For chefs and foodies alike, it's an exciting harbinger of spring: the announcement each year of the new Michelin-star ratings in the latest edition of the Guide Rouge for France. With few exceptions, Michelin has been rating French restaurants since the year 1900. (The history of Michelin restaurant ratings is here.)
The 2024 guide has just come out and once again, because I live to please you, I've compiled a list of all the starred restaurants across Provence, the Côte d'Azur and Monaco. There are six departments in the region known as PACA (Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur) and you'll find all the Michelin-starred restaurants in PACA in my list below, organized by department and village. Each restaurant appears with its current star rating and a clickable link. Restaurants new to the starred list are designated "New 2024."
The big news this year is the naming of two new three-star restaurants in France...one of them in Provence...bringing the total number of three stars in France to 30. Congrats to chef Fabien Ferré of La Table du Castellet in the Hotel du Castellet (a Relaix & Châteaux property in Le Castellet, in the Var) for attaining this stellar accolade...considered by many to be the pinnacle in the world of French gastronomy.
At age 35, Ferré is the youngest three-star chef in France. "Age doesn't matter," he told Agence France-Presse last week at the Michelin awards ceremony in the city of Tours. "Life is made of failures. I've had them and yet I'm here being crowned...you have to fight."
The other new three-star is chef Jérôme Banctel of Le Gabriel at La Réserve in Paris.
Eight restaurants are new to the two-star list this year. And 52 restaurants across France have just been awarded their first star, illustrating "a rising new generation of chefs under 40," Michelin notes.
There are now 639 starred restaurants in France. In addition to the 30 three stars, there are 75 with two stars and 534 with one.
A couple years ago, Michelin unveiled a new "Green Star" for restaurants devoted to sustainability, recognizing them for their use of local foods and practices that preserve natural resources, protect ecological diversity and reduce waste. There are nine new Green Stars across France this year; you'll find all the Green Stars in PACA designated in green below.
As usual, Michelin has also given some un-starred restaurants its "Bib Gourmand" designation, meaning good food at low prices...often considered a precursor to a first star. This year there are 37 Bib Gourmand restaurants in PACA and you can see them all here.
For more about the winners, their restaurants and the 2024 Guide Rouge, click here.
And if you're looking for this list later,you'll find it by clicking the tab up above, the one that says MICHELIN RESTAURANTS. It'll be there for the next year, until the 2025 ratings come out. So read on and Bon App!
ALPES DE HAUTE PROVENCE (DEPT. 04)
Château Arnoux -- La Bonne Étape *
Mane -- Le Feuillée - Le Couvent des Minimes * NEW 2024
Manosque – Restaurant Pierre Grein *
Moustiers Sainte Marie -- La Bastide de Moustiers *
LES HAUTES ALPES (05)
Saint Crépin -- Les Tables de Gaspard *
ALPES MARITIMES (06)
Antibes -- Le Figuier de Saint Esprit *
Antibes -- Louroc *
Antibes (Cap d'Antibes) -- Les Pêcheurs *
Beaulieu sur Mer -- Le Restaurant des Rois *
Biot -- Les Terraillers *
Le Cannet (Cannes) -- Villa Archange **
La Colle sur Loup -- Alain Llorca *
Èze -- Château de la Chèvre d'Or **
Èze – Château Eza *
Èze Bord de Mer -- La Table de Patrick Raingeard *
Juan les Pins -- La Passagère *
Mandelieu-la-Napoule (06) – Bessem * NEW 2024
Menton -- Mirazur ***
Nice -- Chantecler *
Nice -- L'Aromate *
Nice -- Flaveur **
Nice -- Jan *
Nice -- Les Agitateurs *
Nice (06) -- ONICE * NEW 2024
Nice – Pure & V *
Nice (06) -- Racines - Bruno Cirino * NEW 2024
Roquebrune Cap Martin - Ceto at the Maybourne Riviera*
Saint Jean Cap Ferrat -- Le Cap at the Grand Hôtel du Cap Ferrat *
Théoule sur Mer – L'Or Bleu at Hotel Tiara Yaktsa *
Vence -- Le Saint Martin *
Villeneuve Loubet – La Flibuste-Martin's *
BOUCHES DU RHONE (13)
Aix en Provence -- Pierre Reboul at the Hôtel Château de la Pioline *
Aix en Provence (Le Tholonet) -- Le Saint Estève *
Aix en Provence -- Le Château de Gaude *
Aix en Pvce/Le Puy Ste Reparade -- Helene Darroze at Villa Lacoste *
Aix en Provence/Le Puy Ste Reparade -- La Table de l'Orangerie - Château de Fonscolombe * NEW 2024
Arles -- La Chassagnette *
Les Baux de Provence -- L'Oustau de Baumanière ***
Les Baux de Provence -- L'Aupiho at Domaine de Manville *
Cabriès -- La Bastide Bourrelly - Mathias Dandine * NEW 2024
Cassis -- La Villa Madie ***
La Ciotat -- Couleurs de Shimatani *
Eygalières -Maison Hache *
Gemenos – La Magdeleine *
La Ciotat (Le Liouquet) - LaTable de Nans at L'Auberge le Revestel *
Marseille -- Le Petit Nice ***
Marseille -- AM par Alexandre Mazzia ***
Marseille -- Saisons *
Marseille -- L'Epuisette *
Marseille -- Signature *
Marseille -- Une Table au Sud *
Saint Cannat – Le Mas Bottero *
Saint Rémy de Provence -- Fanny Rey at L'Auberge de Saint Rémy *
Saint Rémy de Provence -- Restaurant De Tourrel *
Salon de Provence -- Villa Salone *
Ventabren -- La Table de Ventabren *
LE VAR (83)
Les Arcs sur Agens -- Le Relais des Moines *
La Cadière d'Azur -- Hostellerie Bérard *
Le Castellet – La Table du Castellet *** -- NEW 2024
La Croix Valmer -- La Palmeraie at Château de Valmer *
Le Lavandou – L’arbre au Soleil *
Lorgues -- Bruno *
Lorgues -- Le Jardin de Berne at Hôtel Château de Berne *
Ramatuelle -- La Voile at the Hôtel La Réserve Ramatuelle **
Saint Raphaël -- Recif at Hotel Les Roches Rouges *
Saint Tropez -- La Vague d'Or at Cheval Blanc***
Saint Tropez -- La Terrasse at Cheval Blanc * -- NEW 2024
Saint Tropez -- Colette *
Tourettes -- La Faventia *
VAUCLUSE (84)
Ansouis -- La Closerie *
Avignon -- La Mirande *
Avignon – La Vieille Fontaine at Hotel de L’Europe *
Avignon -- Pollen *
Avignon/ Villeneuve -- Le Prieure * -- NEW 2024
Avignon/ Pujaut -- Entre Vigne et Garrigue *
Avignon / Collias -- Le Château de Collias * -- NEW 2024
Bonnieux -- La Bastide de Capelongue *
Bonnieux -- Le Mas des Eydins ** -- NEW 2024
Cadenet -- Le Goût du Bonheur * NEW 2024
Châteauneuf du Pape -- La Mère Germaine *
Cucuron -- La Petite Maison de Cucuron *
Gigondas --L'Oustalet *
Gordes (Joucas) -- Hostellerie le Phébus *
Lauris (84) -- Le Champ des Lunes * - NEW 2024
L'Isle sur la Sorgue -- Le Vivier *
MONACO
Le Louis XV (Alain Ducasse) ***
Pavyllon Monte Carlo at the Hotel Hermitage *
Le Blue Bay at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel **
Yoshi at the Metropole Hotel (Joel Robuchon) *
La Table d’Antonio Salvatore au Rampoldi *
Les Ambassadeurs Hotel Le Métropole ** -- NEW 2024