Logis de la Cadène

We reserved the cave downstairs for the evening. It was a magical setting for my daughters birthday celebration. Alexandre was outstanding since our first email contact He spent the evening with us and did a phenomenal job of explaining what was being served and where it was from.. The restaurant created a wonderful menu for us which included wine pairing. After dinner was over we went further down into the cave and saw their wine collection. To all the staff thank you for a great evening. You made our daughter feel very special.

Our recent dining experience at the restaurant included a food tasting that was rated four stars. The service was exceptional, with detailed explanations provided for each dish. The initial four courses were particularly impressive, showcasing both excellent presentation and flavor. However, the two main courses were excessively salty, and the dessert was overly sweet, making it difficult to finish. Given the restaurant's Michelin rating, this was a disappointing outcome.

Well what can I say……couldn’t find it to start with. Drove around a lot! Also Split over two properties, not ideal. Breakfast was a walk to main building, wasn’t informed of that! Take a mini as no where to park with in 200 meters, therefore dragging suitcases through the streets. Good fun I suppose! Rooms in house away from hotel were creaky and noisy , get the top floor as we had no quiet rest. In fact we just left and found a better hotel. Needed to get in character I suppose, we were a bit disappointed, pictures looked much better. St emillion was amazing, hotel wasn’t.

An unforgettable dining experience at Logis de la Cadène! Every dish was a masterpiece, full of creativity and flavor, with generous compliments from the chef. The wine list is incredible — as vast and rich as Tolstoy’s War & Peace! After dinner, we even had the chance to step into the kitchen and meet the chef Thibaut Gamba personally — such a special touch. Highly recommended for true food and wine lovers!

This hotel is okay but could be so much better. ||Room |- Does not have block-blinds, or a fridge|- The beds are quite small, double I think|- The Air-conditioning is very average. We had the temperature set as low as possible and it was still quite warm.|- Other things like cupboard doors that don’t close properly so keep swinging open and you have to secure them with a tiny key that’s really annoying and drops out so you have to search for it… dodgy door knobs etc. Our room was ‘1985’, I think they’re all a little different.||Breakfast - There is a very basic buffet. On our first day we were offered coffee and sometime later eggs from the kitchen. On the second day it may just have been an off day for the staff but having been there for 30mins we asked for eggs as it was near 10am when breakfast finishes. The waiter returned to tell us the kitchen had finished…. This was 10.01am. Not a big deal but really come on! There were 4 tables the entire time we were at breakfast so really not busy. Things that you expect are pretty basic like water being brought to the table doesn’t just happen, you have to ask for it.||In summary the staff were mainly helpful and friendly, but the hotel, well it’s fine but with some small tweaks could be quite good. And in this price range it should better.

We stayed at the hotel and dined at the restaurant in July 2024 and had a ten out of ten experience - nothing to complain about. So we went out of our way to visit again in July 2025 to dine at the restaurant. Sadly this proved to be an expensive mistake. We dined at the restaurant on the 18th of July 2025. Some of the dishes from the menu were great (notably the mushroom tart and the souffle). Two of the dishes however were terrible. The Langoustine dish was horrible - super mushy. We gave feedback and the chef had another attempt - slightly better but still awful. Having worked in Norway - he should know better! The main course was turbot - this got served with a sorbet on the side and the chef recommended to mix the sorbet with the fish. The resulting mixture had good taste, but the cold temperature gave the effect of fish ice cream - nasty! The wine package was super expensive - 450 euros for 2x people and yielded 5x very small glasses of wine. Poor value indeed. We also had to request that the staff clean our table after they ignored the olive oil and water stains and bread crumbs across multiple courses. The result - a bill for 877 euros for two people which I rounded up to 1,000 euros to give| service for the team. Honestly - I could dine in many other restaurants for 300 euros and have a much better dining experience. I suggest extreme caution based on our latest visit. Next time we will try somewhere else! I'm pretty sure that this business will ultimately fail if they keep delivering the experience that we received tonight. Michelin star prices but major failure to deliver on food quality and service.

We had high expectations for this restaurant in the historic centre of St Emilion, however we were disappointed. We were given a table Outdoors, as there was a large group inside which took all the tables. There was however a second, empty dining room, but we were told we couldn’t use it. Our table was too big for 6 people, it made it difficult to all talk to each other. It was super hot under the cheap seats pastiche sheet and there were some insects. No fan was available. The table had no tablecloth and the decor was awful, it certainly did not represent fine dining. The food was very hit and miss: for example the goat cheese and balsamic vinegar dessert was awful, nobody ate it. Definitely not worth the money. There are better restaurants in the area.

I find the negative reviews laughable. This is an outstanding restaurant, and I say this as someone who regularly goes to two- and three-star restaurants in Barcelona. We entered almost casually with our kids (3 and 6) while visiting St. Emilion, well aware of how challenging this could be for the staff; they surprised us with an impromptu menu for our children, and a waiter even brought colors and paper to entertain them. We tried the Market Menu with wine pairing (we didn't want to test our kids' patience with a three-hour course), and found the quality to be, simply put, sublime. Flavors were stark and recognizable (especially the mushroom entree), the wine a perfect match. Charming location and highly professional service. A star well deserved indeed.

My husband and I stayed at the Logis de la Cadene hotel (*excellent*) and scheduled a dinner here for our second night in St. Emilion. This was one part of our overall honeymoon, and we had heard excellent things about the restaurant. Of all the fancy/Michelin restaurants that we visited during our trip to France, I felt like this menu was the best. We did the 7-course menu, and every item was astounding. The overall meal was filling, but not pants-busting. The service was very earnest and attentive. As we do not speak French, the servers were able to tell us what we were eating, but not go into extreme detail--just a note if that is an issue for you. We had no problem understanding what we were eating. I knocked the rating by a star for one reason alone: the pushy sommelier. I understand that being a sommelier/lead server is a big job. I also understand that sommeliers can have strong opinions on which wines we should be drinking to best accompany the meal. When we were first seated, he asked if we wanted to start with a glass of champagne. We said yes, but I joked to my husband that we might regret it. We did -- he didn't provide the cost to us (or any of the other tables around us), and it was 30 Euro PER GLASS. An addition of 60 Euro to the final bill was kind of a bummer, even though I mentally prepared for it. Is it my fault for not asking the cost? Maybe. But I think an offer like that as folks are getting seated makes it sound like it is on the house. 30 Euro/glass should be enough for the sommelier to indicate what the cost might be before it is served. Also, since we had visited a couple other expensive restaurants earlier in our trip, we had decided ahead of time not to do the wine pairings for this meal, and instead order a less expensive bottle of wine to share. The sommelier turned his nose up at all of our questions about wines under 100 Euro and at one point said to us that "it would be more fun to try wines from this section" (which was a 200 Euro price point). It made me upset that there were affordable wines in the wine book and he made us feel bad for ordering any of them. If this is a Michelin-star restaurant, then all the wines in the wine book should be good. Why else would they be stored/served onsite? So, we loved our stay at the hotel. We thought the overall staff was excellent (especially the kind woman who greeted us each morning at breakfast). But I would argue that a single employee can make or break the dining experience, and we were disappointed with our interaction with the sommelier.

Amazing food including a superb vegetarian menu on request, excellent service and a wine list worthy of a mention. One of the best meals ever in France and should earn this restaurant two stars or more :-) excellent friendly staff and sommelier and everything done with a smile.

Delicious and absolutely worth a stop. Call ahead to reserve a spot as many were turned away when they stopped by, hopeful to walk in. Cheese plate absolutely delicious and you can't go wrong with any of the prix fixe menus. Warning: Expect this lunch to take at least 1.5-2 hours.

Logis de la Cadene is tucked away in the heart of one of the oldest wine regions in France. It exceeded our one michelin star expectations for a vegetarian lunch. The chef assembled an extraordinary concoction of vegetables - tomatoes cooked 3 ways, artichokes and courgettes with a light citrus dressing and to start and finish several amuse-bouche. The waitress served a perfect plate of soft cheeses from a cheese trolley that tasted as good as it looked. Our 3 hour lunch was complemented by an encyclopeadic wine list with a knowledgeable sommelier. La Cadene is the quintessential French experience and all that you imagine and more from haute cuisine.

Warm hospitality and delicious grilled food are the hallmarks of this restaurant. They are located half way down a really steep cobblestone street in the middle of the city. They've got a really nice vine covered outdoor patio big with a number of tables for a great evening meal on a warm night. Many of their menu items are from the grill and while they aren't truly French, quite tasty and well presented. We tried the beef fillet (very good) and the grilled chicken skewer (delightful spices) and of course a half bottle of a local wine (yum!) followed by profiteroles (definitely not French but delicious) There were only two servers but they worked hard and did a good job keeping everyone supplied and happy. All in all a pleasant meal in a great setting.

This was a really great place for lunch. It didn't seem nearly as touristy as the other restaurants in St. Emilion, though we were only there for one meal so I don't have much to compare it to. To start, they provided a lovely amuse-bouche that was some kind of cold cucumber soup. A very nice touch. I ordered the fixed price menu which came with an appetizer, an entree, and a dessert. I ordered the goat cheese salad as my appetizer. It was perfect - plenty of high quality goat cheese, a nice simple salad underneath, and a pleasant dressing. My sister ordered this as her whole meal; it's not nearly enough for a 6'3 guy like me, but she claimed she was satisfied. For my main course, I ordered the "salmon wrapped in vine leaves." The title is undoubtedly gimmicky, intended to lure in all of the tourists who are in St. Emilion only for the wine (guilty!) but it was still tasty. The sauce was mostly butter, so how can you go wrong - taste-wise, anyway? I wanted a simple dessert to save room for one of the bakeries elsewhere in the town, so I just ordered the sorbet. I was pleasantly surprised that even the sorbet was unique, quite possibly homemade. It came with two flavors, I believe they were raspberry and passionfruit, as well as some whipped cream. A great end to a great meal.

Wow. Just Wow. IMMENSE Value for the price. Almost every dish was perfect minus the meaty ones. They truly know how to make the flavors shine and even reinvented ways to eat RADISHES. A must if you're in St. Emilion and getting the "Inspiration Menu" was worth every penny. Two hours was nice pacing as well. The service looks so prestige! I just wish their explanations could be a bit better.