Chef Le Stanc will be at Provence Mediterranean Grill on November 12, 2007 to prepare a special dinner, call 604-222-1980 now to book your seat to experience this once in a lifetime opportunity as space for this special event is limited.

Being immensely popular, and having no telephone, La Merenda, the restaurant run by former head chef of the Negresco's famed Chantecler of which it is the absolute antithesis: the menu chalked on a blackboard, paper cloths, back-breaking wooden stools to sit on and an open kitchen small enough to fit inside a camper van. The decor is rustic and the 'peasant' food shrieks authenticity: daube (a beef and vegetable stew) and stockfish are the specialities. Start with coppa, an Italian ham sliced paper-thin and intensely flavoured, or poutine, tiny fish found only between Antibes and Menton. The 'poor food' pudding - melting pastry filled with spinach, apple, pine nuts and raisins - is astonishingly good.