Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Tours from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Tours
These three places show the range of Tours wine service, from one exceptional program to wine lists with natural wine and sommelier-led service.
In Saint-Avertin, La Roche Le Roy has the city’s only exceptional wine program in our guide. The restaurant offers an extensive wine list and sommelier-led service, alongside modern classic French gastronomy, à la carte and prix fixe formats, and a wine-by-the-glass list in a refurbished manor house.
In Quartier Grammont, Casse-Cailloux pairs market-driven bistronomic cooking with a wine list and a natural wine focus. It works from à la carte and set menu formats, and its consecutive Michelin Plate recognition places it in an intimate room with an inventive seasonal menu.
In Vieux Tours, La Deuvalière combines inventive seasonal French cooking with an extensive wine list. It offers à la carte and prix fixe dining, and its consecutive Michelin Plate recognition comes with Japanese fusion influences in a charming 16th-century house.
Tours has several rooms where the menu format is built for a slower meal, with tasting menus or prix fixe choices leading the way.
On Rue Colbert, Centre-Ville, Les Bartavelles offers prix fixe and tasting menu dining in an intimate 20-seat room. The kitchen focuses on refined seasonal cuisine using local Touraine ingredients, and its consecutive Michelin Plate recognition sits alongside a sommelier-led drinks program.
In Les Halles, Le Pavillon offers a tasting menu alongside à la carte dining, with contemporary French cuisine beside the Halles market. It serves from an elegant white pavilion building, and the menu sits with an extensive wine list and a clear focus on ingredient-led cooking.
In Place des Halles, L'Accalmie pairs tasting menu and à la carte options with modern French gastronomique cooking. The restaurant uses local products with Japanese and Mexican elements, and it sits in a historic alleyway near the market with an extensive wine list.
Vieux Tours, Centre, Place des Halles, and Les Halles are the main dining neighbourhoods in Tours in our guide. Vieux Tours has 6 venues in our guide, and Centre has 3.
Tours has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Casse-Cailloux in Quartier Grammont, Les Bartavelles in Rue Colbert, Centre-Ville, and La Deuvalière in Vieux Tours hold Michelin Plate recognition for 2026. Les Bartavelles offers prix fixe and tasting menu dining.
Les Bartavelles in Rue Colbert, Centre-Ville, Le Pavillon in Les Halles, and L'Accalmie in Place des Halles all offer tasting menus. Les Bartavelles is sommelier-led, Le Pavillon has an extensive wine list, and L'Accalmie pairs its menu with Japanese and Mexican elements.
La Roche Le Roy in Saint-Avertin has the city’s only exceptional wine program in our guide. Le Chien Fou in Vieux Tours lists 70 rare local wines in an open cellar, and Casse-Cailloux in Quartier Grammont pairs market-driven cooking with natural wine.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tours.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue Jehan Fouquet, Casse-Cailloux sits in Tours' mid-market modern cuisine tier alongside peers like La Deuvalière and Case. Holding consecutive Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025, it represents the kind of serious but accessible cooking that defines the Loire Valley's provincial dining character.
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A Michelin Plate recipient for 2024 and 2025, La Deuvalière sits on Rue de la Monnaie in the historic heart of Tours, holding its own within a city that has developed a credible mid-range modern cuisine circuit. It represents the reliable end of the Loire Valley's accessible fine-dining tier, where seasonal French cooking meets unhurried pacing.
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On the Place du Grand Marché in the heart of Tours, La Rissole holds a Michelin Plate across consecutive years, a signal of consistent kitchen ambition at the accessible end of the city's modern cuisine tier. Positioned alongside a cluster of similarly priced contemporaries, it represents the mid-market case for serious cooking in a city that punches above its size for French regional dining.
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A refurbished manor house on the southern edge of Tours, La Roche Le Roy sits at the €€€ tier of the city's modern cuisine scene and earns a 2024 Michelin Plate for precise, ingredient-led cooking with consistent vegetarian coverage. The terrace, attentive service, and a wine-by-the-glass list make it one of the more complete packages at this price point in the Loire Valley.
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Les Bartavelles holds consecutive Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025), placing it among the more consistent modern cuisine addresses on Rue Colbert in central Tours. The kitchen works within a format that rewards deliberate ordering rather than casual drop-ins, and the room on one of the old city's principal dining streets sets expectations before the menu does.
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One of the more unexpected addresses in the Loire Valley's dining scene, Nobuki brings Japanese cooking to Tours at a price point that sits comfortably alongside the city's mid-range French restaurants.
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A Michelin Plate-recognised address on Rue Etienne Marcel, Case. sits in Tours' mid-range modern cuisine tier alongside peers like Casse-Cailloux and La Deuvalière. It delivers ingredient-led cooking at accessible prices, making it one of the more consistent arguments for dining in the Loire Valley's principal city.
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Le Pavillon sits beside Tours' central market hall on place Gaston-Paillhou, anchoring a dining scene shaped by daily produce access and Loire Valley tradition. The kitchen's position next to the halles influences sourcing and menu rhythm, positioning the restaurant within the city's ingredient-first dining tier.
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O&A holds a Michelin Plate (2024), placing it among the more consistently recognised modern cuisine addresses in Tours. Priced at the €€ tier, it occupies the accessible end of the city's serious dining circuit, alongside peers such as Case. and Casse-Cailloux. For visitors building a Loire Valley itinerary, it represents a considered stop in the city centre.
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Au Martin Bleu sits on Avenue de Grammont in Tours, positioned within a city that has quietly become one of the Loire Valley's more serious dining addresses. The restaurant draws on the agricultural depth of the surrounding Touraine region, where market gardens, river fish, and local charcuterie define the larder. For visitors tracing the Loire's food culture, it represents a practical and worthwhile stop.
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Bistrot des Halles serves Traditional French Bistro dishes in a historic building at 31 Pl. Gaston Paillhou, with local sourcing and a lively room.
Tours, France
On Rue Colbert, one of Tours' most characterful streets, Chez Gaster occupies a place in the city's mid-range dining scene that rewards visitors who look beyond the Loire's more celebrated addresses. The restaurant sits within walking distance of the cathedral quarter and the covered market, positioning it naturally within the daily rhythm of local eating rather than the special-occasion tier above it. For travellers already in Tours to eat well, it merits attention alongside peers like Bistrot des Belles Caves and Au Martin Bleu.
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On a quiet residential street in the heart of Tours, Comme à La Maison Côté Sud occupies the kind of address that rewards those who seek it out rather than stumble upon it. The menu architecture here follows the logic of a French household table transposed southward, with structure and warmth in equal measure. It sits comfortably within Tours' growing tier of neighbourhood-rooted dining rooms that favour familiarity over formality.
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Positioned on Place du Général Leclerc in central Tours, Kabuli sits at one of the city's most legible addresses, drawing foot traffic from both locals and visitors navigating the Loire Valley's dining circuit. Where most of Tours' restaurant scene defaults to Loire-focused French cooking, Kabuli offers a different register entirely, making it a notable point of contrast in a city whose culinary identity is firmly rooted in regional tradition.
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On a quiet street in Tours' medieval core, L'Accalmie draws a loyal local following that returns not for spectacle but for consistency and restraint. The address on Rue de la Grosse Tour places it within easy reach of the Loire's wine-country clientele, and the dining room rewards those who return often enough to understand its rhythm. For visitors, it offers a genuine read on how Tours eats when it isn't performing for tourists.
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On Rue Colbert, one of Tours' most historically layered streets, L'Aubépine occupies a position in the city's mid-tier dining conversation alongside modern-cuisine addresses that take Loire Valley produce seriously. The menu structure here is the primary editorial statement: what gets listed, in what order, and at what depth of ingredient detail tells you more about a kitchen's priorities than any single dish. A reliable stop for visitors working through the gastronomic geography of Touraine.
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On Avenue de Grammont, away from Tours' tourist quarter, La Chope operates in the city's working bistro register, feeding a local constituency rather than a transient one. The address places it inside the Loire Valley's ingredient tradition: a region that produces some of France's most distinctive charcuterie, freshwater fish, and goat's cheese. A practical choice for eating as Tours actually eats.
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Positioned on Place des Halles in the heart of Tours, La Maison des Halles occupies one of the city's most market-adjacent addresses, placing it directly within the Loire Valley's tradition of produce-driven dining. The restaurant draws on a location that has fed the city for generations, situating each meal within the rhythm of the covered market and the seasonal logic that defines cooking in this part of the Touraine.
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Le Chien Fou occupies a address on the Rue de la Grosse Tour in Tours's medieval quarter, placing it within a city whose restaurant scene has grown steadily more ambitious over the past decade. The name, the Mad Dog, signals an irreverence that sits against the Loire Valley's more formal dining traditions. For visitors working through the city's mid-range options, it belongs on the same shortlist as Case. and Casse-Cailloux.
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Le Chien Jaune occupies a quiet address on Rue Bernard Palissy in Tours, placing it within a city that has long served as a practical base for Loire Valley wine tourism and regional gastronomy. The restaurant operates in a dining culture shaped by slow meals, local produce, and the unhurried rhythms of the Touraine table. For visitors tracing the Loire's food and wine circuit, it represents one point on a well-worn local route.
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Positioned on Place Gaston Paillhou in central Tours, Le Jaja sits within a city whose markets and Loire Valley producers have long supplied serious kitchens. The address puts it steps from the old town's daily rhythms, and the restaurant draws on the Loire's indigenous larder with technique shaped by broader French culinary currents. For visitors building a table-by-table itinerary through Touraine, it belongs in the early conversation.
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On Place de la Résistance in the heart of Tours, Le Onze occupies a position that reflects the Loire Valley's broader dining character: rooted in local produce and serious wine, without the formality of destination-restaurant theatre. The address alone signals proximity to one of France's most compelling wine regions, and the room delivers on that promise with a focus that rewards those paying attention.
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On Rue Colbert, one of Tours' most characterful streets, Le Petit Patrimoine trades in the kind of French regional cooking that the Loire Valley has long made its own. The room is small, the cooking is rooted in local tradition, and the address has built a quiet but durable reputation among those who know where to eat in the city. Book ahead, this is not a walk-in proposition.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Tours.
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LABE occupies a considered address on Place du Général Leclerc in Tours, earning Michelin Selected status in 2025. The property sits within one of the Loire Valley's most historically layered cities, where Renaissance architecture and serious wine culture set a particular standard for hospitality. For travellers passing through the region, it represents a calibrated option in a city that rewards slower attention.
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