30 editor picks across France.
30 french fine dining restaurants worth the trip across France, editor-ranked. All cuisines in France.
William Frachot runs the only two-Michelin-star kitchen in Dijon, inside the Hostellerie du Chapeau Rouge near Place Darcy in the city centre.
OrderThe reworked oeufs en meurette with river fish that anchors his tasting menus.
TipThe adult tasting menu starts at €125; book the Wednesday or Thursday seating for an easier table.
William Frachot holds two Michelin stars at Chapeau Rouge in Dijon, pairing Burgundy terroir with reworked oeufs en meurette and river fish.
OrderThe reworked oeufs en meurette with river fish that anchors his tasting menus.
TipThe adult tasting menu starts at €125; book the Wednesday or Thursday seating for an easier table.
Flaveur in Nice's Carre d'Or holds two Michelin stars under brothers Mickael and Gael Tourteaux, the only two star room in the city and a contemporary.
OrderThe San Remo caramote prawn starter from the tasting menu, the dish that secured the second star.
TipReservations 4 to 6 weeks ahead; closed Sunday and Monday. Two tasting menus only; no a la carte service.
L'Assiette Champenoise is Arnaud Lallement's three-Michelin-star table in Tinqueux, on the edge of Reims, cooking Champagne produce with caviar and lobster.
OrderThe blue lobster, one of three signature plates, with a jus made from the heads.
TipThe €175 weekday lunch menu (Monday, Thursday, Friday) is the lowest-priced way in; the house is shut every Tuesday and Wednesday.
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.
OrderThe Carte blanche menu, a surprise sequence that changes each week with local producers' supply.
TipThe weekday lunch Carte blanche is €60 and dinner runs €120 or €150; it is shut at weekends and for short breaks, so check the site's closure notice.
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.
OrderThe Carte blanche menu, a surprise sequence that changes each week with local producers' supply.
TipThe weekday lunch Carte blanche is €60 and dinner runs €120 or €150; it is shut at weekends and for short breaks, so check the site's closure notice.
Maison Nouvelle in Bordeaux's Chartrons is Philippe Etchebest's two-Michelin-star table on Rue Rode, opened December 2021 and confirmed at two stars.
TipFriday lunch is the only midday service; book the dining room two months ahead for dinner and ask for the corner table looking onto Rue Rode.
Takao Takano in Lyon's 6e is the two-star tasting room where the chef applies Japanese training to French sourcing across a six-course set. Priced at €€€€.
OrderTasting only; let the kitchen drive.
TipBook three to four weeks ahead; lunch is the easier seating than dinner.
Takao Takano in Lyon's 6e is the two-star Japanese-French tasting room on Rue Malesherbes, with a 22-seat dining room cooking six and nine-course sets.
OrderThe nine-course tasting; the wine pairing is the move.
TipLunch on Wed-Fri is the easier seating; closed Sunday and Monday.
Table Bruno Verjus in Paris's 12e cooks ingredient-first: produce sourced by name, fish breathing that morning, no dish served twice in a row.
OrderThe 7-course tasting menu and a pairing of growers' wines.
TipTwo Michelin stars and number 8 on The World's 50 Best 2025. Book eight weeks out for dinner, four for lunch.
Arnaud Faye's Épicure inside Le Bristol Paris keeps a three-star classical French line: truffled macaroni, Bresse poularde poached in a bladder for two.
OrderThe truffled macaroni in winter; the bladder-poached Bresse chicken for two.
TipSunday lunch in the garden is the seating most locals book for a celebration.
Le Saison is Ronan Kervarrec's two-Michelin-star house in Saint-Grégoire, ten minutes north of Rennes, cooking Breton produce with classical precision.
OrderPrince de l'Océan five-course menu
TipThe two-course Affaires lunch on weekdays at €65 is the value route into a two-star kitchen; the dining room seats few, so book early.
Au Crocodile is Strasbourg's grande-dame gastronomic room on Rue de l'Outre, holding one Michelin star under chef Romain Brillat near Place Kleber.
Le Prieuré holds one Michelin star under chef Christophe Chiavola, serving creative cooking in a former cloister across the Rhône from Avignon.
OrderThe five-course menu, or the Pornic pigeon roasted over embers from the à la carte.
TipThe five-course menu costs €145; the hotel also runs a bistro-style room, La petite table du Prieuré.
Le Prieuré holds one Michelin star under chef Christophe Chiavola, serving creative cooking in a former cloister across the Rhône from Avignon.
OrderThe five-course menu, or the Pornic pigeon roasted over embers from the à la carte.
TipThe five-course menu costs €145; the hotel also runs a bistro-style room, La petite table du Prieuré.
Le Pressoir d'Argent in Bordeaux's InterContinental hotel is the two-Michelin-star room where Gordon Ramsay's Bordeaux kitchen presses Breton lobster on one.
TipThe Breton lobster a la presse is the signature; the room is jacket-recommended and pours one of the strongest Bordeaux lists in the city.
Le Restaurant du Cerisier holds a Michelin star on Avenue du Peuple Belge in Lille, where Guillaume Barengo runs one set menu from an open kitchen.
OrderWhatever the single set menu is running that week.
TipThere is no a la carte here. The vegetarian version of the Amarelle menu runs at the same 105 euro price, so say so when you book.
Pureté is Gérald Guille's Michelin-starred room on Rue de la Monnaie in Lille, a narrow dining room built around tasting menus and an open pass.
OrderThe five-course menu, the shortest way into this kitchen.
TipThe 55 euro weekday lunch is the cheapest seat in a starred Lille dining room, and it runs Wednesday to Friday only.
La Mere Brazier in Lyon's 1er is the restaurant Eugenie Brazier opened in 1921 and Mathieu Viannay now runs at two-star level on Rue Royale.
OrderVolaille de Bresse demi-deuil with the original 1933 service.
TipLunch is half the dinner price; the dining room is the original 1921 one.
Paul Bocuse's L'Auberge du Pont de Collonges sits on the Saone north of Lyon, the dining room that held three Michelin stars from 1965 to 2020.
OrderSoupe aux truffes VGE, the 1975 dish for Valery Giscard d'Estaing, still on the carte.
TipA taxi from central Lyon takes 25 minutes; the suburb is unfit for walking back.
Une Table au Sud in Marseille's 2e holds a Michelin star above the Vieux Port quay, Ludovic Turac at the pass since 2010 with a Provencal-Mediterranean.
OrderThe €95 lunch tasting; the best value reading of the kitchen's work.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday; book a window seat over the Quai du Port at sunset.
LuluRouget in Nantes is Ludovic Pouzelgues's Michelin-starred room on the Île de Nantes, running surprise menus built on La Turballe and Le Croisic fish.
TipMenus are trust-the-chef only, in three to seven courses; the 2026 guide renewed the star, so book well ahead.
Le Manoir de la Régate sits on the Erdre in north Nantes, where Mathieu Pérou holds a Michelin star and green star for menus rooted in river and garden.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday but the house opens for lunch on public holidays; ask for the Erdre-facing windows.
Freia cooks in a rooftop greenhouse above the Malakoff car park in Nantes, where Sarah Mainguy earned a Michelin star for plant-led, Nordic-edged menus.
TipAnnual closure runs 1 to 15 January; climb the outside staircase and follow the lights, or take the lift to the sixth floor.
Le Chantecler at Hotel Le Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice holds one Michelin star under Virginie Basselot, Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2015.
OrderThe seasonal tasting around local sea bream, the Riviera producers Basselot champions.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday. The Salon Royal is the summer room; book Louis XIV indoors in winter.
JAN in Nice's Port district holds one Michelin star under South African chef Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen, the first South African chef to earn the award.
OrderThe single tasting menu only; van der Westhuizen plays sweet.
TipMARIA, the cheese bar across the street, opened 2017 and serves 91 plates of cheese and homemade preserves.
Le Chantecler at Hotel Le Negresco holds one Michelin star under Virginie Basselot, MOF 2015, in the Belle Epoque dining room on Nice's Promenade des Anglais.
Arnaud Donckele's Plénitude in Paris cooks sauce-first inside Cheval Blanc on the Seine. Three Michelin stars since the room opened in 2021.
OrderThe seven-course tasting; ask for the langoustine course early in the order.
TipThe Sunday dinner is the easiest seating, with the same kitchen and a calmer floor.
Guy Savoy's Restaurant Guy Savoy in Paris cooks inside the Monnaie mint on the Seine. The artichoke and truffle soup has been on the carte since 1980.
OrderThe artichoke and black truffle soup with brioche, on the carte since 1980.
TipLunch at €230 is the cheapest way into the three-star room. Book eight weeks ahead.
Arbane is chef Philippe Mille's two-Michelin-star table in an 1874 townhouse on Rue Noël in Reims, cooking Champagne produce over vine shoots.
OrderThe Arbanothèque, seven bites for the seven Champagne grape varieties, opens every long menu.
TipThe three-course Premier Cru menu at €80 is served at lunch from Monday to Friday only, so aim for a Monday, Tuesday or Friday.
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