Best Restaurants for Wine Lovers in Marseille
This list holds twelve restaurants with an exceptional wine program. Le Petit Nice in Endoume and AM par Alexandre Mazzia in Saint Giniez hold three Michelin stars, each with an extensive list and a tasting menu. La Mercerie in Noailles adds natural wine and a sommelier to modern French bistro cooking. Mijoba in Vauban cooks with Andean and Provençal ingredients. L'Épuisette in Endoume pairs Mediterranean seafood with a sommelier-led extensive list.
Chicoulon in Opera keeps over 800 French wines with daily bistronomic dishes. Regain in La Conception has a 200-bottle living list and a Star Wine List award. Restaurant Ciccino in Palais De Justice also holds a Star Wine List award. La Côte de Bœuf in Opera serves wood-fired meats. La Cave de Baille in La Conception hosts winemaker events. La Parenthèse in Bonneveine pours natural wines exclusively from French vignerons, and Livingston in Thiers is an orange wine bar.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants with a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award or a deep wine list, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
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.
Chicoulon
Deep wine list
Chicoulon occupies a measured corner of the 13006 arrondissement on Rue Grignan, where the quieter residential stretch of Marseille's sixth district keeps it at a remove from the tourist circuit. The address places it in a neighborhood that has gradually attracted a more considered dining crowd, drawn by proximity to the city's covered market culture and the produce networks that feed serious kitchens across Provence.
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 Cave de Baille
Deep wine list
On Boulevard Baille in Marseille's 5th arrondissement, La Cave de Baille operates within a city that takes its food seriously and its wine even more so. The address places it away from the tourist-facing port and inside a residential quarter where locals set the room's temperature. For visitors tracking Marseille's neighbourhood dining scene rather than its Michelin circuit, this is a useful coordinate.
La Côte de Bœuf
Deep wine list
On Cours Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves, Marseille's most animated evening square, La Côte de Bœuf occupies the kind of address where the city comes to sit outside and eat seriously. The name signals the kitchen's focus: beef, prepared with the directness that defines French brasserie culture at its most confident. It sits in a different register from Marseille's seafood-led fine dining tier, offering a meat-centred alternative on a square more accustomed to bouillabaisse and rosé.
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.
La Parenthèse
Deep wine list
La Parenthèse occupies a quiet impasse in Marseille's 13th arrondissement, positioning it closer to the city's residential south than its tourist-facing waterfront. Where Marseille's better-known dining addresses lean on harbour views and bouillabaisse tradition, this address operates in a different register, drawing a neighbourhood-anchored clientele to a setting that rewards those who look past the obvious postcard options.
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 (€€€€).
Livingston
Deep wine list
Livingston belongs to Marseille’s small-plate, produce-led dining current rather than the city’s formal dining lane. The useful way to read it is through sourcing and tempo: a dinner-only address where the meal is likely to make more sense beside Marseille’s market culture than against tasting-menu ceremony.
Mijoba
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Boulevard Vauban, Mijoba sits in the mid-tier of Marseille's modern cuisine circuit at the €€ price point, a bracket that has grown considerably more serious over the past two years. Consecutive Michelin Plate acknowledgements in 2024 and 2025 confirm a kitchen operating with consistent technical intent, making it a reliable reference point for the city's evolving dining scene.
Regain
Deep wine list
Regain holds a Michelin Plate and a Star Wine List White Star recognition, sitting in the €€ price tier on Rue Saint-Pierre in Marseille's 5th arrondissement. It represents the city's growing appetite for serious modern cuisine at accessible price points, drawing, a signal of consistent execution rather than occasional brilliance.
Restaurant Ciccino
Deep wine list
On the Rue Paradis corridor in Marseille's 13th arrondissement, Restaurant Ciccino has earned a White Star listing on Star Wine List, signalling a wine program taken seriously enough to warrant specialist attention. The address places it squarely in a residential dining district where the city's more considered tables tend to operate quietly, away from the Vieux-Port tourist circuit. Advance planning is advisable for those with specific timing in mind.
Planning restaurants for wine lovers in Marseille
- Which restaurants on this list are Michelin-starred?
- Le Petit Nice in Endoume and AM par Alexandre Mazzia in Saint Giniez are the Michelin-starred restaurants on this list. Le Petit Nice holds three Michelin stars and a sommelier-led extensive list with a seafood tasting menu. AM par Alexandre Mazzia holds three Michelin stars, an extensive list, and small-portion tasting menus with Congolese influences. Both latest star awards are dated 2026.
- Which restaurants on this list hold a Star Wine List or Falstaff Wine Bar recognition?
- Regain in La Conception and Restaurant Ciccino in Palais De Justice hold Star Wine List awards on this list, and Falstaff names Chicoulon in Opera and La Cave de Baille in La Conception, all for 2026. Regain has an exceptional living list with vegetable-forward cooking. Ciccino's list is extensive and sommelier-led. Chicoulon and La Cave de Baille keep extensive lists.
- Which restaurants on this list pour natural wine?
- La Mercerie in Noailles, La Parenthèse in Bonneveine, and Livingston in Thiers are the restaurants on this list that pour natural wine. La Mercerie pairs it with a sommelier, a tasting menu, and a la carte modern French bistro cooking, and its latest Michelin award is a Plate. La Parenthèse pours natural wines exclusively from French vignerons, with small plates. Livingston is an orange wine bar with rotating chef residencies and charcoal-grilled small plates.
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