30 editor picks across France.
30 restaurants worth the trip across France, editor-ranked by TableJourney. All France guides.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chez Fonfon in Marseille's 7e sits in the Vallon des Auffes cove and has cooked bouillabaisse for the Mounier family since 1952, the fish landed each morning.
OrderThe bouillabaisse for two, served in the traditional sequence of broth then carved fish.
TipClosed late January for two weeks; book a sea-side table at lunch for the cove light.
Chez Michel in Marseille's 7e has cooked the oldest bouillabaisse in the city since 1946, the Visciano family now in the third generation at the Catalans.
OrderThe bouillabaisse at €80 per person, two-person minimum, the canonical reference in the city.
TipReservation only; cash and card both accepted. Closed Sunday evening and Monday lunch.
Bertrand Grébaut's Septime in Paris remains the room every neo-bistro in the city compares itself to. Reservations open 21 days ahead and burn within an hour.
OrderThe cured mackerel starter and whatever fish is on the second course.
TipEasier on a Tuesday lunch than Friday dinner. Same kitchen, same wine, half the wait list.
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.
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.
La Mere Brazier in Lyon's 1er is the historic room where Eugenie Brazier earned six Michelin stars in 1933, now run by Mathieu Viannay in two-star form.
OrderThe Volaille de Bresse demi-deuil, the signature dish since 1921.
TipBook the lunch menu for half the dinner price; the dining room is the original.
La Mercerie in Marseille's 1er opened in 2018 from the Paris Popup trio Harry Cummins, Laura Vidal and Julia Mitton, a stripped-concrete room.
OrderThe set tasting; the kitchen reads as a tighter Septime cousin south of Paris.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday; book the terrace on Cours Saint-Louis for warm nights.
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.
The Pourcel twins cook their Michelin-starred Mediterranean register at Jardin des Sens, inside the Hôtel Richer de Belleval on Place de la Canourgue.
TipDinner is the full theatre under the frescoes; Friday and Saturday lunch is the shorter, gentler way into the room.
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.
La Merenda in Vieux Nice runs Dominique Le Stanc's bench seat Nissard kitchen on Rue Raoul Bosio, the chef who walked away from a Michelin star.
OrderThe stockfish stew (estocaficada) and the petits farcis; Le Stanc holds the canonical versions.
TipNo telephone, cash only, two services. Book in person at the door earlier the same day.
Raquel Carena cooks Argentine-French intuition food at Le Baratin, the Belleville room every Parisian chef calls their favourite when no one is listening.
OrderThe sweetbreads if they are on, and a glass from Philippe Pinoteau's natural list.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday, often Saturday too. Phone bookings only, no website.
Racines is Virginie Giboire's Michelin-starred room in Rennes, a fish-led tasting-menu restaurant rebuilt in 2020 a few steps off Boulevard de la Liberté.
OrderWhatever fish course anchors that week's menu
Ima is Julien Lemarié's Michelin-starred Rennes restaurant, holder of a Green Star too, pairing Breton produce with Japanese technique over three menus.
OrderThe ten-course Interlude if you can give it the whole evening
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.
OrderThe single set menu, where each stage pairs a main preparation with two supporting ingredients.
TipDonvito took over the kitchen in January 2026; tables are in the 18th-century room or in the garden.
Origine is Tomofumi Uchimura's Michelin-starred table on Place Wilson in Dijon, a Japanese chef cooking Burgundy produce with a light, precise hand.
OrderThe skrei cod in a miso and pain d'epices crust with cauliflower tempura.
TipA vegetarian tasting menu runs alongside the main one; ask when booking if that matters to your table.
CIBO is Angelo Ferrigno's Michelin-starred dining room on Rue Jeannin in Dijon, built entirely on ingredients sourced within 200km of the city.
OrderThe evening seven-course tasting menu built entirely on producers within 200km.
TipThe €28-38 lunch menu is the accessible route into a kitchen that sources everything hyper-locally.
Regain in Lyon's 1er sits at the foot of the Croix-Rousse slope, where the kitchen runs a Mediterranean-leaning author menu paired with the city's tighter.
OrderThe carte changes weekly, take the chef's tasting at lunch for value.
TipLunch is the easier seating; book the natural-wine pairing for the full effect.
Circle in Lyon's 1er pulls a single seating around the kitchen counter for a chef's-choice tasting; the ten-cover room earned a Michelin star.
OrderThe full tasting; there is no carte at dinner.
TipOne service per night, Wed-Sat; book three weeks ahead via Instagram.
Daniel et Denise Crequi in Lyon's 3e is the original 1968 location, now run by MOF Joseph Viola, whose pate en croute won the world championship in 2009.
OrderThe pate en croute as a starter, then the quenelle de brochet.
TipClosed Sat-Sun; book a fortnight ahead. The bouchon label is genuine here.
Le Miramar in Marseille's 2e was founded in 1965 and is a founding member of the Bouillabaisse Charter, Christian Buffa in the kitchen running fish.
OrderThe bouillabaisse at €80, served quayside with Notre-Dame de la Garde over your shoulder.
TipClosed Monday; the front terrace looks straight at the cathedral on the hill.
Ourea in Marseille's 6e is Matthieu Roche's vegetable-led tasting room with sommelier Camille Fromont, in the 2026 Michelin Guide for plant-led cooking.
OrderThe full tasting; the kitchen builds the sequence around what came in that morning.
TipClosed Sunday and Monday; book early for Friday or Saturday, the room seats 24.
Tuba Club in Marseille's 8e is a fisherman-cabanon kitchen in the Goudes village, 80 seats on a rock terrace above the Mediterranean with Sicilian.
OrderThe grilled fish of the day; the cabanon kitchen runs simple and salt-driven.
TipReach by bus 19 from Rond-Point du Prado or taxi; book six weeks ahead.
Reflet d'Obione pairs a Michelin star with an Écotable certification in Montpellier, Laurent Cherchi cooking low-waste menus from Occitanie's producers.
TipThe room on Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau is small and dinner-led; Friday and Saturday are the only lunch services.
Charles Fontès runs La Réserve Rimbaud, a Michelin-starred house above the Lez in Montpellier where the terrace seats hang directly over the river water.
TipClosed Monday, dinner only on Saturday and lunch only on Sunday; the lunch menu is the value play and the riverside terrace is worth requesting when booking.
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