Au Vieux Manoir

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Au Vieux Manoir, Monthey: Classic French Cooking at Route de Choëx

Au Vieux Manoir is a French restaurant at Route de Choëx 155 in Monthey, where chef Jérémy Voisin holds a Gault&Millau score of 15 for 2026. The house also runs as a small hotel, with a terrace looking out over the town.

Jérémy Voisin's kitchen

Voisin has run the house with his team since January 2017. He trained at a four-star hotel, then spent three years at the Auberge de Vouvry under chef Martial Braendle. His classic French cooking leans on regional suppliers and fresh seasonal produce, and the menu changes often. The Michelin guide lists the restaurant as recommended for 2026.

Dishes from the winter menu

A carrot infusion and a spiced carrot bonbon opened one winter meal. Parsnips followed in three forms (roasted, as a mousse, as chips) with a Guinness sauce. Gnocchi came with Vacherin Mont-d'Or mousse and a sauce of fir shoots. Perch from Raron and cardoon from Geneva were wrapped in Thurgau ham and served with an espuma, while Thurgau apple pork arrived with parsley jus and a cider espuma. Dessert paired pineapple, tonka bean and white chocolate. The list of open wines by the glass is a strong one.

A house with a past

Dr Victor Guénebaud, a Parisian physician, built the house in 1882 and called the estate La Fin du Bruit. He hosted friends here, among them Gustave Eiffel and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, who designed the Statue of Liberty. Guests stayed in five rooms, and a Bartholdi letter from 1900 praises the landscape of Choëx. Today the Belle Époque character still shapes the dining room, which feels calm and a little unusual for a restaurant of this standard.