Le Valentino

Top choice in Troyes


What could be more romantic than a table à deux in the cobbled courtyard of this rose-hued, 17th-century modern French restaurant? The chef juggles flavours skilfully in market-driven specialities such as roasted monkfish with pak choi, ginger and pink pepper, and quail with red grape jelly and pear chutney.


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Nearby Troyes attractions

1. 16th-Century Troyes

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Half-timbered houses – some with lurching walls and floors that aren’t quite level – line many streets in the old city, rebuilt after a devastating fire…

2. Ruelle des Chats

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Off rue Champeaux (between Nos 30 and 32), a stroll along tiny ruelle des Chats (Alley of the Cats), as dark and narrow as it was four centuries ago – the…

3. Église Ste-Madeleine

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Troyes’ oldest and most interesting neighbourhood church has an early Gothic nave and transept and a Renaissance-style choir and tower. The highlights…

4. WWII Memorial

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This memorial pays homage to those who fought and died in WWII.

5. Basilique St-Urbain

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Begun in 1262 by the Troyes-born Pope Urban IV, whose father’s shoemaker shop once stood on this spot, this church is exuberantly Gothic both inside and…

7. Église St-Pantaléon

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Faded with age and all the more enigmatic for it, this Renaissance-style, cruciform church, with its barrel-vaulted wood ceiling, is a great place to see…

8. Hôtel de Vauluisant

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This haunted-looking, Renaissance-style mansion shelters a twinset of unique museums. The Musée de l’Art Champenois is a repository for the evocative…