Café Lavinal Cafes, Pubs, Coffee Shops in Pauillac

Opening hours

Closed

  • Monday 12:00 am - 01:45 pm 07:00 pm - 08:45 pm
  • Tuesday 12:00 am - 01:45 pm 07:00 pm - 08:45 pm
  • Wednesday 12:00 am - 01:45 pm 07:00 pm - 08:45 pm
  • Thursday 12:00 am - 01:45 pm 07:00 pm - 08:45 pm
  • Friday 12:00 am - 01:45 pm 07:00 pm - 08:45 pm
  • Saturday 12:00 am - 01:45 pm 07:00 pm - 08:45 pm
  • Sunday Closed

Opens at 12:00 am

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Useful information

Location : In the countryside

Province : Médoc and Haut Médoc

Services

  • Credit card accepted
  • Groups
  • Open all year round
  • Parking
  • English
    • Café Lavinal, which takes its name from Berthe Lavinal, grandmother of Jean-Michel Cazes, retains the spirit of the 1930s. Its brasserie decor makes it the ideal place to chat over a glass of wine and share generous family cuisine. Gabriel Gette and his team create a menu in keeping with the seasons and products from the Médoc region.

      To accompany this gourmet getaway, the Café Lavinal offers a rich wine list with many regional and international references. On the small cobbled square, the sunny terrace of this real living space enjoys one of the prettiest views of the restored village of Bages over the new cellar of Lynch Bages Castle, which favors light and transparency.

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Traveller Reviews Café Lavinal

4.3 sur 5 945 reviews

  • Kim

    5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Kim on 01/08/2023

    We’ve been to Cafe Lavinal from a recommendation of our host of La Maison Reverdi. We both had the three course Lavinal Set-up Menu, where you can choose between two different starters, mains and desserts. Each individual dish was super delicious and the portions were bigger than we expected. The price was extremely fair, service excellent and the wine was as good as the rest of our experience.

  • Keith Kelley

    5 sur 5 Reviews posted by Keith Kelley on 27/10/2023

    Adding to my wine education brought me to Bordeaux and dropped me, among other places, at Chateau Lynch-Bages for a spectacular tour of their new production facilities, a tasting and lots of historical details. Turns out that the current owners of the winery and vineyards surrounding it unknowingly also received the "town" immediately adjacent to the winery with their acquisition. Upon discovery, the family renovated or rebuilt all of the structures in the tiny town just steps from the winery to complement the business and provide housing and services for the employees who were willing to live within a two minute walk of their employer. Café Lavinal is THE restaurant in town. Make no mistake, this is not an afterthought to the wine operation. It is an upscale establishment brimming with the ambiance and atmosphere that befits the marriage of the region's passion for both wine and food. We took lunch al fresco on a warm, sunny afternoon under the shade of patio umbrellas. Ordering from the Lavinal lunch menu provided sophisticated three-course options that were as artfully prepared and presented as they were creative and satisfying. Not unexpectedly, ingredient quality reigns supreme and deft hands in the kitchen transformed them into delicacies that were worth sharing with everyone in our party, making sure our choices covered the widest range of flavors and textures possible. Service was impeccable and appropriately timely, keenly aware of our pace and responsive when we were ready to depart. I selected a very approachable white Bordeaux from the Chateau's second label and was reminded that it's not at all hard to pair food and wine in the region. Reservations are a must as it's literally the only restaurant in town. But it's worth planning. Definitely a surprise find.

  • Andy Miles

    4 sur 5 Reviews posted by Andy Miles on 31/08/2023

    We were book in here as part of a wine tour. Our menu was set and not necessarily what I would have chosen. However the food was delicious, cooked well, although I do not like fish so rare, everything else including the wines were lovely. The staff very efficient and polite. Thank you.

Traveller Reviews Café Lavinal

4.0 sur 5 835 reviews

Rating summary

  • Food 4.0 / 5
  • Atmosphere 4.0 / 5
  • Service 3.5 / 5
  • Value 3.5 / 5
  • "Disappointing experience"

    2 / 5 Reviews posted by Richard W (Melbourne, Australia) on 10/11/2023

    Booked an evening meal at this Bistro on the recommendation of the place where we stayed but found the experience extremely disappointing. The vibes were not good from the start when the clipboard...

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  • "Disappointing"

    3 / 5 Reviews posted by TheOFins (Denver, Colorado) on 02/11/2023

    Cafe Lavinal was a disappointment. I had a small pumpkin with pork inside. It arrived burned on the outside; literally black in spots. I assumed this would not affect the flavor of the inside...

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  • "Poor service, disengaged female server. Beautiful restaurant."

    2 / 5 Reviews posted by Travel-Belfast (Belfast, Maine) on 26/10/2023

    The young female server was not overly pleasant and frankly disengaged. I had to ask twice for bread even though we had a cheese platter. I love andouillette sausage but the ones served that night...

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Café Lavinal

Address

Passage du Desquet
33250 Pauillac

Contacts

Phone : 05 57 75 00 09

GPS coordinates

45° 11'25.91"N, 0° 45'19.12"W

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