Eat in Ecusson, Montpellier

Jardin des Sens

• ★ 4.7
• Mediterranean
• €€€€
• Écusson

The Pourcel twins cook their Michelin-starred Mediterranean register at Jardin des Sens, inside the Hôtel Richer de Belleval on Place de la Canourgue.

Reflet d'Obione

• ★ 4.6
• Modern French
• €€€€
• Écusson

Reflet d'Obione pairs a Michelin star with an Écotable certification in Montpellier, Laurent Cherchi cooking low-waste menus from Occitanie's producers.

Pastis

• ★ 4.6
• Modern French
• €€€
• Écusson

Pastis hides Daniel Lutrand's Michelin-starred cooking on narrow Rue Terral in Montpellier, market-led surprise menus beside the Sainte-Anne quarter.

Ébullition

• ★ 4.5
• Mediterranean
• €€€
• Écusson

Ébullition is Boris Caillol's Michelin-starred room on Rue du Pila Saint-Gély in Montpellier, tasting menus perfumed with herbs from the organic markets.

Céna

• ★ 4.5
• Modern French
• €€€
• Écusson

Céna serves Clément Briand-Seurat's tasting menus under 14th-century cross vaults on Place Pétrarque in Montpellier, a Gault et Millau three-toque table.

Artisane

• ★ 4.3
• Modern French
• €€€
• Écusson

Artisane runs one hidden evening menu a night in Montpellier, Marina Davilla's chef's table on Rue du Palais des Guilhem built from ethical producers.

L'Artichaut

• ★ 4.4
• Modern French
• €€
• Écusson

L'Artichaut holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand on Rue Saint Firmin in Montpellier, Sébastien Perrier's seasonal set menus at honest old-town prices.

Le Petit Jardin

• ★ 4.4
• Modern French
• €€€
• Écusson

Le Petit Jardin hides a tree-shaded garden restaurant off Rue Jean Jacques Rousseau in Montpellier, Clément Gueudré cooking seasonal French menus.

Pampa Bar & Brasserie

• ★ 4.1
• French brasserie
• €€€
• Écusson

Pampa Bar & Brasserie serves brasserie classics in Montpellier's 1770 bathhouse off the Comédie, courtyard tables under century-old palms at Les Bains.

La Canourgue

• ★ 4.2
• French bistro
• €€€
• Écusson

La Canourgue is the Pourcel brothers' every-day bistronomic room at Hôtel Richer de Belleval in Montpellier, Mediterranean plates on the shaded square.

Le Paresseur

• ★ 4.2
• Mediterranean
• €€
• Écusson

Le Paresseur cooks grandmother recipes with Italian flair and Sétois heritage under vaulted stone on Rue Jules Latreilhe in central Montpellier.

Tôt ou Tard

• ★ 4.2
• French bistro
• €€
• Écusson

Tôt ou Tard fills a plane-tree square in Montpellier's Écusson, bistronomic plates, tapas and organic Languedoc wines poured until around midnight.

Chez Boris

• ★ 4.2
• Steakhouse
• €€
• Écusson

Chez Boris grills Fleur d'Aubrac beef on the Esplanade in Montpellier, tartares cut to order and an onglet à l'échalote that anchors the whole card.

Faune

• ★ 4.1
• Modern French
• €€
• Écusson

Faune feeds Montpellier's MO.CO. contemporary art museum on Rue de la République, seasonal plates and Sunday brunch in the collector's-house garden.

La Maison d'Anna

• ★ 4.2
• Italian
• €€
• Écusson

La Maison d'Anna is a family trattoria on Rue des Trésoriers de France in Montpellier, orecchiette and slow ragù cooked from recipes della nonna.

Les Canons

• ★ 4.1
• French bistro
• €€
• Écusson

Les Canons pairs a 150-bottle natural wine cellar with market bistro lunches near Saint-Pierre cathedral in Montpellier, most vegetables local and organic.

Ma Première Cantine

• ★ 3.8
• French bistro
• €€
• Écusson

Ma Première Cantine keeps school-canteen nostalgia and continuous service running on Place Jean Jaurès in Montpellier, breakfast through midnight daily.

Nabab Kebab

• ★ 3.5
• Turkish
• €
• Écusson

Order The classic kebab plate, halal certified.

Nabab Kebab holds the corner between the Comédie and the station on Rue Maguelone, halal kebabs served until 01:00 for six nights of the week.

Bol Bun & Bubble

• ★ 3.6
• Vietnamese
• €
• Écusson

Order A bo bun bowl with grilled pork and nem, herbs piled high

Bol Bun & Bubble ladles bo bun bowls and bubble tea on Rue d'Alger in Montpellier, a quick Vietnamese counter between the Comédie and the station.

L'Oignon Givré

• ★ 3.6
• French bistro
• €
• Écusson

Order The all-you-can-eat salad buffet.

L'Oignon Givré has fed Montpellier students an all-you-can-eat salad buffet on Rue de l'Université for over two decades, weekday lunches only.

Mélissa Coquillages

• ★ 4.3
• Seafood
• €€
• Écusson

Order A tielle with a plate of Bouzigues oysters.

Mélissa Coquillages shucks Bouzigues oysters and warms tielles at its Halles Laissac stall in Montpellier, seafood platters eaten at the market counters.

Café de la Panacée

• ★ 4.0
• French bistro
• €€
• Écusson

Order The 16 euro lunch menu on the patio.

Café de la Panacée feeds the MO.CO. Panacée art centre from a shaded courtyard, with weekday lunch menus and evening tapas running until 00:30.

Le Pré Vert

• ★ 3.9
• French bistro
• €€
• Écusson

Order The seasonal lunch plate built from that morning's market run

Le Pré Vert cooks homely lunches and weekend brunches on Rue Sainte-Anne, a quiet room at the Arc de Triomphe end of the Montpellier old town.

Coldrip Food and Coffee

• ★ 4.4
• €€
• Écusson

Order Cold brew

Coldrip Food and Coffee anchors Montpellier's speciality-coffee scene from Rue Glaize, avocado toast, matcha pancakes and eggs Benedict beside the filters.

Café Bun

• ★ 4.2
• €
• Écusson

Order Single-origin filter

Café Bun brews named single origins like the Ethiopian Gotiti behind the opera in Montpellier, a busy coffee room with brunch plates and vegan options.

Blend

• ★ 4.1
• €
• Écusson

Order Chai latte

Blend serves croque-monsieurs, cheesecake and chai lattes on the steep medieval Rue du Bras de Fer in Montpellier, a canteen-café hybrid with a cult cookie.

Bonobo

• ★ 4.1
• €€
• Écusson

Order Latte

Bonobo stacks photogenic pancakes and eggs Benedict on Rue Saint-Guilhem, the Montpellier old town's most-queued weekend brunch room since 2017.

Auden

• ★ 3.9
• €€
• Écusson

Order Smoothie

Auden runs a flexitarian daytime kitchen on Rue en Gondeau, serving açaí bowls, salad rolls and waffles all built around vegetables rather than meat.

Napoléon Dynamite

• ★ 4.0
• €€
• Écusson

Order Filter coffee

Napoléon Dynamite pours brunch on Place de la Canourgue in Montpellier, outsized pancakes and vegetarian plates on the old town's prettiest square.

Café Solo

• ★ 4.2
• €
• Écusson

Order House-roast espresso

Café Solo has roasted its own beans on Rue Saint Guilhem in Montpellier since 1991, Ecuadorian and Guatemalan origins beside a hundred teas.

Le Petit Moulu

• ★ 4.1
• €€
• Écusson

Order Single-origin filter

Le Petit Moulu brews single-origin coffee with pancakes, brioche perdue and waffles on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier's student quarter.

Cafés Bibal

• ★ 4.0
• €
• Écusson

Order House-roast espresso

Cafés Bibal is Montpellier's heritage roaster, trading since 1955, and this Rue Jacques Coeur boutique pours and sells the house roasts in the old town.

Station Sucrée

• ★ 4.0
• €
• Écusson

Order Café con leche

Station Sucrée pours coffee beside its Argentine alfajores and brookies on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier, a sweet stop in the student streets.

Pain Brut

• ★ 4.5
• €
• Écusson

Order Le Brut sourdough loaf

Pain Brut bakes organic sourdough behind the opera in Montpellier, rye, spelt and Khorasan loaves plus gluten-free rice and buckwheat breads.

Des Rêves et du Pain

• ★ 4.6
• €
• Écusson

Order Wood-oven levain loaf

Des Rêves et du Pain bakes naturally leavened loaves in an 18th-century wood-fired oven on Rue Eugène Lisbonne, in the middle of the Montpellier Ecusson.

Maison Bonnaire

• ★ 4.3
• €€
• Écusson

Order Éclairs

Maison Bonnaire runs a bakery and pastry counter at 45 Rue Saint-Guilhem in Montpellier, with its chocolate shop further up the same street at number 62.

Maison L'Œuf

• ★ 4.2
• €€
• Écusson

Order Seasonal fruit entremets

Maison L'Œuf bakes organic breads, quiches and sculptural fruit pastries on Rue du Faubourg de la Saunerie in Montpellier, open every day of the week.

Clara Jung

• ★ 4.3
• €€
• Écusson

Order Kanelbullar

Clara Jung bakes Tropéziennes, Paris-Brest and kanelbullar at her pastry shop on Rue du Palais des Guilhem, a quiet lane in the Montpellier old town.

Boulangerie Daveloza

• ★ 4.0
• €
• Écusson

Order Butter-free viennoiserie

Boulangerie Daveloza bakes certified organic levain breads on Rue du Grand Saint-Jean in Montpellier, with cereal loaves and gluten-free options.

Les Demoiselles de Montpellier

• ★ 4.1
• €€

Les Demoiselles de Montpellier bakes an entirely vegan and gluten-free counter on Rue de la Carbonnerie, cakes and gateaux alongside a short lunch card.

Le Clandestin

• ★ 4.2
• €€
• Écusson

Le Clandestin hides on Rue de la Valfère in Montpellier with forty-odd Languedoc wines, Iberian charcuterie boards and a happy hour from 18:00.

La Part des Anges

• ★ 4.0
• €€
• Écusson

La Part des Anges pours wine and plates focaccias on Rue Collot, an evening bar where the dishes run €7 to €17 and the doors stay open to 01:00.

Esprit Vin

• ★ 4.0
• €€

Esprit Vin works a small Ecusson square, Place Chabaneau, as a brasserie and wine bar with a Languedoc list poured by the glass alongside the plates.

L'Élytre

• ★ 4.3
• €€€

L'Élytre is the bar inside the Hôtel Richer de Belleval on Place de la Canourgue, a hushed beetle-green room shared with Jardin des Sens upstairs.

Pousse Pas Mémé dans la Vigne

• ★ 4.0
• €€

Pousse Pas Mémé dans la Vigne pours small-grower Languedoc on Rue des Étuves behind the Opéra Comédie, with tapas and a second address at Castries.

Plein Sud

• ★ 4.4
• €

Plein Sud pours an all-natural list in a vaulted stone room on Rue de la Monnaie in Montpellier's Ecusson, with organic farm tapas cut to match the bottles.

Le Comptoir Cévenol

• ★ 3.9
• €€

Le Comptoir Cévenol is bar and épicerie at once by the Saint-Roch church in Montpellier's Ecusson, pouring organic wine beside Cévennes produce.

Aperture

• ★ 4.5
• Cocktail bar
• €€
• Écusson

Drink Rotating creations by Julien Escot

Aperture is Julien Escot's pared-back cocktail room on Rue des Trésoriers de la Bourse in Montpellier, opened in December 2018 with wine alongside.

Rhum Runner

• ★ 4.1
• Rum bar
• €€
• Écusson

Drink Zombie

Rhum Runner lines up agricultural and aged rums from Martinique to Japan on Rue Jules Latreilhe in Montpellier, house arrangés behind the bar.

Bonsoir Cocktail Bar

• ★ 4.0
• Cocktail bar
• €€
• Écusson

Drink Suco di Amor

Bonsoir Cocktail Bar mixes the Suco di Amor and Divino Spritz on Rue de la Croix d'Or in Montpellier, world-leaning tapas beside the drinks list.

Les BerThoM

• ★ 3.9
• Beer bar
• €€
• Écusson

Drink Guest craft taps

Les BerThoM pours craft partners such as Piggy Brewing and La Débauche on Rue Boussairolles, a big beer room open every night of the week until 01:00.

Barberousse

• ★ 3.4
• Rum shooter bar
• €
• Écusson

Drink Flavoured rum shooters

Barberousse runs its pirate-themed rum shooter formula on Rue Boussairolles in Montpellier, sixty-plus flavoured rums for a loud student crowd.

Le Quatrième Tiers

• ★ 4.0
• Cocktail bar
• €€
• Écusson

Drink Seasonal house cocktails

Le Quatrième Tiers mixes seasonal cocktails in the old Tanins d'Abord room on Rue Roucher in Montpellier, an intimate stone-walled evening bar.

La Distillerie

• ★ 3.8
• Rock bar
• €€

Drink House arranged rums

La Distillerie has been the Écusson's rock bar since 2007, local craft beer and house arranged rums under a permanent rock-photography hang.

KVB

• ★ 4.0
• Street food
• €
• Écusson

Try Kevab, the plant-based kebab

KVB reworks the kebab in full plant-based form on Rue de l'Aiguillerie in Montpellier, marinated seitan Kevabs, falafel bowls and vegan nuggets.

Vegorilla

• ★ 4.0
• Street food
• €€
• Écusson

Try Vegan burgers and mozzarella sticks

Vegorilla veganises fast food on Rue du Puits des Esquilles, seasonal vegan burgers and sides served as a proper sit-down meal rather than takeaway.

Li's Raviolis Chinois

• ★ 4.0
• Chinese
• €
• Écusson

Try Steamed and grilled Chinese dumplings

Li's Raviolis Chinois folds pork, cabbage and mushroom dumplings on Rue de l'Université in Montpellier, steamed or grilled, ten to a plate for 6.60 euros.

Fabiano Focaccia

• ★ 3.9
• Italian
• €
• Écusson

Try Filled focaccia sandwiches from 8.90 euros

Fabiano Focaccia layers Italian imports into ten focaccia builds on Rue Saint Guilhem in Montpellier, daytime sandwiches with a small terrace.

Halles Castellane

• ★ 4.5
• Écusson

Halles Castellane is Montpellier's iron-and-glass central market on Rue de la Loge, 25 stalls of cheese, oysters and produce a minute from the Comédie.

Halles Laissac

• ★ 4.6
• Écusson

Halles Laissac packs 24 traders under a rebuilt rotunda on Place Alexandre Laissac in Montpellier, oyster and tielle counters pouring wine into the evening.