Restaurant in Beaune, France
Michelin-recognised modern cooking, accessible pricing.
L'Alentour holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025, making it one of Beaune's strongest value propositions for modern cuisine: independently recognised kitchen quality at a €€ price point with a 4.7 Google rating across 337 reviews. Booking is easy outside harvest and auction season. If you want serious food in Beaune without the cost of a starred room, this is the most straightforward case for a yes.
Getting a table at L'Alentour is genuinely easy by Beaune standards, which makes the question simple: if you want Michelin-recognised modern cuisine at a mid-range price point in one of France's great wine towns, this is one of the most accessible ways to get it. The venue holds a Michelin Plate for both 2024 and 2025, signalling consistent kitchen quality without the three-week scramble required for the starred rooms in the same city. Book a week or two out for most nights; weekend slots in harvest season (late September through October) will go faster.
L'Alentour sits at 10 Rue d'Alsace, a short walk from Beaune's historic centre and the Hospices de Beaune. The address puts it inside the old town perimeter but away from the tourist-heavy Place Carnot, which matters if you prefer eating among locals rather than coach-tour groups. The setting is compact and considered — this is not a grand salle with vaulted stone ceilings, but a more intimate dining room where the scale keeps service attentive and the atmosphere personal. For food-focused travellers who want proximity to Burgundy's wine estates without sacrificing kitchen ambition, the spatial balance here is a practical advantage over larger, more theatrical rooms.
The Michelin Plate, awarded consecutively, is a direct signal about kitchen consistency. In Michelin's framework, the Plate denotes cooking that is technically solid and worth your time, without yet reaching the complexity or refinement of a starred room. At the €€ price tier, that positioning is meaningful: you are getting food that has passed one of the most rigorous quality filters in European dining at a price point that sits two tiers below Beaune's top-end options. The cuisine type is listed as Modern Cuisine, which in the Burgundy context typically means classical French technique applied to seasonal, regional produce with a contemporary sensibility rather than rigid tradition. What this kitchen does better than many peers at the same price is maintain that technical baseline reliably — the Plate being renewed for a second consecutive year is evidence of that, not a one-time result. For the food-focused traveller, that consistency matters more than a single exceptional meal surrounded by variable ones.
Burgundy's dining scene rewards visitors who understand the regional produce calendar. The area around Beaune draws on some of France's most serious ingredient sourcing: Bresse poultry, Charolais beef, Morvan trout, and a vegetable and mushroom culture tied to the seasons of the Côte d'Or. A kitchen operating at Michelin Plate level in this region should be engaging with that supply chain directly, and modern cuisine framing here suggests cooking that responds to seasonal availability rather than a fixed menu year-round. If you are visiting during truffle season (December through February) or the game season (autumn), timing your visit accordingly is worth considering. For broader context on the Beaune restaurant scene, see our full Beaune restaurants guide.
At €€, L'Alentour occupies the accessible end of Beaune's fine-dining spectrum. This is not the city's most ambitious or expensive room , Clos du Cèdre and Le Carmin operate at higher price tiers with corresponding ambition. But at this price point, back-to-back Michelin recognition is a strong signal of value. You are paying mid-range prices for a kitchen that has been independently verified as above average , that ratio is less common in Beaune than in larger French cities where competition drives more options at this intersection of price and quality.
On booking timing: the overall difficulty rating is easy, which means you should not feel pressure to plan far in advance for most of the year. The exception is the Beaune wine calendar. The annual Hospices de Beaune auction weekend in November floods the city with serious wine buyers and collectors; restaurants across the price spectrum fill weeks in advance during that period. If your trip coincides with the auction, book L'Alentour at least three to four weeks out. The same applies to the harvest window and major domaine open days in September and October. Outside those periods, a week's notice is typically sufficient.
Against Beaune's peer set, L'Alentour occupies a specific and useful position. Garum and L'Expression are alternatives worth cross-referencing if you want to compare modern cuisine options before committing. L'Écusson is another mid-range option in the same part of the city. For a higher-spend evening with starred ambition, both Clos du Cèdre and Le Carmin represent the next step up. If you are building a multi-day Beaune itinerary and want to understand how L'Alentour fits the broader picture, see our full Beaune restaurants guide, as well as our guides to Beaune hotels, Beaune bars, Beaune wineries, and Beaune experiences.
For travellers who want to benchmark L'Alentour against France's broader modern cuisine reference points, the national context includes rooms like Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen, Flocons de Sel in Megève, Mirazur in Menton, Troisgros in Ouches, Auberge de l'Ill in Illhaeusern, and Bras in Laguiole. L'Alentour is not competing with those rooms in terms of ambition or price, but knowing where it sits on that spectrum helps calibrate expectations: this is a serious mid-tier kitchen, not a destination room. For international modern cuisine points of comparison, Frantzén in Stockholm and FZN by Björn Frantzén in Dubai represent the category's upper register.
Expect a modern cuisine kitchen operating at Michelin Plate level , technically consistent food at a mid-range price point. The setting is intimate rather than grand, the location is in central Beaune away from the busiest tourist areas, and booking is direct for most of the year. It is a strong default choice for a serious dinner in Beaune without the complexity or price of the city's top-tier rooms.
Bar seating is not confirmed in available data. Given the intimate scale of the room, counter or bar options may exist, but you should confirm directly with the venue before making plans around that format.
Yes, with the right expectations. The Michelin Plate recognition and 4.7 Google rating (337 reviews) indicate consistent quality, and the €€ price tier makes it a realistic choice for a celebratory dinner without committing to a starred room budget. If the occasion calls for maximum formality or a multi-course tasting experience, the €€€€ options in Beaune , such as Clos du Cèdre , offer more theatrical ambition.
No confirmed group policy is available. Given the intimate scale typical of a €€ modern cuisine room in Beaune, large parties (eight or more) may be constrained by capacity. Contact the venue directly to discuss group arrangements before booking.
Specific menu formats are not confirmed in the available data. What is confirmed is that the kitchen has earned back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition at a €€ price point , a strong indicator of value at any format. If a tasting menu is available, that combination of Michelin consistency and mid-range pricing makes it worth considering over comparable rooms at the same tier.
At €€ with two consecutive Michelin Plates and a 4.7 Google rating across 337 reviews, yes. The price-to-quality ratio here is one of the better ones in Beaune's modern cuisine category. You are paying mid-range prices for a kitchen that has been independently recognised for quality two years running.
At the same price tier, Garum and L'Expression are the closest modern cuisine comparisons worth investigating. L'Écusson is another mid-range option in the city centre. If you want to spend more for a higher-ambition meal, Clos du Cèdre and Le Carmin are the natural step up. See our full Beaune restaurants guide for the complete picture.
No formal dress code is confirmed, but smart casual is the appropriate standard for a Michelin Plate-level room in Burgundy. Avoid overly casual attire , jeans are fine if paired with a shirt or jacket. The Beaune dining scene is not as formally dressed as Paris, but the city's wine-world clientele tends to dress with some care.
| Venue | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|
| L'Alentour | €€ | — |
| Caves Madeleine | €€ | — |
| Le Bénaton | €€€€ | — |
| Clos du Cèdre | €€€€ | — |
| 8 Clos | €€ | — |
| Bistro de l'Hôtel | €€€ | — |
A quick look at how L'Alentour measures up.
Book it without overthinking — getting a table is straightforward by Beaune standards, and the Michelin Plate (held consecutively in 2024 and 2025) confirms the kitchen is worth the trip. The address at 10 Rue d'Alsace puts it within easy reach of the historic centre. At €€, the risk-reward ratio is low: this is a sensible first stop in Beaune's dining scene rather than a commitment to a long, expensive evening.
Bar seating details are not confirmed in available data for L'Alentour. Given the €€ pricing and modern cuisine format, it reads as a sit-down restaurant rather than a bar-dining venue. Reserve a table to be safe — booking is easy enough that there is no reason to rely on walk-in bar access.
Yes, within a specific bracket. The consecutive Michelin Plate recognition gives it enough credibility to mark a birthday or anniversary dinner without the pressure of a full tasting-menu blowout. At €€, it will not feel ceremonially grand — if you want that register, Clos du Cèdre is the higher-stakes option in Beaune. L'Alentour is better suited to celebrations where good food and ease of booking matter more than theatre.
Group-specific capacity data is not in the venue record, so confirm directly before assuming. At the €€ price point and modern cuisine format, groups of four to six are plausible; larger parties should check ahead. For groups prioritising a private or semi-private setup, ask at booking — smaller Beaune restaurants at this level sometimes offer separate rooms on request.
Menu format and pricing specifics are not confirmed in the venue data, so a direct tasting-menu verdict is not possible here. What is confirmed: the Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 signals consistent kitchen quality, which is the primary reason to trust the cooking regardless of format. At €€, even a multi-course option would sit at the accessible end of Beaune's fine-dining range.
At €€, yes — the Michelin Plate is a meaningful benchmark at this price point and it has been awarded twice consecutively. You are getting Michelin-recognised modern cuisine without the €€€ outlay that Beaune's top rooms require. It is not the most ambitious restaurant in the city, but the value-to-quality ratio is hard to argue against for a Burgundy lunch or dinner.
Clos du Cèdre is the upgrade option if you want more ambition and are prepared to spend more. Garum and L'Expression are worth cross-referencing if the modern cuisine format is the draw but you want to compare approaches. For something more casual and wine-forward, Caves Madeleine and Bistro de l'Hôtel are the practical alternatives at a lower price point.
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