Chez Bastianin Plan-de-la-Tour · Saint-Tropez

The kitchen garden

From the garden to the plate.

A few minutes from the restaurant, in the commune of Plan-de-la-Tour, our kitchen garden. Not a marketing alibi — a real garden that dictates part of the menu.

Garden courgettes — Chez Bastianin
Garden courgettes
The garden in high summer — Chez Bastianin
The garden in high summer
Today's harvest — Chez Bastianin
Today's harvest
Sweet chilli peppers — Chez Bastianin
Sweet chilli peppers

Why grow it ourselves

Three good reasons.

Taste, first. A tomato picked in the morning for the evening service has nothing in common with a tomato that spent four days travelling in a crate. The sugar is still there. The acidity, balanced. The texture, alive.

The season, next. The garden refuses to indulge whims. No asparagus in December, no squash in May. The menu follows the seasons — and it's the garden that decides.

Honesty, finally. A vegetable you've watched grow is a vegetable you're not afraid to serve as it is — simply grilled in the Josper, with a little oil and a pinch of fleur de sel. The simplest cooking is often the hardest.

Through the year

Seasonal vegetables.

The garden gives what the season allows — sun-drenched vegetables in summer, hardy keepers in winter, and the aromatic herbs of the south all year round: rosemary, thyme, sage, basil. What is picked ends up on the menu, subject to availability.

This season's harvest

Discover it on the menu.

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