Restaurant in Beaune, France
Michelin-recognised, easier to book than you'd expect.
L'Écusson holds a Michelin Plate for 2024 and 2025 and sits at €€€ pricing — the most accessible tier of serious modern cuisine in Beaune. It is a well-positioned choice for wine-focused travellers who want technically considered food without committing to the town's full splurge tables. Book in advance for harvest season; outside peak periods, securing a table is straightforward.
Seats at L'Écusson are finite, and the restaurant's consistent Michelin Plate recognition in both 2024 and 2025 means they fill faster than the town's more casual bistros. If you are planning a Beaune trip around harvest season — late September through October, when the Côte de Beaune is at its most alive and every table in the appellation is contested , book L'Écusson before you finalise your hotel. That said, compared to the pressure of securing a table at Clos du Cèdre or Le Carmin, L'Écusson sits in a more accessible tier. Outside of peak harvest weeks, booking difficulty is low.
L'Écusson operates at €€€ pricing, which in Beaune's context means you are paying meaningfully more than a neighbourhood bistro but stopping short of the full splurge tier occupied by the town's €€€€ destination restaurants. For a food-and-wine explorer visiting Burgundy specifically to understand the region through its table, that price point makes sense: you get modern cuisine with clear technical ambition, in a city where the surrounding wine culture is the whole point of the trip.
The address , 2 Rue du Lieutenant Dupuis in central Beaune , puts the restaurant within the old town, close enough to the Hospices de Beaune and the négociant houses that the wine context is everywhere. Beaune's old town carries the scent of aged oak and cool stone that characterises every great Burgundian cellar, and L'Écusson sits inside that atmosphere rather than apart from it. For a wine traveller, this matters: the restaurant is not a detour from the wine experience, it is part of it.
L'Écusson holds a Michelin Plate , a recognition that signals consistent cooking quality rather than starred ambition , and in a town as wine-saturated as Beaune, the wine list is as important a reason to book as the food. Beaune is surrounded by some of the most precisely delineated vineyards in France: Pommard and Volnay to the south, Savigny-lès-Beaune and Aloxe-Corton to the north, and the Beaune Premiers Crus running directly through the town's edge. A modern cuisine restaurant at this price tier in this location should be drawing on that geography directly, and the expectation for any informed diner is that the wine program reflects the appellation depth available on the doorstep.
For the explorer travelling through Burgundy's wine regions, L'Écusson's setting makes it a sensible anchor point. If you are building an itinerary that takes in Beaune's wineries, the meal here functions as the table-based counterpart to cellar visits , a place to drink the wines of the Côte de Beaune with food that matches their weight and precision rather than competing with them. That pairing logic is what distinguishes a genuinely useful Beaune restaurant from a merely competent one.
For broader context on how Burgundy's leading tables handle wine-food integration at starred level, Maison Lameloise in Chagny , just south of Beaune , is the clearest regional benchmark, with a wine list that treats the surrounding appellations as the primary text. At the national level, restaurants like Arpège in Paris and Mirazur in Menton show how deeply a wine program can be woven into a tasting structure. L'Écusson operates at a different scale, but the expectation , that wine and food are in conversation, not parallel tracks , holds at any level.
The optimal window for L'Écusson is spring through early summer, or the early post-harvest period in November. The harvest weeks themselves (typically the last two weeks of September and first week of October) bring the highest competition for tables across all Beaune restaurants, and prices and crowds peak together. Spring visits , April through June , offer the advantage of quieter rooms and the chance to taste younger vintages being opened for the first time, without the logistical pressure of the harvest period. If your goal is to drink well and eat well without managing a packed dining room, a May or June visit is the better call. November has its own case: the town quiets sharply after the Hospices de Beaune auction in the third week of November, and restaurants that remain open offer a more considered pace.
For context on the wider Beaune dining calendar and how L'Écusson fits within it, see our full Beaune restaurants guide. If you are building a broader trip, our Beaune hotels guide, bars guide, and experiences guide cover the rest of the itinerary.
Reservations: Book in advance, especially for harvest season (late September to October) and weekends year-round; outside peak periods, lead time of one to two weeks is typically sufficient. Dress: Smart casual is the expectation at this price tier in Beaune , no strict formal requirement, but trainers and casual sportswear would be out of place. Budget: €€€ per head; expect to pay more if you build a serious wine list alongside the food. Getting there: Central Beaune; walkable from the Hospices de Beaune and most of the town's hotels. Google rating: 4.8 from 392 reviews , a strong signal of consistent execution across a meaningful sample size.
Beaune punches well above its size for serious dining. L'Écusson sits in a useful middle tier: more ambitious than the town's traditional bistros, more accessible than its top-end destination tables. For the food-and-wine explorer who wants one properly considered meal per evening rather than a tasting-menu marathon, it is a well-positioned choice. Alternatives worth knowing: Garum and L'Alentour for modern cooking at adjacent price points, and L'Expression if you want to push further toward the experimental end of the spectrum. For a regional benchmark on what Burgundian modern cuisine looks like at starred level, Maison Lameloise in Chagny remains the reference point , though it operates at a different scale and price tier entirely. Other French modern cuisine benchmarks worth holding in mind for context include Flocons de Sel in Megève, Troisgros in Ouches, and Bras in Laguiole , all operating at higher tiers, but useful for calibrating how far L'Écusson's ambition reaches relative to France's broader modern cuisine conversation.
Specific menu details are not confirmed in our current data. What the Michelin Plate recognition signals is consistent, technically solid modern cuisine , the kind of cooking where the menu changes seasonally and the kitchen is making deliberate choices about ingredient sourcing. For a Beaune visit, the practical guidance is to lean into whatever the kitchen is doing with local Burgundian produce and to let the sommelier steer the wine pairing rather than anchoring on a single bottle. If you want confirmed dish details before booking, contact the restaurant directly.
Seating configuration details are not confirmed in our data. In Beaune's mid-to-upper-tier modern cuisine restaurants, bar or counter seating is less standard than in larger cities , most rooms are structured around full table service. If solo bar dining is your preference, our Beaune restaurants guide covers venues with confirmed counter options. Call ahead to check availability for informal seating at L'Écusson specifically.
No dietary information is confirmed in our current data. The standard practice at French modern cuisine restaurants at this tier is to accommodate restrictions when given advance notice , at booking, rather than on arrival. Contact the restaurant directly before your visit to confirm what the kitchen can work with. Leaving it until you are seated is a poor strategy at any restaurant with a set or semi-set menu structure.
Two things. First, you are eating in Burgundy's wine capital, so let the wine list do work , at €€€ pricing, a considered glass or bottle pairing is part of what you are paying for. Second, Michelin Plate recognition means the kitchen has cleared a quality bar that casual tourist-trap restaurants do not clear. You are not gambling on an unknown. Come with an appetite for modern French technique and a willingness to take the sommelier's advice on regional pours.
At €€€ pricing with a Google rating of 4.8 from nearly 400 reviews, L'Écusson is a reasonable solo choice for a traveller in Beaune who wants a proper meal rather than a quick plate. Solo dining at mid-tier French modern cuisine restaurants can feel formal depending on the room layout , check when booking whether the kitchen has counter or bar seating available. If the room is entirely table-based, a solo seat at a four-leading on a quiet evening can feel underpopulated; early seatings tend to be calmer and better suited to single diners.
Capacity and private dining details are not confirmed in our data. For groups of four or more, contact the restaurant directly to check whether they can accommodate your party and whether a private or semi-private area is available. In central Beaune at this price tier, many restaurants have smaller rooms that cap out at six to eight covers comfortably; larger groups should confirm in advance rather than assuming flexibility. If L'Écusson cannot take your group size, our Beaune restaurants guide covers venues with confirmed group capacity.
| Venue | Cuisine | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| L'Écusson | Modern Cuisine | Michelin Plate (2025); Michelin Plate (2024) | Easy | — |
| Caves Madeleine | Wine Bar, Modern Cuisine | Unknown | — | |
| Le Bénaton | French, Modern Cuisine | Unknown | — | |
| Clos du Cèdre | Modern Cuisine | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| 8 Clos | Traditional Cuisine | Unknown | — | |
| Bistro de l'Hôtel | Traditional Cuisine | Unknown | — |
Key differences to consider before you reserve.
Specific menu details are not available in Pearl's current data for L'Écusson. What the Michelin Plate recognition in 2024 and 2025 does confirm is that the kitchen is cooking at a consistent level — so follow the server's lead on the day's strongest options. At €€€ pricing in Beaune, a tasting or set menu format is likely your best route to understanding what the kitchen does well.
Bar seating details are not confirmed in Pearl's data for L'Écusson. Given the restaurant's address on Rue du Lieutenant Dupuis and its positioning as a Michelin Plate modern cuisine venue, it is more likely a formal dining-room format than a counter-and-bar operation. Call ahead if informal seating matters to your visit.
No specific dietary policy is documented for L'Écusson in Pearl's data. At a Michelin Plate venue operating at €€€ in Beaune, kitchen flexibility is generally present, but confirming requirements at the time of reservation is the practical move — especially for tasting menus where substitutions affect the whole sequence.
L'Écusson holds consecutive Michelin Plates for 2024 and 2025, which signals reliable cooking rather than starred ambition — it is a credible choice without the booking pressure of Beaune's starred competition. At €€€, you are paying above bistro rates, so arrive with an appetite for a full sit-down meal rather than a quick bite. Book ahead, particularly for weekends and harvest season from late September through October.
Pearl's data does not confirm bar or counter seating at L'Écusson, which is the usual setup that makes solo dining comfortable at this price point. It is worth contacting the restaurant directly at 2 Rue du Lieutenant Dupuis to ask whether solo covers can be seated without occupying a full table — Michelin Plate venues in France are generally accommodating, but policies vary.
Private dining or group capacity details are not documented in Pearl's current data. For groups of six or more, it is worth contacting L'Écusson directly before assuming availability, particularly during peak periods like harvest season. If the restaurant cannot seat a large group, Le Bénaton or venues with confirmed private dining arrangements in Beaune are worth considering as alternatives.
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