article_snippet: The restaurant (£50 a head, including wine) is open to non residents - and the food and service assuaged any lingering negativity about the indifference of the French to missing suitcases.
article_snippet: Things could only get better but we'd not expected fullblown rapture when we stopped off for dinner at Crillon le Brave, an exquisite collection of 16th and 17th century buildings which over the years has been turned into a hotel occupying a prime spot.
article_snippet: Frankly, dinner went straight into my top ten list.
article_snippet: I told my father-in-law that for the same price we could have a cocktail on the terrace of La Bastide de Gordes, the famous old hotel that tumbles down the rock face just off the main square.
article_snippet: we stayed on for a thrilling dinner, during which we learned that the hotel is about to close for a €16 million refurb (reopening June 17).