30 editor picks across France.
30 fine dining worth the trip across France, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All France guides.
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.
AM par Alexandre Mazzia in Marseille's 8e holds three Michelin stars on a 24-seat counter set, the kitchen built around fish, smoke and African-Mediterranean.
OrderThe set tasting only, around 40 to 50 small plates served in successive waves over a long evening.
TipBook the moment the calendar opens online, around three months ahead.
Le Petit Nice Passedat in Marseille's 7e holds three Michelin stars on the Anse de Maldorme cove, the Passedat family on this rock since 1917 and Gerald.
OrderThe Ma Bouille Abaisse, Gerald Passedat's three-service reading of the city's canonical dish.
TipLunch is the easier seating than dinner; the cove view alone justifies the lead time.
Flaveur in Nice's Carre d'Or holds two Michelin stars under the Tourteaux brothers, the only two star room in the city and a Riviera Caribbean tasting.
Alain Passard's Arpège has cooked vegetable-first three-Michelin-star menus in Paris since 1986. The kitchen pulls produce daily from three estate gardens.
OrderThe full vegetable tasting menu; the chef's signature tomato confit dessert.
TipLunch at €175 lands a fraction of the cost of dinner and uses the same kitchen line.
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.
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.
Bloempot is Florent Ladeyn's converted carpentry workshop in Lille, cooking Flanders produce hard and plating it plainly on brutalist ceramics.
OrderRed cabbage steak with concentrated meat jus and a cherry quenelle.
TipThe 37 euro weekday lunch is the cheap way in. Beers come from Ladeyn's own Bierbuik brewpub down the road.
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.
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.
Py-R below Rue de Metz near Pont Neuf is chef Pierre Lambinon's two Michelin star dining room with brick-vaulted ceilings and a daily tasting menu.
TipThe €158 menu PY-R is the canonical course; the €188 Degustation is the full tour. Book three weeks ahead for weekend service.
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.
Au 14 Fevrier in Vieux Lyon is Tsuyoshi Arai's twelve-seat Michelin-starred room where Kyoto training meets French sourcing across a French-Japanese tasting.
OrderThe set tasting; the room only does set menu, no carte.
TipTwelve seats means tight booking; reserve four weeks ahead minimum.
Jardin des Sens is the Pourcel twins' Michelin-starred room inside the Hôtel Richer de Belleval, frescoed ceilings over creative Mediterranean menus.
TipThe Menu Signature runs 240 euros; La Canourgue downstairs serves the Pourcel register at bistro prices every day of the week.
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 holds one Michelin star under Virginie Basselot, MOF 2015, in the Belle Epoque dining room on Nice's Promenade des Anglais.
JAN in Nice's Port district holds one Michelin star under Jan Hendrik van der Westhuizen, the first South African chef to earn the award, in an intimate 20.
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.
Kei Kobayashi's Restaurant KEI in Paris was the first restaurant cooked by a Japanese chef in France to hold three Michelin stars, awarded in 2020.
OrderThe garden vegetable composition starter; the sea bream main course.
TipThe eight-week lead time is real. Set a phone reminder for the day bookings open.
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