We hope that you will enjoy reading what the local media has had to say about the new Lemaire Restaurant. For those of you that may be first time visitors, you will see some references to how we've changed and it's all true. After more than twenty years, Lemaire closed on January 1, 2009 for a six-month renovation and emerged on July 8, 2009 as a completely new Lemaire. Our goal is to become Richmond's favorite restaurant for any occasion and yours!

The Richmond Magazine names Chef Bundy "Chef of the Year":

They also name Lemaire as one of the 25 Best Restaurants.

Click here to read the Richmond Magazine review.

Dana Craig of The Richmond Times Dispatch says:

"If two people could be drunk on culinary bliss, drunk we were."
"Watch out, metropolitan dining capitals to our north: Lemaire has put Richmond on the map."

Click here to read the Richmond Times Dispatch review.

Style Weekly's Don Baker says:

"Richmond's foremost formal dining experience has gone hip."
"Y'all, it's the real thing, and the greens are the best I can remember."

Click here to read the Style Weekly Review.

Emily C. Dooley of The Richmond Times Dispatch says:

"Esquire magazine yesterday named the new, revamped and more approachable Lemaire restaurant at The Jefferson Hotel as one of the best new restaurants of 2009."

Click here to read the Richmond Times Dispatch review.

John Mariani of Esquire Magazine says:

"Bundy is pouring everything he knows and loves into dishes like sweet-tangy fried green tomatoes showered with Gulf lump crabmeat, sherry vinegar and verbena - proof yet again that southern cooking long ago moved past Paula Deen's "Y'all want s'more gree-uts?"

Click here to read the Esquire Magazine review.

Richmond Magazine's Martin Gravely says:

"Lemaire's winning combination of pampering service, cosmopolitan atmosphere and consistently top-shelf fare is indeed hard to beat in our fair city"

Click here to read the Richmond Magazine review.