Metz Restaurants

  1. Canada'Venture

    So you're tired of French food, eh? How about brochettes de bison grillées (grilled bison brochettes) washed down with a Canadian beer, eh? At this themed eatery, the cuisine, like the décor - snow shoes, a wooden canoe, stuffed racoons and even a cigar store Indian straight out of 'Seinfeld' - are the Canadophilic owners' heartfelt, if cringe-inducing, homage to the Great White North.

    Read more about Canada'Venture

  2. El Theatris

    Serves traditional French cuisine with 'echoes from ailleurs' (elsewhere). The neoclassical décor mirrors the architecture outside. The candles are calming and so is the music, which ranges from Glenn Miller to light opera.

    Read more about El Theatris

  3. L'Étude

    Hugely popular with local cognoscenti, this eatery is a quintessentially French mixture of the intellectual (the walls are lined with books) and the gastronomic (French, of course) - a coming together of the mind and the stomach, if you will. There's live music (jazz, chansons, Roma - the website has the schedule) from about on Friday and Saturday (except in July and August; reservations recommended).

    Read more about L'Étude

  4. La Baraka

    Serves Metz' finest Algerian Berber couscous, tajines and brick (a fried pastry filled with egg, capers and either chopped meat or tuna).

    Read more about La Baraka

  5. Restaurant Thierry

    Brings culinary insights from the Caribbean Basin, Louisiana and Vietnam together with French gastronomic methods and traditions to create avant-garde cuisine 'without taboos'. The bistro ambience is both chic and relaxed. Often full.

    Read more about Restaurant Thierry