210, France, in Langon, where chef Jérôme Schilling holds two Michelin stars (2026). The kitchen builds its menus around Sauternes, the sweet wine made in the vineyards that surround the property.

Chef and cooking style

Jérôme Schilling treats Sauternes as a working ingredient, testing infusion, maceration, fermentation, crystallisation and poaching. Grape must, lees and vine shoots all appear in his cooking. The menu is revised each season with the chef sommelier. In 2023 he was named Meilleur Ouvrier de France in the cuisine category.

Dining room and table

The restaurant occupies a 17th-century main building and a modern extension suggested by Mario Botta, with a glass roof on a slender metal frame. The room seats 40. Its ceiling holds 120 gold-lustred Champs-Élysées crystal leaves designed by Lalique. Tables are laid with crystal, porcelain and Peugeot pepper and salt mills, copies of a 1924 design by René Lalique and Peugeot.

Drinks and dessert

Chef sommelier Logan Guignot-Truffley designed a digestif list meant to close the meal, with rare spirits, original creations and subtle pairings. The pastry chef builds desserts around Sauternes wine, and the wine programme has earned a Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence (2019).