Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Bora Bora from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Bora Bora
Bora Bora’s strongest formal tables sit inside the resorts, where wine lists, set formats, and overwater settings carry most of the experience.
Arii Moana serves modern Mediterranean food in Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora from a room beside the lagoon. It holds the 2025 World Culinary Awards title French Polynesia's Best Hotel Restaurant, number 1. The menu is à la carte, with craft cocktails, a wine list, and an extensive wine list.
Bamboo Restaurant cooks Pan-Asian food, including sushi, in The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort, set beside the lagoon. Meals are served à la carte and as a set menu, and the restaurant serves craft cocktails.
Tere Nui serves French, Polynesian and Mediterranean dishes as a breakfast buffet in Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora (Motu Tehotu). Its open-air dining room faces the lagoon, with views across the water toward the island.
The restaurants are Restaurant Saint James in Vaitape / Centre Helen’s Bay, The Lucky House Fare Manuia Restaurant in Matira, and Banyan in Vaitape.
On the lagoon in Vaitape / Centre Helen’s Bay, Restaurant Saint James cooks modern French food with Polynesian influence from a terrace toward Helen’s Bay. Sunset cocktails and craft cocktails are served with an extensive wine list.
The Lucky House Fare Manuia Restaurant in Matira cooks Polynesian-Italian fusion, with pizza from a wood-fired oven and Polynesian seafood served fresh. The space is an outdoor courtyard by Matira Beach, and the restaurant serves craft cocktails.
Banyan is a restaurant in Vaitape, set beneath a banyan tree in an open-air dining room. It serves modern Chinese food with regional Chinese flavours, an à la carte menu and a standard wine programme.
Vaitape has 3 venues in our guide, the largest neighbourhood venue count on the island of Bora Bora. The neighbourhoods Bora Bora, Motu Tehotu, and Motu Piti Aau all have 2 venues each.
Bora Bora has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Arii Moana holds the 2025 World Culinary Awards title of French Polynesia's Best Hotel Restaurant and serves modern Mediterranean food with an extensive wine list.
Arii Moana, in the neighbourhood Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora, has an extensive wine list. Restaurant Saint James, in the neighbourhood Vaitape / Centre Helen’s Bay, has an extensive wine list.
Arii Moana and Restaurant Saint James. Arii Moana combines an extensive wine list, while Restaurant Saint James pairs its programme with an extensive wine list and craft cocktails.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Arii Moana belongs to Bora Bora’s resort-dining tier, where lagoon setting, island supply chains, and polished pacing matter as much as formal culinary labels. The draw is less a named-chef narrative than the way a Motu Tehotu dining room frames French Polynesian produce, seafood expectations, and the logistical realities of eating well on a remote atoll.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Bamboo Restaurant sits in Bora Bora, where resort dining, lagoon-side informality, and Polynesian hospitality shape the table as much as any formal cuisine label. Its appeal is less about awards or chef mythology than context: a local island restaurant in a destination often defined by hotel dining rooms, beach bars, and overwater luxury formats.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Banyan belongs to the quieter side of Bora Bora dining: an open-air address defined less by ceremony than by its setting under a banyan tree. In a lagoon economy where imported luxury can dominate the table, its appeal is the chance to read Polynesian restaurant culture through place, shade, weather, and the island’s dependence on seafood, fruit, and resort-era hospitality.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Restaurant Saint James is worth booking for a polished waterfront meal in Vaitape when you want Bora Bora scenery without committing to a resort-only dining room. Expect Modern French cooking with Polynesian influence, an à la carte format, cocktails and wine, and a lively open-air setting that works for dates, celebrations, and small groups.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Tere Nui is worth booking into your morning if you want an easy, scenic Four Seasons breakfast rather than a formal meal. The $50 buffet works well for couples, families, and groups who value a calm lagoon-side setting, casual dress, and flexible pacing; choose Monday dinner only if the adult-only Polynesian buffet format is the point.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
On Bora Bora's circuit of casual and mid-range dining, The Lucky House Fare Manuia Restaurant occupies the kind of local position that rewards those willing to look beyond the resort corridor. Set in the Leeward Islands, it draws on the French Polynesian tradition of cooking close to what the lagoon and land provide. Details on bookings and current hours are best confirmed directly on arrival or through local concierge channels.
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Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Occupying its own private atoll with uninterrupted sightlines to Mount Otemanu, The St. Regis Bora Bora Resort ranks among French Polynesia's most spatially generous overwater properties. Its 90 villas start at 1,550 square feet and include private pools and direct lagoon access. A 2026 La Liste score of 95.5 points places it in the upper tier of the South Pacific luxury hotel category.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora occupies its own private motu against the silhouette of Mount Otemanu, with 108 over-water bungalows and 7 beachfront villas across 121 rooms. The dining programme spans four distinct venues, from the lagoon-facing Arii Moana serving seafood and fine wine to the casual over-water Sunset Restaurant & Bar. Rates begin around $4,364 per night. The 2025 World Travel Awards named its Three-Bedroom Beachfront Villa Estate French Polynesia's Leading Luxury Hotel Villa.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Le Bora Bora by Pearl Resorts sits on Motu Tevairoa, a coral islet positioned directly opposite Mount Otemanu, giving overwater bungalows and beach villas one of the lagoon's most direct sightlines to the island's defining peak. The Pearl Resorts group identity sets it apart from the international-flag properties competing in the same upper tier, with 108 rooms, a water-based spa, and rates from US$1,566 per night.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Set on a private motu in Bora Bora's lagoon, InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa offers 84 overwater villas, the largest wine cellar in French Polynesia, and a 43,000-square-foot deep-ocean spa that earned 92.5 points on the 2026 La Liste Top Hotels ranking. The property runs entirely on overwater accommodation, a format choice that separates it from competitors that blend beach and garden categories into their villa mix.
Bora Bora, French Polynesia
Occupying its own private islet, Motu To'opua, Conrad Bora Bora Nui earned the #1 resort ranking in French Polynesia from both Travel + Leisure and World Travel Awards in 2021. Its 114 villas combine overwater, beachfront, and hillside configurations, with design details that frame Mount Otemanu and the lagoon rather than competing with them. Five restaurants and bars, a hilltop spa, and dedicated Island Host service complete the proposition.
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