A New Season Beckons

In early December 2022, Cheval Blanc Courchevel greeted a new winter season that, like preceding seasons, will be a calendar filled with adrenaline-inducing activities. The exclusive ski-in, ski-out 36-key property offers direct access to the world’s largest ski area, Les Trois Vallées. There is also superlative cuisine courtesy of a newly appointed executive chef, and opportunities to unwind from a busy year.

At the Cheval Blanc Spa by Guerlain, rare moments of pure sensorial relaxation can be availed through an exclusive treatment for Cheval Blanc Courchevel – ‘Rêve sous les étoiles’. It features a deeply relaxing massage session that releases tension from both face and body with the skills of the Spa Beauty Experts.

When it comes to gastronomy, Cheval Blanc Courchevel also recently announced that Executive Chef Anissa Boulesteix is joining Chef Yannick Alléno at Cheval Blanc Courchevel. “I chose her for her talent, her personality, and her character,” says Chef Alléno, whose restaurants around the world have earned a total 15 MICHELIN stars.

“I have absolute confidence in her. I want to help steer her toward her own style of excellence and leave her completely free – ideal conditions for joining Cheval Blanc, where everything is based on creativity and the pursuit of excellence. Anissa learned cuisine by cooking with others; now she will define her own.”

On the cards: a menu by Chef Boulesteix centring on the element of fire – from the grill to the brasero on the terrace. Diners can expect soon-to-be-classic dishes such as lamb shoulder confit, sole meunière, and pot-au-feu with ingredients sourced locally and from around the world, such as farm-fresh eggs, trout fished in nearby lakes, blue lobster, pasta, milk-fed veal, lamb from Savoie, wagyu, along with chocolate and seasonal fruit.

“At the centre of this project is the notion of transmission, which I loved right away,” Boulesteix says of her journey ahead at Cheval Blanc Courchevel. “Being able to offer the best I can give and surpassing it in a never-ending quest did the rest.”