There is a restaurant, owned by a Chef, specialising in Melons.The
owner wrote a book, now out of print entitled "Le Melon" or "Melons" I
would like to know the town the restaurant is in.

Hello opaul22,


Thank you for your question. 

Searching Google for [restaurant +france +melon] I found this unusual
bistro mentioned at a page I translated with the Google translation
utility:

Le Melon
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://triesse.rsi.fr/melon/news.php%3Ftask%3Dview%26newsID%3D4&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drestaurant%2B%252Bfrance%2B%252Bmelon%2BOR%2Bmelons%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8

A restaurant 100% melon
 
It is a restorer not like the others!
Jean-Jacques Prévôt invented a kitchen which turns around melon.

Its imagination concocté an infinite variety of preparations
containing melon, of the entries, while passing by the hot dishes to
finish in beauty with the desserts.

Its kitchen is a search for pleasure!

Its restaurant is in Cavaillon.

Addition it: October 14, 2002

I continued to now search for [Jean-Jacques Prévôt] to find additional
pages:

Restaurant Jean-Jacques Prévôt
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://www.restaurant-prevot.com/&prev=/search%3Fq%3DJean-Jacques%2BPr%25C3%25A9v%25C3%25B4t%2B%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG

The site is available in English at this address:
http://www.restaurant-prevot.com/anglais/

The restaurant address and particulars are:

Opening - Service from 12:00 am to 2.00 pm and from 7:30 to 9:15 pm.

Closed Sundays and Mondays except special reservation for groups.

Address

Restaurant Jean-Jacques Prévôt
353, avenue de Verdun - 84300 Cavaillon
Tel  04 90 71 32 43
Fax 04 90 71 97 05 

American Express, MasterCard & Visa accepted.


Surprisingly, there was no mention of his book at this site, so I
continued to search [book +melon +chef +france] to find:

http://www.cookbookfair.com/aw2000.htm  

- Le Melon, by M.Prevot, published by Equinoxe.

The melon, a very popular basic part of the meal in France, Italy,
Spain and America is surprisingly the subject of little writing. So
this book is most welcomed, all the more because it is quite well
done.


Searching just a bit further, I did find the book for sale at his
site:
http://www.restaurant-prevot.com/boutique.html

Deliver "Melon"

Small anthology of gastronomy of Provence by Jean-Jacques Provost.
 
You can receive the book dedicated by Jean-Jacques Prévôt. Thank you
to contact us by mall .

The book - 135 F/20,58?

This book is appeared with the Equinoxe editions in 1999 in the
collection "Greedy Squares".


I trust my research has provided the information you desired. If a
link above should fail to work or anything require further
explanation, please do post a Request for Clarification and I will be
pleased to assist further.

Regards,

-=clouseau=-

Thank you very much.