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Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Toulouse from the En Primeur Club guide.

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Toulouse, France
Toulouse has 7 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide and 8 Michelin stars in total, with the clearest concentration in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes. That central zone also holds several of the city’s strongest wine programs. Across our guide, 9 venues have exceptional wine programs, and that gives the city a clear structure for wine-minded dining. Modern French bistros, tasting menus, and a few wine-led rooms shape the rest of the scene. Les Chalets / Bayard / Belfort / Saint-Aubin / Dupuy adds a second central cluster, while Saint-Cyprien and a handful of outer neighbourhoods bring useful alternatives. Toulouse’s top tables lean into modern French cooking, and the city’s better lists range from extensive cellars to natural wine and sommelier-led service. Py-r, Michel Sarran, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, and SEPT show the range at the starred end.

Wine-led rooms

These places put the list, the pour, and the pace of the meal at the centre.

  • Le 5 Wine Bar

    Le 5 Wine Bar in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes is built around self-service Enomatic dispensers and small pours of premium wine. The room pairs that format with small plates and tasting menus, and its World of Fine Wine 3-Star Accreditation marks it as a serious stop for glass-led drinking.

  • Solides

    Solides in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes combines modern French bistro cooking with an exceptional wine program. Natural wine and an extensive list sit alongside tasting menu, à la carte, and set menu formats, with a kitchen built around short supply chain sourcing.

  • Assoiffés

    Assoiffés in Les Chalets / Bayard / Belfort / Saint-Aubin / Dupuy is a French bistro with natural wines and an exceptional wine program. The list includes 600 natural wine references, and the room serves 100% homemade seasonal bistro cuisine.

Tasting menus and chef-driven meals

Tasting-menu dining in Toulouse is strongest in the centre, with a few focused rooms outside it.

  • Py-r

    Py-r in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes holds 2 Michelin stars and offers a tasting menu in a historic vaulted setting. The exceptional wine program and extensive list support an avant-garde sequence of more than 30 dishes, giving the city its most decorated creative kitchen in our guide.

  • L'Écorce

    L'Écorce in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes holds 1 Michelin star and runs a tasting menu in an intimate open-kitchen room. Its wine list, around 20 covers, and precise seasonal cooking keep the focus on carefully sourced vegetables, seaweed, and Aveyron veal in two preparations.

  • Acte 2 Yannick Delpech

    Acte 2 Yannick Delpech in Bonhoure / Guilheméry / Château de l'Hers / Limayrac / Côte Pavée holds 1 Michelin star and offers a tasting menu in a house setting. The wine list and natural wines sit with thematic dinners and a compact, chef-driven format.

Michelin-starred dining

Toulouse has 7 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, with 4 in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes and the rest spread across other neighbourhoods.

  • Michel Sarran

    Michel Sarran in Amidonniers / Compans-Caffarelli / Brouardel holds 1 Michelin star and pairs tasting menu and prix fixe formats with an exceptional wine program. The extensive list and sommelier-led service sit alongside modern French gastronomy with Mediterranean and Southwest influences.

  • Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra

    Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes holds 1 Michelin star and offers tasting menu and à la carte formats. Its exceptional wine program and extensive list support modern French fine dining in a glass-covered courtyard.

  • SEPT

    SEPT in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes holds 1 Michelin star and offers a tasting menu with a wine list. The extensive wine list and natural wines sit with modern French urban gastronomy.

Planning FAQ

Which neighbourhood has the strongest concentration of serious wine and dining rooms in Toulouse?

Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes has the strongest concentration in our guide. It holds most of the city’s starred rooms, several exceptional wine programs, and tasting-menu dining at Py-r, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, Solides, and Le 5 Wine Bar.

How many Michelin-starred restaurants are in Toulouse in your guide?

Toulouse has 7 Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide, with 8 Michelin stars in total. Four of those starred restaurants sit in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes, while the others are in Amidonniers / Compans-Caffarelli / Brouardel, Les Chalets / Bayard / Belfort / Saint-Aubin / Dupuy, and Bonhoure / Guilheméry / Château de l'Hers / Limayrac / Côte Pavée.

Where should I look for tasting menus in Toulouse?

Start in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes, where Py-r, L'Écorce, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, and SEPT all offer tasting menus. Acte 2 Yannick Delpech and Michel Sarran extend that format into other parts of the city.

Which places have the strongest wine programs in Toulouse?

Py-r, Michel Sarran, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, Solides, and Le 5 Wine Bar all have exceptional wine programs in our guide. Le 5 Wine Bar is built around wine by the glass, while Py-r and Solides also include extensive wine lists and, in Solides, natural wine.

By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards

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Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra restaurant in Toulouse

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Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra

Les Jardins de l'Opéra sits at 1 Place du Capitole, where Stéphane Tournié, trained under Philippe Legendre at Taillevent and Christian Constant at the Crillon, serves a Southwest-rooted modern menu at the €€€ price point. A glass-roofed courtyard and parquet dining room make it one of Toulouse's most architecturally distinctive addresses. Open Tuesday through Saturday for lunch and dinner; closed Sunday and Monday.

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Cartouches restaurant in Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Cartouches

Cartouches holds consecutive Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition (2024 and 2025) for its farm-to-table cooking in Toulouse's Canal du Midi quarter, priced at the €€ tier where quality-to-value ratios are hardest to sustain. It sits in a different competitive bracket than the city's starred tasting-menu rooms, offering market-led plates without the formality or the invoice that comes with them. For Toulouse, that combination is less common than it should be.

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Le Cénacle restaurant in Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Le Cénacle

Occupying a 16th-century room on Rue des Couteliers, Le Cénacle sits at the serious end of Toulouse's modern dining scene without requiring the spend of its starred neighbours. A Michelin Plate holder in 2025, the kitchen sources organic vegetables from Gers, lamb from Béarn, and line-caught fish, applying Mediterranean-inflected technique to ingredients that arrive with clear provenance. Lunch offers particularly considered value in the city at this price tier.

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Selected entries from the current guide for Toulouse.

Les Capitouls Toulouse Centre - Handwritten Collection hotel in Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Les Capitouls Toulouse Centre - Handwritten Collection

Selected by the Michelin Guide's 2025 hotel recommendations, Les Capitouls Toulouse Centre occupies a considered position on the Allée Jean Jaurès, placing guests within walking distance of the city's historic core. Part of the Handwritten Collection, the property sits in Toulouse's mid-to-upper hotel tier, offering a character-led alternative to the city's larger chain footprint. A sound base for both the Capitole district and the broader Occitanie region.

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Mama Shelter Toulouse hotel in Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Mama Shelter Toulouse

Few hotel brands are quite as successful at combining an instantly recognizable house style with careful tailoring to its locations. Mama Shelter Toulouse is full of subtle references to the architecture of this rose-colored Renaissance city; it’s more full, of course, of street art and youth-culture references, as well as some knowing nods to Toulouse’s thriving rugby fandom. The facade of an old cinema conceals some 120 rooms, which range in no-nonsense style from size Small on up to XXL. The in-room comforts at all sizes are low-key where it doesn’t much matter, and luxurious where it does, specifically in the beds; movies are free, and the bath products in the oversized rain showers are organic. There’s a 20-seat CineMama cinema in the basement, a tribute to the building’s original use, and there’s plentiful public space besides, the main restaurant, decorated with greenery, is an Argentine grill with an Occitan accent, while the bar features table football, DJ sets, live music, and festive cocktails. The leading space, however, just might be the rooftop, serving wine and tapas under striped umbrellas with a far-ranging view of the Ville Rose.

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Selected entries from the current guide for Toulouse.

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