Annecy Restaurants

  1. Ah! La Belle Excuse

    Ah! The Beautiful Excuse is a funky, red and green wood-clad bistro with a cosy retro interior and unbeatable wooden-decking summer terrace. What's more, the ensemble sits in an attractive interior courtyard. Grilled meats, salads and parmentiers (mashed potato baked with different toppings) are menu mainstays.

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  2. Au Fidèle Berger

    This traditional tearoom and cake shop with fantastic old-world feel is the spot for a sweet breakfast (around €8 .50), cakes and chocolates. Look for the old wood panelling façade.

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  3. Auberge du Père Bise

    A big name on Lake Annecy's chic shores, this one is substantially more affordable in the form of a fab Sunday brunch that is a worth-every-last-cent feast. It's run by four generations of Bise since 1901; female chef Sophie Bise currently heads up the kitchen.

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  4. Aux Delices d'Enzo

    What you see is what you get at this typically French restaurant-bar where the menu is handwritten and the Italian pasta home-made. Find it tucked under the arched colonnades of rue du Pâquier.

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  5. Brasserie des Européens

    This popular brasserie with an authentic 1920s ambience is known for the mountains of mussels it cooks up, not to mention seasonal oysters, seafood platters (climaxing with a plateau royale for four at around €180 ) and 10 types of tartare.

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  7. Chez Barnabé

    Cartoons on the walls set the tone of this trendy and innovative quick-eat joint where healthier-than-healthy 'fast food' - salads, hot dishes, fresh juices, cookies and so on - is religiously baked on the premises. Vegetarians and non-pork-eaters are well catered for.

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  8. food market

    In the Vieille Ville, there is a food market .

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  9. La Maison de Marc Veyrat

    Small fortune needed aside, snagging a table is tough at Marc Veyrat's lakeside 'Maison Bleue', a powder-blue house with a handful of extraordinary hotel rooms up top, 1km east of the centre. Cuisine is highly creative and flamboyant - very much 'once-tried-never-forgotten' calibre. Come winter Veyrat moves to Megève.

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  10. Le Chalet

    Well on the tourist trail it might be, but this waterside restaurant decked out to resemble a cosy old Savoyard chalet (think wood everywhere) does have a certain charm. Cuisine is cheese-fuelled.

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  11. Le Grenier du Père Jules

    Checked tablecloths, mountain-dried sausages hung up to dry and a menu heaving with diet-busting dishes like fondue, tartiflette (sliced potatoes oven-baked in cream and reblochon cheese) and other cheese-heavy Savoyard dishes create an overwhelmingly rustic atmosphere at Father Jules' busy attic.

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  13. Les Écuries du Pré Carré

    In the same charming courtyard, the Stables ooze theatre. Cuisine is imaginative, as is the décor - a mix of wood, '70s retro and glasses that don't match. Upstairs, La Suite - billowing white cloth, leather armchairs and pink lighting - is evening only; last orders are at midnight.

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