Restaurant in Angers, France
Reliable traditional French at honest prices.
Chez Rémi is a Michelin Plate-recognised traditional French restaurant in Angers, holding consecutive plates in 2024 and 2025 with a 4.5-star Google rating from 343 reviews. At the €€ price point, it delivers consistent, well-crafted cooking in an intimate neighbourhood setting. Easy to book and well-suited to solo diners or quiet dinners for two.
Book Chez Rémi if you want a dependable, Michelin-recognised traditional French meal at a price point that leaves room in your budget for a good bottle of Loire wine. Two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) confirm this is a kitchen with consistent standards, and a 4.5-star Google rating across 343 reviews signals that the experience holds up across a wide range of diners — not just critics. For a returning visitor to Angers who has already done the city's higher-end rooms, Chez Rémi is the kind of neighbourhood-anchored restaurant worth coming back to.
Chez Rémi sits at 168 Rue de Frémur in Angers, a residential address that sets expectations correctly: this is not a showcase dining room designed to impress on arrival. The spatial register here is intimate over grand. That framing matters when you are deciding how to use it — this is the right room for a quiet dinner for two, a catch-up lunch with a local friend, or a solo meal at a pace you control. It is not the venue to choose if you need a dramatic backdrop for a celebration or a table large enough for a group of eight. The physical scale keeps service personal, which at the €€ price point is the kind of detail that earns its keep.
At the €€ tier, Chez Rémi is positioned as accessible mid-market French dining , not budget, not a splurge. The question worth asking at this price is whether the service style matches or undermines what you are paying for. The Michelin Plate is awarded for food quality, not room design or front-of-house ambition, which means Michelin's recognition here is specifically about the kitchen's output. That is a useful filter: if you are weighing Chez Rémi against a higher-priced competitor and wondering what the extra spend buys, the honest answer is that it likely buys a more polished service experience, a larger wine programme, and a more composed room , not necessarily better cooking at this calibre level.
For diners returning after a first visit, the practical implication is this: if the food landed on your first visit, there is no reason to expect it to fall short on a second. Traditional French cuisine at this level has a consistency advantage over more experimental kitchens , the repertoire is established, and execution risk is lower. What you should pay attention to on a return visit is the wine list's relationship to the food and whether the service pacing suits the time of day. A lunch visit will typically move faster and feel more casual than an evening booking.
Compared to the wider field of Michelin-recognised traditional French restaurants, Chez Rémi sits in productive company. For reference, kitchens such as Cave à Vin & à Manger - Maison Saint-Crescent in Narbonne and Coto de Quevedo Evolución in Torre de Juan Abad operate with the same traditional-cuisine mandate at comparable recognition levels, and the consistent thread is a commitment to craft over concept. If you want to understand what French fine dining looks like at the other end of the ambition spectrum, Arpège in Paris or Mirazur in Menton show what the category's ceiling looks like , but at multiples of Chez Rémi's price.
Chez Rémi is rated Easy for booking difficulty, which means you do not need to plan weeks in advance the way you would for a starred Angers table. That said, the intimacy of the room means it can fill without much notice on weekend evenings, so aiming for a reservation two to five days ahead is sensible if you have a specific date in mind. For weekday lunches, same-week booking is generally feasible. If you are planning around a visit to Angers for a longer stay and want to lock in a dinner for a Friday or Saturday, book a week out to be safe. Booking method details are not confirmed in Pearl's current data, so contact the restaurant directly via the address at 168 Rue de Frémur.
If you are building a broader Angers itinerary, Pearl's full Angers restaurants guide covers the city's dining options with the same recommendation-first framing, and you can find complementary guidance in the Angers hotels guide, bars guide, wineries guide, and experiences guide.
If your appetite runs toward Angers' more creative end, Lait Thym Sel is the room to consider for a more composed, higher-investment meal. For something closer to Chez Rémi in spirit but with a different culinary register, Gribiche and Ancestral are worth checking. Bouillon Baron is the right call if budget is the primary constraint. For modern French with strong product sourcing, Autour d'un Cep rounds out the city's accessible fine-dining tier.
Yes, the intimate scale of the room makes solo dining comfortable here in a way that larger, louder restaurants do not. At the €€ price point, a solo dinner or lunch is an easy spend to justify. If counter or bar seating is available, that is the better solo configuration , but confirm with the restaurant directly, as Pearl's current data does not include a seat breakdown.
Go in knowing this is traditional French cooking , not creative or experimental , at a mid-market price in a small, personal room. The two consecutive Michelin Plates (2024 and 2025) tell you the kitchen is consistent and takes its craft seriously. Don't expect theatrical service or an elaborate tasting structure; expect well-executed French fundamentals in a neighbourhood setting. Book two to five days ahead for a weekend dinner.
Pearl's current data does not confirm whether bar seating is available at Chez Rémi. Contact the restaurant directly at 168 Rue de Frémur, Angers to ask. If bar or counter dining matters to you as a format, it's worth asking when you book , at this room size, the answer will shape how the meal feels significantly.
It depends on what you mean by special. For an intimate dinner for two where the focus is on good food without a high bill, yes. For a milestone celebration where you want a dramatic room and attentive ceremony, look instead at Lait Thym Sel (Creative, €€€€), which operates at a higher service and presentation register. Chez Rémi's Michelin Plate credentials give it credibility for a meaningful meal, but the room's character is understated rather than celebratory.
At the €€ tier, yes. Two Michelin Plates and a 4.5-star rating across 343 Google reviews confirm that consistent quality is being delivered at an accessible price. In Angers' dining field, Chez Rémi gives you Michelin-recognised traditional French cooking without the price step up required at Lait Thym Sel (€€€€) or the more experimental register of Autour d'un Cep. If value for Michelin-level recognition is your measure, this is one of Angers' stronger answers.
Pearl's current data does not confirm whether Chez Rémi offers a tasting menu format. For traditional French kitchens at the €€ level, a fixed menu or menu du jour structure is common and usually represents the best-value entry point. Ask when booking whether a set menu is available , at this price point and style of cooking, it typically delivers better value than ordering entirely à la carte.
| Venue | Cuisine | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chez Rémi | Traditional Cuisine | Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | Easy | — |
| Lait Thym Sel | Creative | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| Sens | Creative | Unknown | — | |
| L'Ardoise | Mediterranean Cuisine | Unknown | — | |
| Bouillon Baron | Traditional Cuisine | Unknown | — | |
| Kazumi | Teppanyaki | Unknown | — |
How Chez Rémi stacks up against the competition.
Yes. The €€ price point and easy booking difficulty make it a low-friction choice for a solo meal — you are not committing to a long tasting format or a high per-head spend. Chez Rémi's traditional French format suits solo diners who want a proper sit-down meal without the occasion pressure of a starred room like Lait Thym Sel.
Chez Rémi is a Michelin Plate holder — meaning Michelin recognises it for good cooking, but it sits below starred level. The address on Rue de Frémur signals a neighbourhood setting rather than a city-centre showcase, so arrive with calibrated expectations: solid traditional French food at accessible prices, not a theatrical dining event.
Bar seating details are not confirmed in available venue data. Given the residential address and traditional French format, this reads more as a full-service dining room than a bar-led operation. Call ahead or book a table to avoid ambiguity.
It works for a low-key celebration — a birthday dinner or anniversary where the priority is a reliable, Michelin-recognised meal rather than a high-production experience. For a genuinely occasion-grade dinner in Angers, Lait Thym Sel is the stronger call at a higher investment. Chez Rémi at €€ is better framed as a treat than a destination event.
At the €€ tier with two consecutive Michelin Plate recognitions (2024 and 2025), Chez Rémi offers above-average assurance for the price. You are paying mid-market for food that Michelin considers worth flagging — that is a reasonable deal by Angers standards. If you want more ambition on the plate and can spend more, Lait Thym Sel is the step up.
Specific menu formats are not confirmed in the venue data, so a tasting menu cannot be verified as an available option. Chez Rémi's traditional cuisine positioning at €€ suggests a conventional à la carte or set-menu structure rather than a chef's tasting format — that format belongs to higher-investment rooms in Angers.
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