Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Saint-Émilion from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Saint-Émilion
Saint-Émilion has 3 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, all built around serious wine programs and structured dining.
La Table de Pavie in Saint-Emilion holds 2 Michelin stars and offers tasting menu and prix fixe formats. Its exceptional, sommelier-led wine program matches the Modern Bordelaise Fine Dining cooking, which blends vegetal-forward ideas with terroir influences. The room is inside Hôtel de Pavie.
Les Belles Perdrix de Troplong Mondot in Saint-Émilion holds 1 Michelin star and serves tasting menu and prix fixe. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list and sommelier-led service. The cuisine is Modern French Gastronomic. The restaurant is set in a historic Bordeaux château with panoramic vineyard views. It has a 6,800 m² permaculture garden that directly inspires the chef’s refined seasonal cuisine.
Logis de la Cadène in Saint-Emilion holds 1 Michelin star and serves a tasting menu. The cuisine is Michelin-Starred French Fine Dining, delicate and terroir-driven, in a historic 1848 logis. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list and depth in Bordeaux reds. Its cheeses rank with the strongest in the appellation. The same property runs as a small hotel.
These are the clearest places to plan around a set progression, with tasting menus spread through the village and the vineyards.
L'Huitrier Pie in Saint-Emilion offers tasting menu, prix fixe, and a la carte. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list and sommelier-led service. Cooking is Contemporary French Fine Dining, using seafood and seasonal produce of the Atlantic Southwest. It holds a Michelin Plate (2026). The room is a historic stone house.
Château Grand Barrail in Saint-Emilion works with tasting menu, a la carte, and prix fixe formats. Its exceptional wine program sits alongside Modern French Fine Dining in a 19th-century château property. The dining room looks over terraced gardens and vineyard vistas.
Atelier de Candale in Saint-Laurent-des-Combes / Saint-Émilion vineyards offers tasting menu, set menu, and a la carte. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list, sommelier-led service, and corkage allowed. The cooking is seasonal French cuisine. It is integrated into the Château de Candale wine estate, and the large terrace has sweeping views over the Saint-Émilion vineyards and the Dordogne valley.
Vignobles et Châteaux Wine Bar, L'Envers du Décor, and Lard et Bouchon show the town’s wine-first range, from a dedicated cellar bar to bistro rooms with serious lists.
Vignobles et Châteaux Wine Bar in Saint-Emilion is the city’s dedicated wine-bar stop in our guide. It has over 1800 wine references, expert-led tastings, and the city’s Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. Star Wine List recognised it in 2026.
L'Envers du Décor in Old Town Saint-Émilion pairs classic French bistro cooking with an extensive wine list. It also carries a wine list and a Relais Chateaux Award. The zinc counter and courtyard terrace give the room a clear wine-bar feel.
Lard et Bouchon in Saint-Émilion is a traditional French bistro with an exceptional wine program. The list is extensive and sommelier-led, with a regional wine selection, and the formats are a la carte and set menu. The dining room is an intimate 14th-century wine cellar. Market-driven bistro cooking uses pork, duck fat, and local charcuterie from the Gascon larder.
These places show how closely Saint-Émilion’s wine country setting shapes the meal in the room.
Hotel Grand Barrail in Saint-Emilion serves Modern French Gastronomic cooking with an exceptional wine program. The setting is a neo-Romantic château with Moorish décor and vineyard views, and the formats include a la carte and prix fixe. It sits at the edge of the vineyards.
Le Clos du Roy in Saint-Emilion village serves Modern French Gastronomic cooking. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list, and the format is a la carte. Chef Nikhola Lavie-Cambot uses seasonal local products for innovative gastronomic cooking. It is a stone building in the UNESCO-listed medieval village.
Lard et Bouchon in Saint-Émilion serves Traditional French Bistro cooking in an intimate 14th-century wine cellar dining room. The wine program is exceptional, with an extensive list, sommelier-led service, and a regional wine selection. Formats are a la carte and set menu. Market-driven cooking uses pork, duck fat, and local charcuterie from the Gascon larder.
Saint-Emilion has the strongest concentration of serious wine dining in our guide. Most of the key restaurants and the dedicated wine bar sit there, with Old Town Saint-Émilion adding a classic bistro and Saint-Laurent-des-Combes / Saint-Émilion vineyards providing the main outlying table.
There are 3 Michelin-starred restaurants in our Saint-Émilion guide, with 4 Michelin stars in total. La Table de Pavie in Saint-Emilion has Michelin 2 Stars (2026). Les Belles Perdrix de Troplong Mondot in Saint-Émilion has Michelin 1 Star (2026). Logis de la Cadène in Saint-Emilion has Michelin 1 Star (2026).
Tasting menus cluster in Saint-Emilion itself, with another clear option in Saint-Laurent-des-Combes / Saint-Émilion vineyards. The main names are La Table de Pavie, Les Belles Perdrix de Troplong Mondot, Logis de la Cadène, L'Huitrier Pie, Château Grand Barrail, and Atelier de Candale.
Vignobles et Châteaux Wine Bar holds the Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence. The dated award is 2026, and it is the only Wine Spectator award in our guide. The bar is in Saint-Emilion, in the medieval center, with an exceptional wine program, over 1800 wine references, and expert-led tastings.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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La Table de Pavie elevates Southwest French terroir to two-Michelin-starred heights in Saint-Émilion, where chef Yannick Alléno's contemporary interpretations of Bordeaux traditions unfold against panoramic vineyard views. This ultra-premium destination within Hôtel de Pavie showcases Aquitaine's leading ingredients through innovative techniques and expert Bordeaux wine pairings.
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Set within the estate of one of Saint-Émilion's classified grand cru châteaux, Les Belles Perdrix de Troplong Mondot holds a Michelin star. Chef David Charrier's cooking is shaped by the seasons and anchored to the wines of the appellation, making it one of the clearest expressions of what château dining in Bordeaux can be when kitchen and cellar are genuinely aligned.
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Operating from a building that dates to 1848 on Saint-Emilion's Place du Marché au Bois, Logis de la Cadène holds a Michelin star and a Notable designation for cuisine that draws heavily on estate-grown produce. The wine cellar runs deep on Bordeaux reds, and the cheese selection is among the strongest in the appellation. It also functions as a small hotel, making it one of the few addresses in town where table and room share the same provenance.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on one of Saint-Émilion's medieval lanes, L'Huitrier Pie brings modern technique to the seafood and seasonal produce of the Atlantic Southwest. Chef James Gaag operates at the €€€ tier, a notch below the town's starred tables yet consistently rated 4.8 across nearly 500 reviews. For a wine-country town better known for its Merlot than its kitchens, it represents a serious culinary option.
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Château Grand Barrail brings consecutive Michelin Plate recognition to Saint-Émilion's hotel-restaurant circuit, sitting at the €€€ tier where quality signals are clear but the room for ambition is wider than at the starred tables nearby. Set within a 19th-century château property on the Route de Libourne, the kitchen works in the Modern Cuisine register against one of the Gironde's most wine-saturated backdrops.
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For visitors seeking a grounded alternative to the town's château-linked fine-dining rooms, this is where the local register holds its own alongside serious wine country cooking.
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A Michelin Plate holder sitting at the €€ price point, Le Tertre offers modern cuisine in the heart of Saint-Émilion's medieval village. For visitors who want serious cooking without the €€€€ tariff, it earns serious consideration.
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On a narrow cobbled street in the heart of Saint-Émilion, Vignobles et Châteaux Wine Bar occupies a position that few wine destinations in France can match: a dedicated wine list operation inside the world's most concentrated appellation. Recognised by Star Wine List in 2026, the bar sits at the intersection of serious wine curation and the kind of unhurried afternoon drinking that defines the region at its best.
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Atelier de Candale fits St Emilion’s restaurant culture at its most grounded: regional cooking read through vineyard country rather than urban performance. The useful lens here is sourcing, because in this part of Bordeaux the table is shaped by market produce, local meat, river fish, and the constant presence of wine estates around the medieval town.
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Hotel Grand Barrail sits on the Route de Libourne at the edge of Saint-Émilion's vineyards, a nineteenth-century château property that functions as both a hotel and a dining destination within one of Bordeaux's most celebrated wine appellations. The setting shapes the meal as much as the kitchen does, placing guests inside the working geography of premier cru country before a single glass is poured.
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On Rue Guadet in the heart of Saint-Émilion, Lard et Bouchon occupies the casual end of a dining town that otherwise skews formal and wine-forward. The kitchen draws on the Gascon larder, pork, duck fat, local charcuterie, and places itself firmly in the bistro tradition at a price point well below the village's top tables. For visitors who want to eat like the region rather than perform a tasting menu, it answers a real need.
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Le Clos du Roy occupies a stone address on Rue de la Petite Fontaine in the heart of Saint-Émilion's UNESCO-listed medieval village, placing it directly within one of Bordeaux's most concentrated fine-dining corridors. Positioned alongside peers like Logis de la Cadène and Les Belles Perdrix, it draws visitors who pair serious wine itineraries with table reservations. Booking ahead is advisable, particularly during the en primeur and harvest seasons.
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At 5 Place du Clocher, Hôtel de Pavie occupies among the more precise addresses in the Bordeaux wine country: the medieval centre of Saint-Émilion, whose UNESCO-recognised vineyards lie within walking distance of the hotel's panoramic terrace. With 21 rooms, two Michelin stars in the restaurant, and a Michelin Key awarded in 2024, it sits in a narrow tier of small French hotels where serious food and serious wine geography converge.
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The house operates around a slow-life philosophy: table d'hôtes dinners draw on the hotel's own garden and the wines of Saint-Émilion and Castillon, while a spa, indoor pool, and rambling grounds absorb the rest of the day. Rooms from $342 per night.
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A nine-room family-run inn occupying a historic house in the UNESCO-listed centre of Saint-Émilion, Logis de la Cadène has operated since 1848. Its Michelin-starred restaurant is a long-standing fixture of the village dining scene, and the property received a Michelin 1 Key in 2024. Rooms are named for dates significant to the owning family, with interiors that balance contemporary design against the building's considerable age. Rates from $249.
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Recognised by Gault & Millau as an Exceptional Hotel (5 points, 2025), Château Hôtel Spa Grand-Barrail sits on the Route de Libourne at the edge of Saint-Émilion's appellation. The property occupies a 19th-century château with a full spa and dining programme, placing it among the more architecturally distinctive château-hotel conversions in the Bordeaux region.
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A Michelin Selected property set among the vineyards of Saint-Émilion, Le Relais de Franc Mayne sits directly within the appellation, close to the limestone plateau that defines the Right Bank's most celebrated terroir. The address places guests inside the working wine country rather than in the medieval village itself, making it a considered choice for those whose visit is oriented around the vineyards as much as the town.
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The hotel wing of Château Troplong Mondot sits at the upper end of Saint-Émilion's accommodation tier, selected by the Michelin Guide Hotels 2025. Set within a working grand cru classé estate on the limestone plateau above the medieval town, it positions guests inside one of Bordeaux's most storied wine properties rather than merely near it. For visitors whose trip is organised around the Right Bank, this is one direct way to sleep inside the appellation.
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Château Cheval Blanc has produced wine from its Saint-Émilion estate since 1821, making it one of the oldest continuously operating domaines on the Right Bank.
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One of Saint-Émilion's most closely watched estates, Château Angélus earned its Premier Grand Cru Classé 'A' status through decades of precise work on the limestone and clay soils of the appellation's western slope. Under Hubert de Boüard de Laforest, the estate's Merlot-dominant blends have become a reference point for Right Bank power and structure.
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One of Saint-Émilion's oldest continuously producing estates, Château Canon has operated from its limestone plateau position since 1770. The estate's approach to the plateau's clay-limestone soils anchors it in the regenerative viticulture conversation that is reshaping the appellation's upper tier.
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One of Saint-Émilion's oldest documented estates, Château Figeac holds a first vintage dating to 1776 and sits on a gravel plateau at the western edge of the appellation, placing it in a distinct terroir tier from the limestone-dominant Right Bank norm. Guided by winemaker Frédéric Faye and.
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The estate occupies one of the appellation's most geologically complex sites, where clay, limestone, and sandy soils converge across a single slope. For serious collectors, it sits at the upper tier of Right Bank Bordeaux.
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Situated at Les Verdiannes on the appellation's limestone plateau, it represents the micro-négociant wave that reshaped Saint-Émilion's premium tier in the late 1990s. Allocation volumes are limited and demand from collector markets runs consistently ahead of supply.
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Château Canon-la-Gaffelière sits on the limestone and clay soils below Saint-Émilion's plateau, where the von Neipperg family has built one of the appellation's most closely watched estates. Visits are best timed to the cooler months, when the cellar programme is in full swing and the estate's barrel work is most visible.
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Château La Mondotte sits on a narrow limestone terrace in Saint-Laurent-des-Combes, producing one of Saint-Emilion's most allocation-driven right-bank Merlot blends under winemaker Stephan von Neipperg. Visits require planning well ahead of the harvest season.
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Château Bélair-Monange occupies a defining position on Saint-Émilion's limestone plateau, where the geology that distinguishes the appellation's upper tier is most legible in the glass. Visitors come to understand what the côte can produce at its most concentrated.
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Château Beauséjour Duffau-Lagarrosse belongs to the limestone-driven side of Saint-Émilion, where slope, exposure, and old Merlot-Cabernet Franc plantings matter more than visitor theatre. The 6.8-hectare Premier Grand Cru Classé estate has been tied to the Duffau-Lagarrosse family since 1847, with a quiet, vineyard-led format focused on serious red Bordeaux.
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Château Clos Fourtet is a Saint-Émilion estate producing Merlot-dominant wines from limestone plateau vineyards on the plateau calcaire. Its position along the ancient town walls places it among the appellation's most historically rooted estates, operating within Saint-Émilion's Premier Grand Cru Classé tier alongside a compact peer group of plateau-focused producers.
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Château Larcis Ducasse sits on the limestone-clay slopes east of Saint-Émilion's medieval centre. The estate's position within Saint-Émilion's most demanding appellation tier places it among the appellation's compact group of high-calibre producers. For serious Bordeaux collectors, it represents one of the Right Bank's more quietly regarded addresses.
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Château Le Tertre Roteboeuf occupies a quiet plateau east of Saint-Émilion's medieval core, where winemaker François Mitjavile has spent decades producing some of the appellation's most discussed right-bank Merlot. Visiting requires planning: allocation access is limited and demand consistently outpaces supply.
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Château Pavie Macquin sits among Saint-Émilion's upper-tier Right Bank estates. Located at 1 Peygenestau on the plateau adjacent to the appellation's most celebrated vineyards, it represents the kind of address that rewards planning well in advance. Visitors arriving with context, on the classification system, the terroir, and the booking process, get considerably more from the experience.
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The estate occupies the quieter fringes of the appellation, where the competitive set thins and terroir distinctions between plateau and hillside become most legible. For collectors tracking right-bank Bordeaux with serious recognition, it warrants close attention.
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Château Valandraud is one of Saint-Émilion's defining garage wine estates, the property that effectively established the garagiste movement on the Right Bank. Winemaker Jean-Luc Thunevin produces Merlot-dominant wines from parcels on the limestone-clay plateau east of the town. The estate sits at 1589 route de Jappeloup in Saint-Étienne-de-Lisse.
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The property draws a loyal following of collectors who return for the structured, age-worthy reds that characterise the appellation's plateau terroir. Plan visits around harvest season for the fullest expression of the estate's working rhythm.
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Operating since 1779, Château Coutet is one of Saint-Émilion's oldest wine estates, guided today by winemaker Aline Baly and. The property sits within a appellation where limestone and clay soils have shaped Merlot-dominant blends for over two centuries, offering visitors a direct encounter with the long arc of right-bank Bordeaux winemaking.
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Château Beau-Séjour Bécot gives Saint-Émilion visitors a limestone-plateau reading of right-bank Bordeaux: Merlot-led red wine, Cabernet Franc structure, underground cellars, and vineyard-facing calm. The estate’s Premier Grand Cru Classé B status, 17 hectares of vines, and 1969 Bécot family chapter make it a serious stop for travellers interested in terroir rather than spectacle.
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Château Berliquet belongs to the limestone-and-clay conversation that defines serious Saint-Émilion: Merlot-led, Cabernet Franc-supported, and increasingly precise under Chanel’s Vignobles team. Founded in 1768, the estate is compelling less as a grand gesture than as a study in plateau terroir, small-scale production, and the modern tightening of Right Bank Bordeaux.
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Château Jean Faure reads Saint-Émilion through Cabernet Franc rather than Merlot dominance: 18 continuous hectares of deep clay, certified organic in 2017 and biodynamic by Biodyvin in 2023. The estate’s appointment-led tastings suit visitors who want terroir, farming, and Right Bank structure explained with more precision than theatre.
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Château Amélisse is a quiet Saint-Émilion Grand Cru AOC estate for drinkers who care about Right Bank structure without the theatre of a grand château circuit. Its focus sits on Merlot-led red wine, mid-term cellaring, and a traditional Libournais register: balanced claret, cellar context, and a small-scale visit by reservation.
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Château Balestard La Tonnelle frames Saint-Émilion through altitude, limestone, and centuries of right-bank continuity. The draw is not spectacle for its own sake, but the combination of a 15th-century tower, a 400 m² panoramic terrace, sustainable viticulture, and a Grand Cru Classé red built around Merlot, Cabernet Franc, and Cabernet Sauvignon.
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