Maison Aubris — One menu, one table

Table d'Aubris

Name: Table d'Aubris
Address: Chemin des Vignes 1, Aubris 3320
Telephone: +44 20 7946 0139

Twenty-eight seats at one oak table. One menu, decided in the afternoon.

There is one table at Aubris. It is oak, it is nine metres long, and everybody staying in the house eats at it at eight o'clock. There is no à la carte, no second sitting and no choice of dish. This is the most divisive decision in the collection and the one we are least likely to change.

Perrine Gaudet writes the menu in the afternoon, after the deliveries, and it is posted in the courtyard at five. Four courses. If you have an allergy or something you genuinely will not eat, tell us when you book and we will cook for you specifically — but we need to know before the day, because there is no alternative kitchen running in parallel.

What it is like

Strangers sit next to each other. Some guests find this the best thing about Aubris and some find it the reason they will not return. We say so plainly at the point of booking rather than at the door, because being surprised by a communal table at eight in the evening is nobody's idea of hospitality.

Service

Dinner: 20:00, one sitting, daily
Menu: Four courses, €96. No choice
Wine: Estate and district, €60 with the menu
Booking: Residents only

In the kitchen

Perrine Gaudet

28 seats

The house

The smallest house in the collection. Eleven hectares of vines, a cellar cut into chalk, and a kitchen built around one long table.

Maison Aubris

On the menu

Three things the kitchen is known for

Menus change. These do not, or not much, and they are the dishes guests write to us about.

01
The bread, cut at the table
Baked in the courtyard bakehouse at four each afternoon and cut in front of you at eight.
02
Whatever the growers brought
Eleven growers within walking distance. The menu is a report on their week.
03
Cheese from the cellar door
Kept in the chalk at twelve degrees and brought up an hour before service, never earlier.

Elsewhere