Vernon: La Capucine (August 2017)



La Capucine Botanic Café – Dine Outdoors in the Garden

My spouse and I and our tour guide and driver dined at La Capucine Botanic Café for lunch on a Tuesday afternoon in late August 2017. The restaurant is open daily for breakfast and lunch, with additional hours for Saturday dinner. We noticed this restaurant as we strolled the main street between Monet’s gardens and the village church. 

The main structure at La Capucine offers a vaulted beamed ceiling, with wooden tables and chairs. Some original exposed brick and stonework provide interesting architectural elements. The side of the main dining area can be opened to adjoin an additional glass-enclosed atrium space. You can also dine outdoors on an attached raised deck, or at small tables shaded by umbrellas and spread throughout the garden. The expansive foliage-filled La Capucine property also offers small ponds, a greenhouse, and a boutique, where you can purchase décor and garden items to take home.
La Capucine offers cafeteria-style dining, whereby you pass through a line, view and select your food, pay for your meal, then carry it to a table to eat. The café offers simple, reasonably priced local food that provides a good value for your money. For example, we each purchased a meal that included a small green side salad, a slice of quiche (or a small sandwich or wrap), and a non-alcoholic beverage (water or soda) for 8 Euros. You could upgrade your beverage to beer or wine for an additional 1.5 Euros. Credit cards are accepted. Our French guide, who had never dined there before, proclaimed the quiche very good.

We enjoyed our al fresco lunch at La Capucine Botanic Café.







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