Welcome to Cuistot

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Cuistot is a beautiful Restaurant with excellent French cuisine. Chef-Owner Bernard Dervieux. 
Award winning wine list with moderate prices. Outdoor Dining.
Located near Palm Springs, 2 hours from Los Angeles and San Diego.

Reservations

We are Closed for Vacation
Reopening in October 

Business Hours

Happy Hour Bar Menu

Monday - Saturday 4 - 6 pm
Dinner
Monday to Saturday from 5 pm

We are closed on Sundays

American Express Accepted

Menus

Wine & Spirits

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The Wine List is updated frequently;
however, selections, vintages and/or prices
are subject to change at any time.

 For Spirits Click Here

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Wine Dinners

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Please check back often
This page gets updated frequently 


Private Dining

Cuistot is the Perfect Venue
for Private Parties,
Meetings and Events

From small, intimate Gatherings to large
Receptions and Dinners for up to 320 Guests.

Please contact Michael Shimer
for details or to book your event.
760.340.1000
michael@cuistotrestaurant.com


Private Event Menus

You can also customize your Menu by including items
from our Regular Dinner Menu.

Rooms
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About Chef / Owner Bernard Dervieux

Bernard Dervieux

Bernard was born in Condrieu, France in 1953. His family operated a farm and this is where Bernard gained his appreciation for fresh, tasteful food. His father wanted him to pick up a trade, so at age 13, he became an apprentice charcutier and worked in Vienne until 1972. He worked under the direction of Chef Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France from 1972 to 1974 as a cuisinier and with Roger Verge in Le Moulin de Mougin. Bernard was sent by Paul Bocuse to the United States in 1974 to work at Le Francais in Wheeling, Illinois as a saucier/sous chef under the supervision of Jean Bachet. He then worked at the Pump Room in Chicago, Illinois from 1978 until 1980 as Executive Chef.

Bernard was hired in 1980 at the Beverly Hills Hotel at the recommendation of Wolfgang Puck. He was Executive Chef at the hotel until 1986. After leaving the Beverly Hills Hotel, Bernard went to the Grand Champions Resort in Indians Wells and also to Aspen, Colorado serving as Executive Chef until opening Cuistot in 1987.

When you have a thriving restaurant, widely regarded as one of the best, even perhaps the best in the desert, why on earth would you want to move? A Chef’s life is stressful enough! To take on the extra challenge of moving everything from a well-established location to a totally new venue seems like a choice of a workaholic run amok. But the opportunity to purchase the land at the intersection of two of the most traveled and renowned thoroughfares in the desert only presents itself once in a lifetime. So in 2003 Bernard and his wife Susan broke ground on their new location. The building incorporates a rustic French farmhouse theme conceived by the Dervieuxs and executed by Design Development in Agoura Hills, CA.

Spacious dining areas are separated into four major rooms to accommodate up to 290 diners, including 80 on the heated, outdoor terrace. For private parties there is a comfortable Wine Room which seats up to 40. The largest dining room features a giant fireplace reminiscent of the one in Dervieux’s childhood home near Lyon, France. Bernard’s Room overlooks the gleaming exposition kitchen for those wishing to experience the creative energy of the Chef and his staff in action.

Contact

Cuistot Restaurant

72-595 El Paseo
Palm Desert, CA 92260

760.340.1000

GPS Address: 72597 El Paseo
Palm Desert, CA 92260

Note: With some GPS devices our proper address
does not work well.
Please use the above "GPS Address" when using GPS.

760-340-1000

BERNARD DERVIEUX
Chef Propriétaire

MICHAEL SHIMER
General Manager
Sales and Marketing

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