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Boulangerie Marais
This bakery sells scrumptious croissants, chocolate squares, éclairs, fruit tarts and much much more.
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Café de la Gare
This café is at the Gare Maritime where cruise ships dock. It serves quiche and salad-type dishes for lunch and makes excellent coffees. In good weather, tables are set outside the restaurant on a paved terrace surrounded by flowers and greenery.
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Café Shop
This takeaway shop near Musée de la Ville has a salad bar you can choose from for salads or filled sandwiches. It has fresh white or wholemeal bread for sandwiches and also does panini and burgers.
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Casa Italia
This Italian restaurant run by an Italian lady is tucked away in a small shopping centre. It opens onto a courtyard surrounded by plants. The pizzas and pasta dishes are simply delicious. It also serves Italian wine. Bookings are recommended as it is often full. It's about 1km from the beach at Anse Vata, on the right just after the Shell station, which is on the left as you head away from the beach. It's off a car park.
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Coco Glacé
At Coco Glacé are ice creams and sorbets, and also crepes and waffles. You can relax at a table on the deck area under the trees and watch people coming and going in Place des Cocotiers.
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Couleur Café
This café in Galerie Commerciale Port Plaisance isn't cheap but its panini , quiches and salads are excellent. It also makes freshly squeezed fruit cocktails.
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Huong-Xua Express
This extremely popular takeaway specialises in Vietnamese cuisine. Dishes are priced by weight so what you pay depends on how hungry you are. The Huong-Xua restaurant next door is open for both lunch and dinner.
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La Bastide
This hill-top restaurant on Mont Venus has views over baie de l'Orphelinat and tables set around a swimming pool. It specialises in seafood.
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La Case
This café has tables arranged on a covered deck surrounded by leafy plants. It is situated across from baie de l'Orphelinat. It is one of the few places you can get a good cappuccino. It does quiche, salads and panini as well as larger meat and prawn dishes for lunch and dinner.
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La Chaumière
La Chaumière is a spacious restaurant serving gastronomic French cuisine including foie gras and beef and fish dishes. Its traditionally French dishes have a hint of the Pacific flavour. Part of the restaurant is in an old colonial building, with interior steps leading down to an adjacent room. The décor is warm and uncluttered.
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La Crêperie Bretonne
This cosy family restaurant in Trianon is decorated in typical Breton style. It serves galettes (thin, savoury pancakes) and crepes. You can sit outdoors on a covered veranda but if you choose to sit indoors you can watch the chef preparing the crepes. The service is fast and friendly and the crepes are deliciously filling. It's just off route de l'Anse Vata.
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La Fiesta Chez Alban
Chez Alban has a warm Basque atmosphere from the French-Spanish border region and a touch of rugby mania. It does good pizzas.
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La Kasbah
This restaurant serves generous helpings of spicy Moroccan dishes. The Moroccan décor gives it a warm atmosphere.
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La Pointe des Antilles
This restaurant specialises in tasty West Indian cuisine. The atmosphere is authentic and helpings are generous.
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La Sorbetière in Anse Vata
La Sorbetière serves the same food as the baie de Citron shop, does ice creams and sorbets.
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La Sorbetière in Baie des Citrons
For ice creams or sorbets go to La Sorbetière which also does toasted sandwiches, crepes and waffles.
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Le 1881
This restaurant at Nouville is housed in a building that dates back to the penitentiary days. There is an outdoor marquee-covered dining area over the water. Le 1881 specialises in seafood. At lunch the restaurant serves standard French cuisine; the dinner menu is gourmet.
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Le Bilboquet Village
This popular choice for lunch is in Le Village shopping complex. It does salads and French cuisine.
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Le Bistrot du Boucher
This restaurant specialises in 'Caledonian' cuisine. It serves venison, pork and seafood dishes.
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Le Bout du Monde
This relaxed restaurant and bar has a large wooden deck overlooking Port Moselle marina. On weekdays it does a lunch salad buffet.
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Le Faré
By the beach at Hôtel Le Meridien, the Faré serves barbecue lunches. It looks out over Anse Vata and is a relaxing spot for lunch.
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Le Galapagos
The Galapagos does a scrumptious cheese buffet on Thursday evenings. The buffet includes a dozen or so French cheeses, a variety of fresh breads, a tossed green salad and grapes. Help yourself to as much as you like, select a good French red from the wine list and 'bon appétit'. The buffet opens at . The restaurant often has live music as well. It's upstairs at the squash courts in baie de l'Orphelinat - look for the building with a turtle on the green wall. It's wise to book in advance.
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Le Roof
Everything about this top-notch gastronomic restaurant is impeccable: the food, service and setting. It's on the jetty over the water at Anse Vata. Don't be too disappointed if you can't have a table by the deck as you can watch the tropical fish in the two large aquariums inside the restaurant.
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Le Salvatore
A small, cosy restaurant serving French and Italian cuisine.
