Grenoble · France · Ordinary hotel, well placed
Staying in Grenoble
A city of a hundred and fifty thousand people wedged between three mountain ranges, with a rabbinate, a mikvah and a few kosher places — the only town in the French Alps where all of that is true at once.
No kosher kitchen — listed for where it stands, not for its food.
- The trade against Lyon: Lyon has far more kosher food, Grenoble has far less driving. Grenoble is in the mountains rather than an hour and a quarter from them, and for a family doing a week of walking that is the difference between a base and a commute.
- There is kosher provision here but it is small — a brasserie under the local rabbinate, a grocery and butcher, and Chabad. Establish what is open for your dates before you commit to a week, and do not plan Shabbos on the assumption of a restaurant.
- Anchored on the city centre rather than on a shul, deliberately. Grenoble's Jewish life is spread across the city rather than gathered in one quarter, and published addresses for the Grande Synagogue disagree with each other — so the honest anchor is the town, and the community is who to ask for the door.
- The cable car to the Bastille goes up from the middle of town and is listed on this site; the Vercors and the Chartreuse start at the edge of it.
- Listed as an ordinary hotel city. Nothing here makes a kosher claim and none is implied.
Distances measured from Grenoble city centre, not from the building itself.