Best Tasting Menus in Marseille

AM par Alexandre Mazzia

3 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

AM par Alexandre Mazzia holds three Michelin stars and scores 96 points on La Liste 2026, placing it among France's most decorated restaurants outside Paris. Operating Wednesday through Saturday from Marseille's 8th arrondissement, the restaurant represents a distinct strand of French creative cooking rooted in Mediterranean instinct rather than classical Parisian convention. Ranked 80th in Europe by Opinionated About Dining in 2025, it draws serious diners from across the continent.

Auffo

1 Michelin star

At the mouth of the Vallon des Auffes, Auffo occupies among the more dramatically positioned dining rooms in Marseille, its floor-to-ceiling windows framing the Château d'If and open Mediterranean beyond. Chef Coline Faulquier works a seafood-forward menu built on direct sourcing from the port's local fishermen, producing dishes that play deliberately on temperature and texture contrasts rather than classical French register.

Belle de Mars

1 Michelin star

Behind wrought-iron railings on Rue de Forbin, Belle de Mars delivers Mediterranean-inflected modern cuisine at a price point that makes it one of the more accessible serious tables in Marseille. Michel Marini and Kim-Mai Bui, both alumni of kitchens including William Ledeuil and Gérald Passedat, hold a 2024 Michelin Plate and cook with herbs they forage themselves, producing dishes that are precise without being showy.

Bucado

Bucado brings Brazilian cooking into Marseille’s restaurant mix, a city better known for Provençal seafood, North African spice routes, and Mediterranean small plates. Read it through staples rather than spectacle: corn, cassava, beans, rice, citrus, smoke, and chile form a useful lens for understanding how Brazilian food translates on the French south coast.

Ekume

A Michelin Plate-recognised Mediterranean table on Rue Sainte in Marseille's 7th arrondissement, Ekume sits in the mid-price tier where the city's most interesting cooking happens. Chef Craig Wilmer works within a tradition that draws directly from the surrounding terroir, earning.

Grenat

At 57 rue Grignan, Grenat operates across two distinct registers: a garnet-walled bistro up front and a herb-planted courtyard behind it, both running on a fire-driven kitchen that sources short. The open-flame counter is where Marseille's current appetite for bold, smoke-forward cooking finds one of its more considered expressions. Solo diners at the pass watch the kitchen work live around the fire.

Kin

Kin holds a Michelin Plate (2025), operating from a single fortnightly-changing set menu that draws from Congolese culinary traditions. Chef Hugues Mbenda's cooking, manioc crisps, dibi-sauced beef onglet, puffed thiéré, positions Kin as one of the few African fine-dining addresses in France's second city. A lunchtime sibling, Libala, runs a shorter cross-cultural street food format.

L'Épuisette

Deep wine list

L'Épuisette occupies one of Marseille's most architecturally arresting dining positions, set into the rocky inlet of the Vallon des Auffes, the city's last working fishermen's cove. The address places it squarely within Marseille's serious seafood tradition, drawing comparisons to the Michelin-starred coastal tables that define the French Mediterranean's upper dining tier.

La Mercerie

Deep wine list

La Mercerie sits at the more accessible end of Marseille's serious dining tier, holding a Michelin Plate and consecutive Opinionated About Dining recognitions through 2025. Chef Marie-Aude Rose leads a kitchen producing modern cuisine that reads as Mediterranean in instinct without leaning on Provençal cliché. At the €€€ price point, it competes in a bracket where execution and room coherence matter as much as the plate.

Le Petit Nice

3 Michelin stars · Deep wine list

Le Petit Nice holds three Michelin stars and a 95-point La Liste score (2026), placing it among France's most decorated seafood addresses. Chef Gérald Passédat's kitchen draws entirely from Mediterranean waters, served in a Relais & Châteaux property on Marseille's Corniche with direct sightlines over the sea. Booking well in advance is standard practice at this price tier (€€€€).

Les Trois Forts

Les Trois Forts is a Modern Cuisine restaurant at 36 boulevard Charles-Livon in Marseille. Its seventh-floor setting has a panoramic view over the port, and Michelin lists it at the €€€ price tier.

Ourea

Holding a Michelin Plate for two consecutive years (2024 and 2025), Ourea operates at the mid-to-upper tier of Marseille's modern cuisine scene, where the city's Mediterranean character meets contemporary French technique.

Prémices

On Rue Beauvau in the heart of Marseille's first arrondissement, Prémices holds two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) and a White Star recognition from Star Wine List, placing it among the city's more credible mid-tier modern cuisine addresses.For Marseille diners who want considered cooking without the price point of the city's top tables, it earns its place.

Tabi - Ippei Uemura

A Michelin Plate-recognised Japanese Contemporary address on Marseille's Corniche Kennedy waterfront, Tabi brings a distinct non-French culinary register to a city whose fine dining scene runs heavily on Mediterranean tradition.

Une Table, au Sud

1 Michelin star

Une Table, au Sud Marseille showcases Chef Ludovic Turac's Michelin-starred Mediterranean cuisine from its dramatic Old Port location, where Armenian-influenced tasting menus celebrate Marseille's multicultural heritage through locally sourced Provençal ingredients and panoramic views of Notre-Dame de la Garde.