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Café Brochier is a bistro and modern cuisine kitchen at 4 place de la Fontaine, Saint-Julien-en-Vercors, in the Villard-de-Lans area. Le Fooding named it Best village café in 2024, and the café has run as a restaurant since its former village grocery was reopened.
Valentine Mollero and Thomas Lecluse run the café, she at the counter and he at the stove. The menu follows the market and leans on zero-kilometer sourcing from Vercors producers. The Michelin Guide gave the cooking a Bib Gourmand in 2026 for good quality, good value.
One Le Fooding lunch began with haricots verts in garlic fromage blanc with an egg yolk. The main was trout from La Truite de la Vernaison, its skin crisp under a fig oil glaze, served with a chard leaf cigar stuffed with Camargue rice.
The dining room has parquet floors and wood panelling, and in warm weather meals move to the flower garden. Three guest rooms sit upstairs, priced from 75 € to 105 €, and can be booked room only, with breakfast, or on a half-board basis.
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good quality, good value cooking
So, it may have taken us a while to find this café off the beaten track in the Vercors, on the border of the Drôme and Isère regions. The same one that knocked ex-audiovisual specialists Valentine Mollero and Thomas Lecluse for six, back in 2021, which they swiftly brought up to standard, with an accent on zero-kilometer sourcing. That lunchtime, we left the parquet-floored, wood-paneled dining room to enjoy the chef’s menu in the pretty flower garden: super fresh haricots verts swaddled in a creamy garlic fromage blanc with an egg yolk; sublime trout fillet (from La Truite de la Vernaison) with skin that couldn’t be more crunchy, all glossy with fig oil and served with a stunning chard leaf cigar stuffed with Camargue rice, rhubarb, thinly sliced fig and chard stalk; and to finish, greengages and plums atop a rosemary shortbread with shiso plum syrup. And if you don’t have the strength to get back on the road, head on up to one of three guest room upstairs. // Adrien Nouviaire
So, it may have taken us a while to find this café off the beaten track in the Vercors, on the border of the Drôme and Isère regions. The same one that knocked ex-audiovisual specialists Valentine Mollero and Thomas Lecluse for six, back in 2021, which they swiftly brought up to standard, with an accent on zero-kilometer sourcing. That lunchtime, we left the parquet-floored, wood-paneled dining room to enjoy the chef’s menu in the pretty flower garden: super fresh haricots verts swaddled in a creamy garlic fromage blanc with an egg yolk; sublime trout fillet (from La Truite de la Vernaison) with skin that couldn’t be more crunchy, all glossy with fig oil and served with a stunning chard leaf cigar stuffed with Camargue rice, rhubarb, thinly sliced fig and chard stalk; and to finish, greengages and plums atop a rosemary shortbread with shiso plum syrup. And if you don’t have the strength to get back on the road, head on up to one of three guest room upstairs. // Adrien Nouviaire
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