The streets around the covered market on Place Pie, busiest on market mornings from Tuesday to Sunday, with chocolatiers on Rue de la Bonneterie, a coffee roaster and café terraces on Place Saint-Didier.
Première Édition is a bistro in a former bookshop on Rue Prévôt in Avignon, cooking with local producers and pouring low-intervention wines.
OrderDishes cooked on embers, such as beef kefta with fresh herbs, tomato, cucumber and soy mayonnaise.
TipYonder puts main courses at €27 and up; Michelin notes a gentler-priced set menu at lunch.
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.
OrderThe Franco-Japanese bistro plates; Le Fooding singled out daring duck hearts over gem lettuce.
TipThe dining room is tiny and the terrace is the draw; the wine list is regional and organic, from Châteauneuf to Ventoux.
Première Édition is a bistro in a former bookshop on Rue Prévôt in Avignon, cooking with local producers and pouring low-intervention wines.
OrderDishes cooked on embers, such as beef kefta with fresh herbs, tomato, cucumber and soy mayonnaise.
TipYonder puts main courses at €27 and up; Michelin notes a gentler-priced set menu at lunch.
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.
OrderThe Franco-Japanese bistro plates; Le Fooding singled out daring duck hearts over gem lettuce.
TipThe dining room is tiny and the terrace is the draw; the wine list is regional and organic, from Châteauneuf to Ventoux.
Grand Café Barretta occupies what it calls Avignon's oldest café, founded in 1773, with a hackberry-shaded terrace on Place Saint-Didier and a brasserie menu.
OrderA plate from the brasserie menu, with a bottle from the sommelier’s list, priced from €18 to €55.
TipThe site says hours change with the season; one room becomes a theatre during the Festival, and the wine list runs from €18 to €55.
Brasserie du Conservatoire faces the market halls on Place Pie in Avignon, serving food and wine from 07:00 to 01:30 under century-old plane trees.
OrderA brasserie plate such as a grill, pasta or pizza, with a glass of wine on the terrace.
TipThe tourism listing for 2026 gives à la carte at €12 to €20 and menus at €19 to €30; vegetarian dishes are on the carte.
Cuisine Centr'Halles is the full-service restaurant inside Les Halles d'Avignon, where chef Jonathan Chiri cooks from the stalls each morning.
OrderThe daily-changing market menu; a seat at the counter lets you watch the chef cook.
TipIt serves breakfast and lunch, not dinner; the tourism guide lists an adult menu at €22 and à la carte dishes from €8 to €24.
Le Saint Chocolat serves hot chocolates, coffees, croissants and bagels on Place Saint-Didier in Avignon, with sweets made in its Châteaurenard workshops.
DrinkHot chocolate
TipBagels and salads cover lunch, and the shop takes delivery orders through Uber Eats if you would rather not queue on the square.
Coffeecina is a coffee shop 50 metres from the Halles car park on Rue de la Bonneterie in Avignon, with a coworking floor upstairs for up to 20 people.
TipBreakfast formulas and box lunches are on the menu, and a meeting room can be booked for work sessions upstairs.
Mario & Co pours espresso, lattes and chai at a counter inside Les Halles d'Avignon on Place Pie, open Tuesday to Sunday from 07:30 to 14:00.
DrinkEspresso of the day
TipBagels, pancakes and a €23 brunch share the menu; the counter shuts at 14:00 and all day Monday, so plan a morning visit.
Grand Café Barretta presents itself as Avignon's oldest café, founded in 1773, and opens at 08:00 daily on Place Saint-Didier, with a library lounge for tea.
DrinkTea in the library lounge
TipThe terrace sits under a century-old hackberry tree; the operator warns that opening hours can shift with the season.
Le Palet Noir is a chocolate shop on Rue de la Bonneterie in Avignon, opened in October 2018 by Flore and Thibault Buso, with its workshop in view.
Worth the queueSingle-origin ganaches such as Uganda 80% cocoa
TipChocolates are made fresh and keep only a short time because no preservative other than honey is used, so buy for the next few days.
Authentique makes chocolate from cocoa beans, from roasting to the bar, in a shop on Rue Carnot in Avignon that also sells ganaches, pralines and ice cream.
Worth the queuePalets des papes, a gianduja and shortbread sweet
TipIts post-summer notice says the shop now opens without a break from 09:30 to 18:30, and ice creams are still sold in the shop.
La Fabrique des Saveurs is a bakery and pâtisserie run by Arnaud and Nicolas on Rue de la Bonneterie in Avignon, with a street terrace and miller's bread.
TipGault&Millau singles out the large miller's bread, the wholemeal, the rye and the pastry; Wednesday is the weekly closing day.
Cafés au Brésil has roasted coffee in its shop on Rue des Fourbisseurs in Avignon since 1976, selling single-origin beans, tea and infusions.
BeansBrazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India
BrewsWhole bean retail, Ground coffee
TipThe shop marked 50 years of roasting in Avignon in 2026; on Thursday it opens only in the afternoon, from 14:30 to 19:00.
Tapis Rouge is a wine bar and wine shop on Rue du Vieux Sextier in Avignon, pouring regional wines with cheese and charcuterie plates and a terrace.
WineRegional wines including Châteauneuf-du-Pape, plus champagne and spirits
FoodCheeses from Les Halles, Ardèche charcuterie and Scottish wild salmon
TipIt closes Sunday and Monday and takes a summer break in late July; the air-conditioned upstairs room can be booked for private tastings.
Au Fût et à Mesure is a self-service beer bar on Rue Saint-Jean le Vieux in Avignon, with beer taps on the tables and 45 house cocktails ordered by tablet.
DrinkDraught beer poured at the table, plus 45 house cocktails
FoodAppetiser boards to share
TipPour your own beer at the table; acoustic concerts, karaoke and darts are on the programme, and sports matches show on large screens.
Nachos builds Mexican fajitas, tacos, bowls and quesadillas to order on Place Pie in Avignon, seven days a week from 11:30 until the evening.
TryFajitas, tacos, bowls and quesadillas built to order
TipPart of a French chain, the Avignon branch has a terrace, sells for takeaway and delivery, and accepts meal vouchers.
Les Halles d'Avignon is the covered market on Place Pie, with about 40 traders beneath Patrick Blanc's vertical garden, open Tuesday to Sunday mornings.
TipThe Vaucluse tourist board lists 06:00 to 15:00 on Fridays and weekends for 27 July to 31 December 2026, with special hours at year end.
Cuisine Centr'Halles teaches market cooking inside Les Halles d'Avignon: a tour of the stalls to plan the menu, then the class and lunch with local wine.
TipClasses start at 09:00 and cost €110 including the meal, wine and coffee; they run Tuesday to Sunday, and July is the month to book well ahead.
La Petite Cuisine des Halles is a free Saturday demonstration inside Les Halles d'Avignon, where a chef cooks a market recipe at 11:00 and shares a tasting.
TipIt runs every Saturday at 11:00 except in August, in the demonstration kitchen by the south entrance of the market, and entry is free.
Cuisine Centr'Halles is the full-service restaurant inside Les Halles d'Avignon, where chef Jonathan Chiri cooks from the stalls each morning.
OrderThe daily-changing market menu; a seat at the counter lets you watch the chef cook.
TipIt serves breakfast and lunch, not dinner; the tourism guide lists an adult menu at €22 and à la carte dishes from €8 to €24.
Mario & Co serves a €23 brunch, plus bagels and savoury pancakes, at its counter inside Les Halles d'Avignon on Place Pie, Tuesday to Sunday.
OrderScrambled eggs at €8.50 or filled savoury pancakes at €10, from the brunch and savoury list.
TipThe counter shuts at 14:00 and all day Monday, so brunch here is a morning plan; book through the shop's online page.
Grand Café Barretta occupies what it calls Avignon's oldest café, founded in 1773, with a hackberry-shaded terrace on Place Saint-Didier and a brasserie menu.
OrderA plate from the brasserie menu, with a bottle from the sommelier’s list, priced from €18 to €55.
TipThe site says hours change with the season; one room becomes a theatre during the Festival, and the wine list runs from €18 to €55.
Brasserie du Conservatoire faces the market halls on Place Pie in Avignon, serving food and wine from 07:00 to 01:30 under century-old plane trees.
OrderA brasserie plate such as a grill, pasta or pizza, with a glass of wine on the terrace.
TipThe tourism listing for 2026 gives à la carte at €12 to €20 and menus at €19 to €30; vegetarian dishes are on the carte.
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