The restaurants worth a reservation in Avignon, from neighbourhood bistros to the new classics.
The restaurants worth the trip in Avignon: bistros, neo-classics, neighbourhood favourites, and the rooms locals book first.
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Order The Carte blanche menu, a surprise sequence that changes each week with local producers' supply.
Pollen holds Avignon's Michelin star in the 2026 guide: chef Mathieu Desmarest cooks a weekly surprise menu from an open kitchen on Rue Joseph Vernet.
Order The five-course menu, or the Pornic pigeon roasted over embers from the à la carte.
Le Prieuré holds one Michelin star under chef Christophe Chiavola, serving creative cooking in a former cloister across the Rhône from Avignon.
Order The single set menu, where each stage pairs a main preparation with two supporting ingredients.
La Mirande serves one tasting menu from chef Michele Donvito in an 18th-century salon behind the Palais des Papes in Avignon, Michelin Selected in 2026.
Order The seasonal menu; summer 2026 carried the Sur le Pont menu, built on the flavours of the south.
Restaurant Sevin sits against the Palais des Papes in Avignon, where Guilhem Sevin cooks a seasonal menu backed by a cellar book of Châteauneuf-du-Pape.
Order The Pérouvence menu, which pairs Provençal produce with Peruvian chillies such as aji panca.
Hiély-Lucullus, upstairs on Rue de la République in Avignon, blends Provençal produce with Peruvian chillies in chef Gérald Azoulay's menus.
Order The gastronomic or the vegetable menu, both rewritten as the day’s produce arrives.
La Vieille Fontaine is the Hôtel d'Europe's restaurant in Avignon, where chef Pascal Auger cooks gastronomic and vegetable menus near a shaded courtyard.
Order The lunch menu from €42, or the Auberge menu from €69, both in a revisited Provençal tradition.
Auberge de Cassagne is a Provençal bastide hotel at Le Pontet, on the edge of Avignon, with a classical restaurant, a terrace and a Rhône-focused wine list.
Order The Menu Inspiration; Michelin noted pressed Alpilles lamb served in the style of a katsu sando.
Le Goût du Jour cooks chef Julien Chazal's modern menus in a room of stone walls, parquet and a coffered ceiling on Rue Saint-Étienne in Avignon.
Order The six-course dinner menu at €78, or the €45 menu at Saturday lunch.
Acte 2 sits behind a 17th-century green wooden door in Avignon, where chef Grégory Dandel serves set menus: six courses at dinner, one lunch on Saturdays.
Order The €44 Joat menu, or the six-sequence menu at €67 for the longer version.
Le Joat is a long, narrow dining room on Rue des Trois Faucons in Avignon where chef Joris Tixador cooks weekly-changing seasonal menus, from €34 at lunch.
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Order The seasonal menu; Yonder praised roast John Dory, langoustine risotto and herb-crusted veal.
L'Agape is chef Julien Gleize's Bib Gourmand bistro on Place des Corps Saints in Avignon, with a fountain-side terrace and a Provençal menu.
Order Dishes cooked on embers, such as beef kefta with fresh herbs, tomato, cucumber and soy mayonnaise.
Première Édition is a bistro in a former bookshop on Rue Prévôt in Avignon, cooking with local producers and pouring low-intervention wines.
Order Daube de bœuf à l'avignonnaise, then the iced praline meringue the staff announce aloud.
La Fourchette is a bistro on Rue Racine in Avignon serving daube avignonnaise, breaded pig's trotter and an iced praline meringue announced at the table.
Order The Franco-Japanese bistro plates; Le Fooding singled out daring duck hearts over gem lettuce.
Aimé is a bistro under the plane trees of Place du Cloître Saint-Pierre in Avignon, where chef Ryo Kirikura cooks locavore French food with Japanese notes.
Order Octopus with rose yoghurt and pickled cucumber, or the confit veal shank with chickpea purée.
Bèou Bistrot, run by Marie Petit-Doux in her grandfather’s old house on Rue Violette in Avignon, cooks between Provence and the eastern Mediterranean.
Order The lamb parmentier with thyme jus that Michelin singles out from the short slate menu.
Numéro 75 serves a short market-led menu with Provençal touches in a 19th-century townhouse and leafy courtyard on Rue Guillaume Puy in Avignon.
Order Grilled prawns glazed with ginger and soy, or swordfish with black rice and caponata.
Café Roma, Italia Palladino's second address, sits at the foot of a Palais des Papes tower in Avignon, with a terrace and Mediterranean cooking.
Order The day’s semainier dish, or the pâté en croûte at €12 and mimosa eggs at €9.
La Grande Brasserie BIB serves classic brasserie dishes in a former cloister on Rue Joseph Vernet in Avignon, with a courtyard terrace and a cocktail bar.
Order The €17 lunch main, or the starter of tuna tataki with two sesames.
La Cour d'Honneur serves lunch formulas from €17 and an evening carte on Rue Joseph Vernet in Avignon, and it opens for dinner seven days a week.
Order Gragnano pasta or the €80 Menu Voyage, which the kitchen changes every month.
Italie là-bas Ré is chef Italia Palladino's restaurant in the Hôtel de Caumont courtyard in Avignon, reopened there in February 2026 with Neapolitan roots.
Order The short seasonal menu of three starters, mains and desserts, with Italian touches.
Le Bistrot Pamard is La Mirande's daily bistro in Avignon, where chef Michele Donvito writes a short menu of three starters, three mains and three desserts.
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