Magic
There are places in the world that are like little sanctuaries of passion, love, art and magic. Prevot is one of those places.
You do not go to Prevot to eat the latest fad in foamy, molecular, what-nots. You go to Prevot to eat food made with love. Love for the ingredients, and love for the process, and a love for making people happy.
You go because Prevot has been making wonderful food (and illustrations & paintings) for over thirty years. He came to fame (and his Michelin star) by being the first chef to discover new ways to bring the wonderful melons of Cavaillon to life, with his piece de resistance his homard bisque served inside a cooked melon. Before Prevot, nobody had ever cooked a melon as part of a professionally served meal. It is a combination that on the surface seems improbable, and the first time I went to Prevot I approached his "melon" degustation menu with trepidation, but once you've had it you realize what a genius he is. True it took him many years to work out the techniques and exact combinations of spices and flavors that allow his marriages of melons and other ingredients to work, but work they do.
The restaurant of course serves many other exquisite dishes beyond his melon inspired dishes, but if you are going to have only one opportunity to eat at Prevot, and you are lucky enough to be there during the melon season, then the melon tasting menu is the one to choose.
The service is exquisite, as befits a 1-star Michelin restaurant that is probably not far from getting its second star.
I am honored that when I go Prevot comes out and gives us big smiles, embraces us, tells us stories, charms my lady, and this last time gave me a hug and said I looked like I could be his younger brother. This man has been working hard making magic for over 30 years yet is humble and still full of passion and life.
One day Prevot will retire and the restaurant will be no more, and a small pocket of magic will vanish from the city of Cavaillon. Don't wait until it's too late. Go see the magician and experience his art in his atelier, go to Prevot. read more