Dining Guide
France Dining
Restaurant reviews, resort dining, and round-ups from France.
Restaurant Reviews
Where to Eat in France
French Brasserie · Four Seasons Hotel Megève
Brasserie Benjamin
The hotel's signature restaurant, celebrating the richness of French cuisine through refined dishes with fine local ingredients.
Japanese-Nikkei · Four Seasons Hotel Megève
Kaito
A Japanese restaurant specializing in Nikkei cuisine, blending Japanese technique with Peruvian flavors and Alpine ingredients.
French Fine Dining · Les Airelles, Courchevel
Pierre Gagnaire pour les Airelles
Chef Pierre Gagnaire's mountain outpost — a Michelin-starred, ingredient-led tasting menu served in an intimate chalet dining room.
Savoyard · Les Airelles, Courchevel
Coin Savoyard
A rustic, wood-beamed dining room serving generous Savoyard classics for long, convivial après-ski lunches.
French Fine Dining · Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle
Alain Ducasse au Château de Versailles
Alain Ducasse's restaurant inside the Pavillon Dufour, serving a refined French menu within sight of the Château's gilded gates.
Brasserie · Airelles Château de Versailles, Le Grand Contrôle
Ore
Ducasse's all-day brasserie beneath the Château's restored 18th-century glass roof — breakfast through dinner with a view of the gardens.
Mediterranean Fine Dining · Airelles Château de la Messardière
La Console
The hotel's signature restaurant, set on a terrace overlooking the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, serving bright, herb-forward Mediterranean cooking.
Poolside Café · Airelles Château de la Messardière
Le Pavillon
A relaxed poolside spot for salads, grilled fish, and rosé in the shade of umbrella pines.
French Fine Dining · Cheval Blanc Courchevel
1947 à Cheval Blanc
Yannick Alléno's three-Michelin-starred dining room — a small, candlelit space built around his modernist French cuisine.
Alpine Grill · Cheval Blanc Courchevel
Le Grill Alpin
A cozy restaurant designed by Peter Marino, serving grilled meats and mountain produce from dawn to dusk.
French Fine Dining · Cheval Blanc Paris
Plénitude
Arnaud Donckele's three-Michelin-starred dining room, set beneath a glass dome overlooking the Seine — sauce-driven French haute cuisine at its most theatrical.
Brasserie · Cheval Blanc Paris
Le Tout-Paris
A rooftop brasserie with a wraparound terrace facing the Pont Neuf — Parisian classics with one of the best views in the city.
Japanese · Aman Le Mélézin
Nama
Aman's signature Japanese restaurant, serving sushi and robata-grilled dishes in a pared-back, wood-lined dining room.
Japanese Grill · Aman Le Mélézin
Yakiniku
A terrace grill blending Japanese culinary tradition with a refined tableside experience, premium cuts cooked over glowing embers.
French Fine Dining · Mandarin Oriental, Paris
Sur Mesure par Thierry Marx
Thierry Marx's two-Michelin-starred dining room, built around precise, texture-driven tasting menus in a cocoon-like white space.
French · Mandarin Oriental, Paris
Camélia
An all-day restaurant overlooking the hotel's interior garden, serving lighter French dishes from breakfast through dinner.
Italian Fine Dining · Bvlgari Hotel Paris
Il Ristorante - Niko Romito
Chef Niko Romito's Michelin-starred Italian restaurant, pairing a pared-back menu with one of Paris's most striking marble dining rooms.
Bar & Lounge · Bvlgari Hotel Paris
Bvlgari Bar
A glamorous, jewel-toned bar just off the lobby — one of the most talked-about new hotel bars in Paris.
French Grill · Rosewood Hôtel de Crillon
Nonos & Comestibles par Paul Pairet
Chef Paul Pairet's reinvention of the French grill inside the Crillon, reconnecting with the genre once glorified by grand hotels.
All-Day Dining & Afternoon Tea · Rosewood Hôtel de Crillon
Jardin d'Hiver
A glassed winter garden off the Crillon's main lobby, serving all-day dining and an afternoon tea by Head Pastry Chef Matthieu Carlin.
Mediterranean Fine Dining · Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc
Restaurant Eden-Roc
The legendary cliffside pavilion restaurant, set over the Mediterranean — a Cap d'Antibes institution since the 1950s.
Beach Club Grill · Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc
La Cabane
A relaxed, barefoot-chic grill at the edge of the saltwater pool, serving grilled fish and salads through the afternoon.
French Fine Dining · Le Meurice
Le Meurice Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse's two-Michelin-starred dining room inside Le Meurice, set beneath an extraordinary gilded ceiling modeled on the Salon de la Paix at Versailles.
Brasserie · Le Meurice
Le Dali
An all-day brasserie beneath a surrealist ceiling commissioned from Salvador Dalí — Parisian classics from breakfast through dinner, with one of the most unusual dining rooms in the city.
Provençal Fine Dining · Airelles Pan Deï Palais
Les Délices du Pan Deï
The hotel's intimate garden restaurant, serving a refined Provençal menu amid the jasmine-scented terraces of Saint-Tropez's most private address.
Provençal · Airelles Gordes, La Bastide
Clover Gordes
Jean-François Piège's Gordes outpost — Provençal cooking with a Paris-trained hand, served on a terrace with views across the Luberon Valley.
Alpine Fine Dining · Airelles Val d'Isère
La Grande Ourse
Airelles Val d'Isère's signature dining room — a warm, high-ceilinged chalet restaurant serving refined alpine cuisine overlooking the village and the glacier.
Japanese · Airelles Val d'Isère
Matsuhisa Val d'Isère
Nobu Matsuhisa's ski resort outpost at Airelles Val d'Isère — sushi, black cod miso, and signature Nobu dishes in a pared-back mountain setting.
French Fine Dining · Le Bristol Paris
Epicure
Chef Eric Fréchon's three-Michelin-starred dining room inside Le Bristol — a garden-facing room of extraordinary refinement, and one of the great tables of Paris.
French Brasserie · Le Bristol Paris
114 Faubourg
Le Bristol's all-day brasserie on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré — a buzzing, light-filled room serving French classics at a more accessible pace than the main dining room.
Japanese · L'Apogée Courchevel
Koori
L'Apogée's Japanese restaurant in Courchevel 1850 — sushi, yakitori, and an omakase counter that draws diners from across the resort.
French Fine Dining · Four Seasons Hotel George V
Le Cinq
Chef Christian Le Squer's three-Michelin-starred dining room inside the George V — classical French technique at the highest level, in a room that makes ceremony feel earned.
Mediterranean · Four Seasons Hotel George V
Le George
A sun-drenched Mediterranean restaurant at the George V, designed by Pierre-Yves Rochon — lighter, market-driven dishes in an all-white room that feels like the south of France in central Paris.
French Haute Cuisine · Hôtel Plaza Athénée
Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
A revolutionary three-Michelin-starred dining room in Paris where Ducasse's naturalist menu — built around fish, vegetables, and grains — has reframed what French haute cuisine can be.
Cocktail Bar · Hôtel Plaza Athénée
Le Bar du Plaza Athénée
The most fashionable bar in Paris — where the Dior-inspired cocktail menu, the Champagne trolley, and the Avenue Montaigne crowd create an atmosphere that cannot be manufactured.