Dijon Restaurants

  1. Café Chez Nous

    A quintessentially French - and often crowded - bar du coin (neighbourhood bar), down a tiny alleyway from the covered market, that serves lunches generally made with organic ingredients.

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  2. Hostellerie du Chapeau Rouge

    A formal restaurant with one Michelin star featuring bold, creative French gastronomy based on traditional ingredients and top-quality local produce. Specialities include red tuna and salmon.

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  3. La Dame d'Aquitaine

    Excellent Burgundian and southwestern French cuisine served under the bays of a 13th-century cellar. Options include coq au vin rouge and magret de canard aux baies de cassis (duck's breast with blackcurrant sauce). The Middle Ages at their most cultured.

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  4. La Mère Folle

    A rather camp French restaurant that bills itself as a resto extravagant and serves unusual variations on traditional dishes. The result: dishes like magret de canard au miel, thym et mirabelles (fillet of duck with honey, thyme and cherry plums. Crammed with character, from the baroque wall mirrors to the pineapple-shaped table lamps.

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  5. La Petite Marche

    An organic restaurant with seven types of salad and lots of vegetarian options (as well as meat and fish) - a good choice if you're tired of heavy Burgundian classics. Upstairs from the organic food shop.

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  7. Le Chabrot

    A relaxed wine bar and restaurant whose Burgundian and French cooking, candle-lit tables and rustic décor make it popular with gourmets and wine-lovers alike. Among the 200 vintages on the wine list: a lone Australian white.

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  8. Le Petit Roi de la Lune

    Le Petit Roi de la Lune 'The Little King of the Moon' serves French cuisine that - explains the chef - has been revisitée, rearrangée et decalée (revisited, rearranged and shifted), resulting in dishes such as the hugely popular Camembert frit avec gelée de mûre (Camembert wrapped in bread crumbs, fried, baked and then served with blackberry jelly).

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  9. Osteria Enoteca Italiana

    An intimate ristorante that's proud of its authentic, traditional-Italian pasta, meat and fish dishes, some made with white Italian truffles (in season), and its scrumptious home-made deserts (think tiramisú ). The décor hints at Venice.

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