"There are two very different dining spaces at Le Patton, a French restaurant in a beautiful early 19th-century house. The formal dining room is lit by chandeliers with velvet chairs and damask curtains and tablecloths, but we like the back solarium that overlooks the garden and gets flooded with light, even on grim winter days. The food is French, but leans Italian—think roasted lamb with polenta, gnocchi with crushed tomatoes, and veal sweetbreads with black rice in a foie gras sauce. It’s great for a meat-heavy meal after visiting the Chateau and rowing a boat around its lake, or working up an appetite tromping through the lush forest of Fontainebleau." - Sophie Friedman
