Restaurants in Montpellier
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La Girafe
You’re indeed greeted by a tall model giraffe as you enter. Dine in the intimate downstairs area with its ox-blood-red decor and original artwork, or upstairs beneath the cross arches of this former chapel. Chef Pascal Schmitt gets his ingredients fresh from the market and nothing but nothing comes from the freezer. Try the heavenly breast of chicken rolled around prawns with fresh coriander and satay sauce.
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Les Bains de Montpellier
This former public bathhouse is now a highly recommended restaurant. Tables are set around the old perimeter bathrooms where you can almost hear the gurgle and slurp of long-emptied tubs. For something light, try the assiette des Bains, a platter with salads, pasta, garnishes, vegetables and a hint of meat. If you’re hungrier, select from its prime quality fish dishes.
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Tamarillos
‘A cuisine of fruit and flowers’ is Tamarillos’ motto and, indeed, all dishes, sweet or savoury, have fruit as an ingredient or main element. Chef Philippe Chapon is double champion de France de dessert and taught a young Gordon Ramsay his pastry cooking. Go for a full meal or nibble on a lunchtime salad (€14 to €19) or special (€15).
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Roule Ma Poule
Like most places in the area, it pulls in a mainly student crowd with its decent, uncomplicated fare. Happy-go-lucky and with rapid service, it has a large terrace that spills over the square and does a filling midday formule rapide (similar to a menu but allows choice of whichever two of three courses you want.
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Restaurant Verdi
This restaurant does delicious Italian fare, especially fish dishes, in an Italian ambience (walls are plastered with posters relating to the eponymous Verdi). It has an outstanding wine list. Two doors away, Pizzeria Aïda serves pasta, pizzas and salads from the same kitchen and in a more informal setting.
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Pizzeria Aïda
This restaurant does delicious Italian fare, especially fish dishes, in an Italian ambience (walls are plastered with posters relating to the eponymous Verdi). It has an outstanding wine list. Two doors away, Pizzeria Aïda serves pasta, pizzas and salads from the same kitchen and in a more informal setting.
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Caves Jean Jaurès
Scan this attractive restaurant's range of tasty dishes on the chalkboard that the waiter props against a nearby table. A glass of wine? Select from the bottles of the day on the bar counter. Rather more? Pick from the shelves; every bottle has its price marked and the range is superlative.
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Welcomedia
This exciting new bar and bistro could figure just as well within the Drinking section. In the southwest corner of the Opéra-Comédie theatre, it's smart, stylish, does great regional wines by the glass and has a terrace that lords it over the square.
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Insensé
Restaurant of Musée Fabre, Insensé is just as contemporary and tasteful as you’d expect from such a venue. The dominant shade is black: tables, chairs, floor tiles – even the pepper pots. The innovative cuisine is altogether more colourful.
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Le Petit Jardin
The Little Garden is just that: a restaurant offering imaginative cuisine, its big bay windows overlooking a shady, fairy-tale greenness at the rear. The menu, with its hints of Asian fusion, is short, simple yet with plenty of variety.
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Restaurant Cerdan
This much garlanded family restaurant carries a good list of local wines and offers five different menus, each rich in local fare with a leavening of dishes from Normandy, Mme Cerdan's home region.
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Mesdames Messieurs
As much wine bar as restaurant, this hip new venue serves mainly organic produce and has a selection of at least 15 wines by the glass. Its copious Sunday brunch (€23) will set you up for the whole day.
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La Diligence
Dine beneath attractive vaults and arches at this former cloth warehouse. Savour the creative cuisine, impressive wine cellar and elegant rear patio overlooked by a gallery of the Hôtel de Varennes.
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Tripti Kulai
Barrel-vaulted and cosy, this popular vegetarian restaurant and tea house stands out for its juices and the originality of many of its dishes, culled from world cuisine.
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Le Ban des Gourmands
Jacques and Catherine Delépine serve delicious classic cuisine at this appealing restaurant, a favourite of locals in the know, tucked away south of the train station.
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Chez Fels
Just off place de la Comédie, this hole-in-the-wall sandwich shop does the crunchiest of baby baguettes, stuffed with salad and Alsatian goodies.
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