Arles Restaurants

  1. Au Brin de Thym

    Market-fresh produce is made to look like a work of art at this pretty place fronted by a lavender and white awning and damask-clothed tables. The Provençal menu is a great way to sample creative dishes laced in local olive oil, and there's a strong wine list.

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  2. Aux Petits Singes

    Little visitors will be delighted by this adorable 'children's restaurant' where they can sit at tiny tables, play with toys and games, and enjoy their own special menu of a drink, main dish and a 'surprise' (chocolate or similar). Grown-ups' choices range from charcuterie (cold meats) to tartes, salads and soup. Everything - including the cakes - is home-made.

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  3. Café la Nuit

    The Roman place du Forum, shaded by outstretched plane trees, turns into a giant dining table at lunch and dinner during summer. It's also where you'll find Café la Nuit, thought to be the café painted by Van Gogh in his Café Terrace at Night (1888). Painted bright yellow to re-create the effect used by Van Gogh to indicate bright night-time lights, it's invariably packed with tourists dining in front of its famous façade.

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  4. Corazón

    This funky, contemporary space in a recessed arcade combines a contemporary art gallery with elongated pink and red dining areas highlighted by quirky-chic lighting and furnishings. Modern Mediterranean fare includes warm goat's cheese drizzled with lavender honey.

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  5. Jardin des Arts

    Opening out to a leafy cloister courtyard adjoining the Espace Van Gogh, this fresh new establishment is popular with locals for light but luscious lunches, and is a hot spot on Saturday nights when it also swings its doors open for dinner. During July and August it doubles as an afternoon salon de thé from to ; and artisan ice creams tempt passers-by.

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  7. L'Atelier

    Ex-La Chassagnette legend Jean-Luc Rabanel has now restrung his Michelin star in Arles' historic heart, where you can savour superbly crafted dishes like crumbed pigs' trotters and cuttlefish with fennel and coriander amid a striking interior of black tables and red flowers. Children's menus are available at lunch only.

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  8. La Mule Blanche

    Jazz is often performed at the piano in the 'White Mule's' domed interior, but the hottest tables are on the pavement terrace, which is the prettiest in town and gets packed in fine weather.

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  9. Le Bistrot Arlésien

    A few doors down from Café la Nuit, Le Bistrot Arlésien is the locals' pick of places on place du Forum.

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  10. Le Cilantro

    Arles' most buzzing tables are a result of the homecoming of Arlésian chef Jêrome Laurant, cooking accomplished dishes like saddle of lamb in almond oil with mash and braised carrots. Children can be catered for by request.

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  11. Lou Marques

    Gastronomic treats at the Hôtel Jules César's sumptuous restaurant, within a former 17th-century Carmelite convent, include a fine variety of foie gras, a St-Jacques risotto with red Camargue rice, and a Grand Marnier soufflé served with cool chocolate sorbet.

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