Flaine Bars & Restaurants
Flaine firmly concentrates on families and adults learning to ski including a significant proportion of novices. While less experience on snow is no limiting factor for apres ski, the fact that there are so many families and first time skiers and boarders means there are relatively few party goers old enough, or fit enough, to push the limits late into the night.Flaine Apres Ski Bars
Flaine apres-ski and nightlife is severely limited. La Cascades at the foot of the pistes and the Brit hangout Le White Pub are about as lively as it gets after skiing. Later on the Flying Dutchman gets going and their outdoor BBQ go down well.
Much has been made of Le Perdrix Noire and although it has decent food and good beers it is hardly a raucous night out.
Flaine does have a nightclub in the Galerie Marchande Forum. It is open late and you can dance in it, but that’s really as good as it gets.
Flaine Restaurants
Flaine has so many residence apartments and so few hotels that it is a wonder there are not more restaurants in the resort. Flaine is a dining desert, which is why the half-decent restaurants do so well. The resort is crying out for a top-class place to eat
Most of the restaurants in Flaine have been mentioned in our mountain restaurants section, but at night there are three more restaurants in the village that claim to be the best. To be fair, all are good value and prepare good food but none of them are world beaters.
Chalet La Cascade
Chalet La Cascade is about as cosy and intimate as Flaine can get. The restaurant is located at the foot of the pistes, it has a roaring log fire and if you want to book it you can be transported there and back by skidoo. The menu is small, but selective and although you can get fondue all over the Alps, it is pretty good here boasting three cheeses and also comes with sausages.
Chalet La Cascade
Tel: +33 4 50 90 87 66
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.lacascade-flaine.fr
La Perdrix Noir
The Perdrix is run by an English couple. If you didn’t know you could probably tell from the interior decoration and the beers on tap. The restaurant suffers for being placed in Flaine Foret shopping arcade but appearances can be deceptive though, as the food is very French and very good. The chef has a good fish and seafood supplier but for us the spit-roasted half a duckling was the best thing we ate in resort. The set menus are very reasonably priced, also. Tel: +33 4 50 90 81 81
La Perdrix Noire
Galerie Marchande
Tel: +33 4 50 90 81 81
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.Laperdrixnoire.com
La Ferme du Sartot
The most marvellous part to eating in La Ferme du Sartot is that it is the polar opposite to what Flaine stands for. Rustic and small, the restaurant must be booked in advance purely because in a delightfully unplanned way there simply is no menu. You call up discus with the chef what you would like to eat, and probably more importantly what he can get, and then turn up to his little chalet replete with open log fire. We’d say the food at Le Perdrix just shades it, but the setting and experience at La Ferme du Sartot is infinitely superior. Tel: +33 6 75 28 95 00
La Ferme du Sartot
Le Cret des Neiges
Tel: +33 6 75 28 95 00
Web: www.sartot-flaine.info