Welcome to the forest
Push open the door of Ursus and you discover a world apart. An unexpected forest, just a few tables, and the promise of a singular experience imagined by chef Clément Bouvier.
Here, dinner unfolds like a walk. You move from surprise to surprise, carried by a cuisine of precision and emotion, inspired by the mountains and the Savoyard terroir, but also by the stories, the produce and the people who bring it to life.
Another way to taste the mountains.
Walking. Observing. Foraging. Tasting. It is often outdoors that the chef's first inspirations are born. Along his walks he discovers, encounters, experiments… before it all finds new expression on the plate.
From foraging to the plate
A cuisine of precision and emotion
Every product has a reason for being there. The chef works with producers and artisans with whom real relationships have been woven over time. He favours local produce, respects its seasonality and celebrates the Savoyard terroir and the know-how of those who bring it to life.
From this living matter comes a personal cuisine, precise and instinctive. Generous, indulgent plates, where apparent simplicity gives way to a true work of balance, flavour and emotion.
Each new plate is a surprise, a new way of telling the story of a product, an encounter, a memory or a piece of this land.
Discover the menuBetween character and sensitivity
Having grown up at the heart of the world of gastronomy, alongside his grandparents and his parents, Clément Bouvier gathered experience abroad and with great names of the kitchen. In 2017, back in Tignes, he fulfilled his dream by opening his own restaurant at the heart of the family project: Ursus was born.
His cuisine is like him: instinctive yet precise, direct yet sensitive, deeply rooted in what surrounds him while never ceasing to look further. He loves to try, to divert, to combine, to tell.
Since 2019, the chef and his team have held a Michelin star.
Whole-hearted, passionate, sensitive. A chef deeply rooted in his mountains and his land.
The forest in the dining room
“I love wandering the forest to do my foraging. It was during one of those walks that this slightly mad project came to me… That of sharing this pleasure. And since I could not take everyone with me on my walks, I decided to bring the forest to them, into the dining room!”
Clément Bouvier
This slightly mad desire gave birth to an extraordinary setting: nearly 380 tree trunks, a few tables slipped between the clearings, soft light and a ceiling that evokes the treetops. A forest imagined not as a mere backdrop, but as the extension of the Chef's world.
Here the forest invites itself all the way to the plate
URSUS
[ur.sus] n. m. · from the Latin ursus, “bear”
Ursus arctos — the brown bear, the last bear species still living in the wild in Savoie.
Here, one experience often leads to another.
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Fresh bread, a viennoiserie, a sweet or savoury craving… all homemade, to savour at any hour of the day.
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Address
Restaurant Ursus On the ground floor of Hôtel Les Suites 39, rue du Val Claret 73320 Tignes
Directions & accessOpening
Winter season 2026-2027 From December 5 to May 1. Dinner only. Weekly closing: every Sunday.
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An intimate experience at the heart of a forest, where Clément Bouvier's cuisine tells the story of the mountains through the seasons.
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