In this 1930s Basque hotel nestled in a pine forest and redesigned by Philippe Starck, Le Skiff Club restaurant is a veritable haven with its cosy little dining area decorated in the style of a yacht club. Stéphane Carrade is a talented and skilled captain, cooking up delightful "progressive terroir" cuisine, in a superb celebration of the Aquitaine region of southwest France. This is a chef who combines generosity and finesse in dishes such as courgette flower stuffed with duxelles and spider crab, green crab soup with pain d'épice, and blue lobster grilled over wood from Bordeaux wine barriques, aubergine with chanterelles and bone marrow, Ha(a)ïtza sauce. Finally, Alexandre Blay's desserts keep all the promises this restaurant makes: his work with chocolate – cf. his confit of barbecued prunes and Biscarrosse black garlic with port, warm ganache and ice cream with hints of liquorice – combines finesse and originality.