Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Metz from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Metz
Yozora serves French-Japanese omakase, Timilìa serves a pasta tasting menu and Derrière offers surprise tasting menus of seasonal French cooking.
Yozora in Centre Pompidou-Metz serves French-Japanese omakase through tasting menu and omakase formats. It has a 2026 Michelin 1 Star, after Michelin Plate and Michelin 1 Star recognition in earlier years, and its wine list includes an extensive wine list.
Timilìa in Centre-ville serves a pasta tasting menu and holds a 2026 Michelin 1 Star. The pasta is made at the restaurant using ancient Sicilian grains, including Timilìa. Its cooking draws on southern and central Italy, and its wine list includes an extensive wine list.
Derrière in centre historique serves seasonal French bistro cooking through surprise tasting menus and a la carte dishes. The dining room has a living room setting. It holds Michelin Plate recognition for 2026, and its wine list includes an extensive wine list.
Wine lists in Metz are concentrated in central dining rooms, where bistros, grills and modern French kitchens all keep the wine program active.
L'Hédoniste in centre-ville serves French brasserie chic cooking a la carte, in a contemporary setting on a pedestrian street. The kitchen works in a market-inspired, course-by-course style with seasonal local products. The wine program includes an extensive wine list.
La Réserve in centre-ville brings modern French bistro cooking together with an extensive wine list. It holds Michelin Plate recognition for 2025 and 2026, and it is set in a 16th-century garrison storeroom inside Hotel La Citadelle.
Gueuleton - Metz in centre historique is a French grill and wine bar with an extensive wine list. It serves a la carte and small plates, and it focuses on exceptional meats in a convivial setting.
Metz has 2 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. They are Yozora in Centre Pompidou-Metz and Timilìa in Centre-ville, and both hold 2026 Michelin 1 Star recognition. Yozora serves French-Japanese omakase in tasting menu and omakase formats inside the Centre Pompidou-Metz building designed by Shigeru Ban. Timilìa serves a pasta tasting menu that uses ancient Sicilian grains, Italian ingredients and a French method.
Centre-ville and centre historique hold several of Metz’s central dining rooms. Centre Pompidou-Metz and Place de Chambre also appear in the city’s top picks, with Yozora, Timilìa, La Lanterne, La Réserve and Derrière among them.
Tasting menus appear at Yozora in Centre Pompidou-Metz, Timilìa in Centre-ville, Derrière in centre historique, and La Lanterne in Place de Chambre. Derrière also serves surprise tasting menus of seasonal ingredients in a living room-like setting. La Lanterne serves its tasting menus as modern French cooking with Jura influences and seasonal local ingredients.
L'Hédoniste in centre-ville, La Réserve in centre-ville, La Lanterne in Place de Chambre, Yozora in Centre Pompidou-Metz and Gueuleton - Metz in centre historique all have wine lists and an extensive wine list. La Lanterne's program is also sommelier-led, and Gueuleton - Metz serves a la carte dishes and small plates.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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The only Italian restaurant in Metz to hold a Michelin Plate recognition in 2025, Timilìa occupies a specific niche in the city's dining scene: southern and central Italian cooking at a price point that sits above the casual trattoria tier but below the full tasting-menu bracket. It has built a loyal following in a city better known for Franco-German cuisine than Italian regionalism.
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Yozora sits inside Centre Pompidou-Metz, one of France's most architecturally charged museum buildings, and earned its first Michelin star in 2025 after a Michelin Plate recognition the year prior. The creative menu operates at the €€€€ tier, placing it at the summit of Metz's fine dining bracket. It is the city's most credentialed restaurant by current award standing.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised Italian restaurant on Rue Mazelle, 83 Restaurant sits at the accessible end of Metz's dining scene without sacrificing kitchen seriousness. Two consecutive Michelin Plate acknowledgements (2024 and 2025) place it in a small peer group of Italian addresses in northeastern France that earn independent editorial attention. Priced at the €€ tier, it offers genuine value relative to the local Italian competition.
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The kitchen works within the French modern idiom without the tasting-menu formality of higher-bracket neighbours. It offers a credible entry point into Metz's evolving restaurant scene at an accessible price point.
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Le Jardin de Bellevue holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition for 2024 and 2025, placing it among the more consistent addresses in Metz's modern cuisine tier. At a €€€ price point, it sits between the city's casual bistros and its higher-end creative tables, offering considered cooking at a level that justifies the step up.
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La Lanterne holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, placing it in Metz's mid-to-upper tier of modern cuisine addresses. Positioned on Place de Chambre in the city's historic core, it draws, a consistency signal that carries weight in a city where the dining scene is still finding its ceiling. The format is formal enough to reward attention, casual enough to suit a long midweek dinner.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised modern cuisine address on Avenue Ney, La Réserve sits in Metz's mid-range dining tier at €€ pricing, accessible without being casual.
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Tucked into the Rue du Grand Wad in Metz's historic core, 2'Moiselles occupies a stretch of the city where the old town's sandstone character runs up against a genuinely evolving restaurant scene. The address puts it within the same walkable radius as several of Metz's more ambitious tables, making it a natural stop for anyone tracing the city's current dining momentum.
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Bouillon Batignolles occupies a distinct position in Metz's mid-market dining scene, where the bouillon tradition, hearty, sourced, unfussy, meets a city still finding its contemporary restaurant identity.
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Located at 7 Rue du Grand Cerf in central Metz, Cantino sits within a city that has quietly developed one of northeastern France's more interesting mid-market dining scenes. The address places it in the historic core, close to the cathedral quarter and the Moselle riverfront. Specific menu details and booking information are best confirmed directly with the venue.
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On a quiet street in central Metz, COUPOLA occupies a position in the city's mid-to-upper dining tier where the pace of a meal is treated as seriously as the food on the plate. The address at 11 Rue du Faisan places it within reach of the cathedral quarter, and the format rewards guests who arrive without urgency. Metz's dining scene is small enough that a room like this carries weight across the whole city.
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Gueuleton in Metz occupies a city where Lorraine's larder, Franco-German borderland produce, and a reviving restaurant scene converge. Located at 3 Rue de la Fontaine, it sits within a dining neighbourhood that rewards visitors who plan around seasonal availability. The address draws a local crowd alongside travellers passing through a city more visited since the Centre Pompidou-Metz opened in 2010.
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A fixture on Rue de la Tête d'Or, Kung Pao occupies a specific corner of Metz's casual dining scene where Chinese-influenced cooking draws a steady local following. The address suggests familiarity over occasion, the kind of place regulars return to without needing a reason. For visitors to the Moselle, it sits a short distance from the city centre and the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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Ramen in Metz arrives without the usual fanfare: Kyôdaï Ramen at 9 Rue Sainte-Marie occupies a city better known for Michelin-tracked French kitchens and Alsatian-inflected brasseries than Japanese noodle culture. For a city of Metz's size, a dedicated ramen address signals a maturing dining scene willing to hold space for formats that live outside the regional tradition.
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On the Place de Chambre in central Metz, L'Assiette et le Verre sits within one of Lorraine's most architecturally layered city centres, where the French table tradition runs from market-sourced bistro cooking up through regional fine dining. The restaurant occupies a mid-market position in a city that has quietly built a diverse restaurant scene around its medieval core and the gravitational pull of the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
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On a quiet residential street in central Metz, L'Épicurien occupies a position characteristic of the city's mid-tier dining scene: neither the theatrical ambition of its creative peers nor the casual simplicity of neighbourhood bistros. The address on Rue Vigne Saint-Avold places it squarely in the fabric of a city whose food culture has historically punched below its architectural weight, making it a telling measure of where Metz dining stands today.
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On Rue de la Fontaine in the heart of Metz, L'Hédoniste sits within a city whose dining scene has been quietly outpacing its regional reputation for years. The name alone signals intent: this is a table where the meal is structured as an experience in sequence rather than a collection of dishes.
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La Cantoche occupies a spot on Boulevard de Trèves in Metz, sitting within a city that has developed a quietly serious dining scene anchored by the Centre Pompidou-Metz effect and a growing number of neighbourhood restaurants worth tracking. For visitors orienting themselves in the Lorraine region, it represents one address to cross-reference against the broader local picture before making a reservation.
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Metz rewards the kind of unhurried meal that a room like this encourages, sitting in a dining scene where French regional cooking and cross-border Lorraine identity pull at each other in interesting ways. For visitors comparing options across the city, the address alone locates it at the quieter, residential edge of the centre.
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On Place Saint-Simplice, one of Metz's more quietly composed squares, La Goulue occupies a position that places it squarely within the city's mid-range dining tradition: French in spirit, grounded in produce, and operating without the fanfare of a destination address. For visitors working through Metz's restaurant scene, it represents the kind of neighbourhood fixture that sustains a city's culinary credibility between the louder entries on any shortlist.
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La Station occupies a quiet impasse in central Metz, positioning itself within a city that has spent the past decade building a credible restaurant culture around the Centre Pompidou-Metz effect. The address at 5 Impasse Saint-Jean places it steps from the medieval core, where the daytime and evening dining rhythms of Lorraine's most visited city play out at noticeably different tempos.
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Le P'tit Frontalier sits on Rue des Parmentiers in central Metz, a city where French and German culinary traditions have intersected for centuries. The address places it within reach of Metz's modest but growing restaurant scene, which spans creative formats at venues like Yozora and more accessible neighbourhood options. Visitors looking for a local address rather than a destination table should note what the name itself signals: frontier cooking, small scale, regional roots.
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Set along one of Metz's storied central streets, Les Arts et Métiers occupies a compelling position within a city whose dining scene has grown quietly ambitious over the past decade. The address at 2 Bis Rue Gambetta places it within easy reach of the cathedral quarter, where the local appetite for cooking that bridges regional tradition and modern technique has found fertile ground.
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On Rue du Coetlosquet in central Metz, Les Copains d'Abord represents the convivial mid-register dining that anchors the city's neighbourhood restaurant culture, the kind of table where the ritual of the meal matters as much as what arrives on the plate. It sits in a Metz dining scene that runs from casual bistro to destination-level modern cuisine, occupying the dependable, sociable middle ground that most cities quietly depend on.
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A Michelin Selected property set in the quiet communes bordering Metz, Domaine de la Résidence occupies the kind of domain-style address that Lorraine's architectural heritage naturally produces: substantial, grounded in the landscape, and positioned well outside the city's tourist circuits. For travellers treating Metz as a serious destination rather than a stopover, it offers a credible alternative to the central hotel stock.
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Positioned directly opposite Metz's Gothic cathedral, Hôtel de la Cathédrale occupies among the more architecturally loaded addresses in Lorraine. The property sits within the city's medieval core, where centuries of Frankish, German, and French influence converge in stone. For travellers treating Metz as a serious destination rather than a transit stop, this is the address that places you inside the city's architectural argument.
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