La Côte Saint-Jacques on the banks of the Yonne is quite simply the finest spa hotel in Burgundy. It offers gourmet cuisine that has been renowned for decades, with Jean-Michel Lorain’s 2-Michelin-star restaurant. You’ll discover generous creations (cabbage stuffed with truffles, filet of pollack with royal osciètre caviar, poularde steamed in champagne served whole) and an avant-garde cellar featuring, among others, a rare selection of natural, organic and biodynamic wines.
La Côte Saint-Jacques also boasts an extraordinary spa, bathed in natural light, with a large heated indoor pool, solarium and intimate Jacuzzi overlooking the river.
Housed in a number of townhouses, the hotel offers a variety of comfortable rooms with balconies overlooking the river and garden. If you manage to leave this cocoon, don’t miss the nearby Burgundy village of Vézelay, perched on a hill, and its Romanesque abbey church, starting point of the Chemins de Compostelle.