Toulouse: Cassoulet Tasting Tour with Local Hosts
Discover Toulouse’s culinary soul on a cassoulet tasting tour. Visit 3 local homes, savor authentic recipes, and learn about the cultural significance of this regional dish.
Cassoulet de Toulouse is the city's signature slow-cooked bean dish with confit duck, Toulouse sausage and pork belly. Reservations recommended in season.
The cassoulet's origin legend places it around 1355 during the Hundred Years' War, when Castelnaudary peasants under English siege threw beans, sausage and confit duck into a clay cassole. The Toulouse version, distinct from Castelnaudary and Carcassonne, uses confit duck plus the city's coiled saucisse de Toulouse. The Confrerie du Cassoulet de Toulouse was founded in April 2022 to defend the recipe.
4 editor picks for Cassoulet de Toulouse in Toulouse, ranked by editorial score. All Toulouse signature dishes · Cassoulet de Toulouse across every city.
Restaurant Emile ★ 4.6
saint-georges · 13 Place Saint-Georges, 31000 Toulouse
Restaurant Emile on Toulouse's pedestrian Place Saint-Georges has been the canonical cassoulet address since 1947, with chef Christophe Fasan in charge.
Le Genty Magre ★ 4.5
carmes · 3 Rue Genty Magre, 31000 Toulouse
Le Genty Magre between Esquirol and Capitole is chef Romain Brard's southwestern dining room, winner of the 2023 Toulouse Cassoulet Championship.
Le Colombier ★ 4.4
capitole · 14 Rue de Bayard, 31000 Toulouse
Le Colombier on Rue de Bayard near Capitole is the cassoulet institution opened in 1874 as a bourgeois boarding house, recipe unchanged for a century.
Le Bibent ★ 4.4
capitole · 5 Place du Capitole, 31000 Toulouse
Le Bibent on Toulouse's Place du Capitole is the 1861 Napoleon III brasserie revived in 2009 with chef Christian Constant, a national monument.
Learn to cook it, or eat it with a guide
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