The restaurant’s “orangerie” dining room. AURELIO RODRIGUEZ
Oscar, the second Giverny restaurant from Michelin-starred chef David Gallienne (Le Jardin des Plumes), has been welcoming both local and international visitors seeking lunch in this Normandy village since March 2024. Set beside the Museum of Impressionism and steps from Claude Monet’s House, the restaurant offers an oasis away from the site’s tourist bustle. Diners settle onto a shaded, well-spaced terrace, a welcome respite after shuffling through the painter’s home alongside crowds more focused on snapping selfies than admiring the cascade of reproductions covering every inch of wall space.
The most spectacular room in Monet’s house is the kitchen – a chapel of blue-tinged azulejos tiles surrounding a stove that looks out onto the garden. Monet was clearly a bon vivant, the inventor of the “œufs Orsini” and a fan of sauced fish recipes he compiled in a notebook still available today. At lunchtime, Oscar naturally stands out as an escape from the local ham-and-butter sandwiches sold for €9.
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