Best Tasting Menus in Toulouse
Toulouse’s tasting-menu scene is led by starred rooms in Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes and a handful of focused restaurants elsewhere. Py-r, L'Écorce, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, and SEPT anchor the centre, while Acte 2 Yannick Delpech and Les Planeurs extend the format into other neighbourhoods. Solides, Cécile, and Hortùs add more tasting-menu choices in the core, each with a distinct wine profile. Several of these rooms also bring wine programs to the table, including natural wine at SEPT and Acte 2 Yannick Delpech.
How this list is chosen: Restaurants serving a tasting menu or omakase, listed alphabetically. Updated October 8, 2026.
Acte 2 Yannick Delpech
1 Michelin star
Acte 2 Yannick Delpech earned its first Michelin star in 2025, marking a clear shift in where Toulouse's most ambitious modern cooking is happening. Chef Yannick Delpech brings a documented track record in the city's fine dining circuit to a focused, chef-driven format at 1 Rue Paneboeuf. For the price tier, it sits in a bracket that rewards advance planning.
Au Pois Gourmand
Au Pois Gourmand holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 at its address on Rue Emile Heybrard, sitting in the €€€ tier of Toulouse's modern cuisine scene. The format rewards guests who approach the meal at a measured pace.
Cécile
A Michelin Plate holder on Place des Carmes, Cécile sits at the more accessible end of Toulouse's serious dining tier, modern cuisine executed with enough technical care to earn consecutive Michelin recognition in 2024 and 2025, at a price point that undercuts the city's starred competition by a significant margin.
Gram's
Gram's holds a Michelin Plate for the second consecutive year in 2025, placing it among Toulouse's mid-range modern cuisine addresses worth serious attention. For a city with genuine Michelin depth, Gram's occupies an accessible but credible tier.
Hortùs
The restaurant occupies the modern cuisine tier in a city whose dining scene extends from casual bistros through to starred creative tables.
L'Écorce
1 Michelin star
A Michelin-recognised address on rue de l'Esquile, L'Écorce holds around 20 covers arranged facing an open kitchen, where the cooking moves between carefully sourced vegetables, seaweed, and Aveyron veal in two preparations. The format is intimate and precise, with a focused wine list built around well-chosen labels and glass pairings. For contemporary French cooking in Toulouse at this scale, it sits in a peer group that rewards forward planning.
La Verrière
La Verrière occupies a quietly distinctive address on Rue Joutx Aigues in central Toulouse, placing it within a city whose dining scene has shifted steadily toward refined modern cooking without abandoning its southwest French roots. With Toulouse's broader table anchored by cassoulet tradition and duck-fat pragmatism, venues that operate in a different register, lighter, more technique-driven, occupy a specific and growing niche here.
Le 5 Wine Bar
Deep wine list
Awarded a 3-Star Accreditation by the World of Fine Wine Awards, Le 5 Wine Bar on Rue de la Bourse occupies a specific niche in Toulouse's drinking culture: a venue where the glass leads and the table follows. In a city better known for its Michelin-rated kitchens, this wine-forward address offers a different kind of evening, paced by the bottle rather than the course.
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.
Les Planeurs
Deep wine list
Among Toulouse's mid-range farm-to-table addresses, Les Planeurs on Boulevard des Minimes has earned consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, signalling consistent kitchen standards at a price point well below the city's top creative tables.It's a reliable choice for a considered meal without the ceremony of a full tasting-menu occasion.
Les Têtes d'Ail
On a busy Toulouse shopping street near Place des Carmes, Les Têtes d'Ail earns its Michelin Plate through market-driven bistronomic cooking rooted in southwest France. The kitchen rotates with the seasons, sourcing locally and keeping prices honest, particularly at lunch..
Les Volets Rouges
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue Vélane, Les Volets Rouges occupies the accessible end of Toulouse's modern cuisine spectrum, a €€ price point that sits well below the city's starred tier without sacrificing kitchen ambition. It has built a loyal local following that the neighbourhood's more formal competitors rarely achieve at this price.
M by Mo BACHIR
On a quiet side street in central Toulouse, M by Mo BACHIR at 8 Rue Mage sits within a city whose restaurant scene has grown considerably more ambitious over the past decade. The address places it in walking distance of the city's most serious dining rooms, and the name signals a chef-driven format in a market where personality-led restaurants have carved out the upper tier of the local scene.
Mas de Dardagna
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on the southern fringe of Toulouse, Mas de Dardagna sits within the tradition of French farmhouse cooking that the city's outer quartiers have long sustained.
Michel Sarran
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
Among the few fine dining addresses in southwest France to hold both a Michelin star and membership in Les Grandes Tables du Monde, Michel Sarran occupies a distinct position in Toulouse's creative dining tier. The restaurant draws a loyal clientele who return for cooking that bridges southern French produce with disciplined technical craft. Reservations are tightest on Friday lunches and Tuesday evenings.
Py-r
2 Michelin stars · Deep wine list
Toulouse's most decorated creative kitchen, Py-r holds two Michelin stars and a La Liste score of 79 points under chef Pascal Prince, operating from a site near the old fish market in the city centre. The cooking sits firmly in the creative register, drawing on the produce traditions of the Midi-Pyrénées while pushing well beyond regional convention. For the city's top table, book ahead.
SEPT
1 Michelin star
SEPT holds a Michelin star earned in both 2024 and 2025, placing it among Toulouse's most consistent addresses for modern cuisine. Chef Frederik Rüssel works from a room on Rue Théodore Ozenne in the Saint-Étienne quarter, where the pacing and structure of the meal are as considered as what arrives on the plate. For a city building a credible fine-dining tier, SEPT is one of the clearer reference points.
Solides
Deep wine list
A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue des Polinaires, Solides sits in Toulouse's growing tier of mid-price modern French restaurants that trade on cooking precision rather than formal ceremony. It holds consistent appeal in a city where the gap between bistro and fine dining is narrowing. The €€ pricing makes it one of the more accessible entry points into Toulouse's contemporary dining scene.
Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra
1 Michelin star · Deep wine list
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.
Planning tasting menus in Toulouse
- Where are the best tasting menus in Toulouse?
- Capitole / Arnaud Bernard / Carmes has the highest concentration of tasting menus in our guide. Py-r, L'Écorce, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, SEPT, Solides, Cécile, and Hortùs all sit there, giving the centre a dense cluster of tasting-menu dining.
- Which tasting-menu restaurants in Toulouse are Michelin-starred?
- Py-r, Michel Sarran, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, L'Écorce, Acte 2 Yannick Delpech, and SEPT are the starred tasting-menu options in our guide. Py-r holds 2 stars, and the others each hold 1 star on a 2026 Michelin award.
- Which tasting-menu rooms also have strong wine programs?
- Py-r, Michel Sarran, Stéphane Tournié - Les Jardins de l'Opéra, and Les Planeurs have exceptional wine programs. L'Écorce and Acte 2 Yannick Delpech pair tasting menus with wine lists, and Solides also combines a tasting menu with an exceptional wine program.