Les Rosiers

Should You Book Les Rosiers?

If you're deciding between Les Rosiers and La Table d'Aurélien Largeau for your Michelin-starred night in Biarritz, the price tier settles it quickly: Les Rosiers sits at €€€ against La Table's €€€€, and it earned its 2024 Michelin star on its own terms. For a food-focused traveller who wants proof-of-quality cooking without the top-tier spend, Les Rosiers is the more accessible call. If budget is less of a concern and you want the full-theatre experience, La Table pushes further. But for most visitors to Biarritz, Les Rosiers is the right answer.

Les Rosiers in Biarritz

Les Rosiers sits on Avenue Beau Soleil, a residential address that puts it at a slight remove from the tourist-facing seafront strip — and that positioning is part of what the restaurant is. This is not a room that exists to catch passing trade from the Grande Plage crowd. Its 4.3 Google rating across 296 reviews, combined with a Michelin star awarded in 2024, points to a venue that has built a local and returning clientele rather than relying on high-season footfall. In a town where seasonal restaurants can feel assembled and then dismantled, that consistency matters.

Biarritz has long carried an interesting culinary tension: it is a surf town and a luxury resort simultaneously, and restaurants here have to decide which register they're playing in. Les Rosiers sits firmly in the modern cuisine category at a price point — €€€ , that signals serious intent without demanding the full commitment of a destination-dining splurge. For anyone coming to the Basque Coast primarily for food, it belongs on the shortlist alongside L'Impertinent and above the more casual options that fill the beachfront. For a broader picture of where it sits in the city's dining scene, our full Biarritz restaurants guide maps the full range.

The Michelin star, granted in 2024, is the sharpest data point here. Michelin recognition in a secondary French city , Biarritz is not Lyon, not Paris, not Bordeaux , carries a specific meaning: the inspectors found technical consistency worth signalling to travellers who are making a detour or choosing between options. It puts Les Rosiers in a conversation with one-star rooms across France, from Maison Lameloise in Chagny to Flocons de Sel in Megève , different in character but comparable in the baseline promise Michelin is making to the reader. At Les Rosiers, that promise is made at a price that undercuts many of its single-star peers nationally.

The Avenue Beau Soleil address anchors the restaurant in the residential quarter above the coast. This is where Biarritz lives when it isn't performing for tourists, and a Michelin-starred room here functions as a neighbourhood anchor in the truest sense: it serves the town's year-round residents as much as its summer visitors. That dual audience tends to produce more reliable kitchens. A restaurant that has to satisfy both a local regular in February and a Paris weekender in August is doing more demanding work than one that only fires on high-season weekends.

For context on what a single Michelin star means in practice at this price tier: you should expect cooking with clear technical foundations, ingredient sourcing that goes beyond the standard, and a service level that matches the room's ambition. You are not buying the multi-course monument that three stars at Arpège in Paris or Mirazur in Menton represents. You are buying a serious dinner in a city where serious dinners are not guaranteed, at a price that makes the quality ratio genuinely favourable.

Booking is the practical constraint that shapes when you can actually go. A Michelin star awarded in 2024 , recent enough that demand is still calibrating , combined with a seasonal resort city dynamic means Les Rosiers is not a walk-in option. Aim to book at least three to four weeks ahead for summer visits; July and August in Biarritz compress availability sharply across the board. Shoulder season , May, June, September, October , gives you a better chance of securing your preferred date without the same lead time, and Biarritz at those times of year is a better city to be in anyway. Check the reservation window early if you are building a trip around this dinner. For where to stay while you are here, our full Biarritz hotels guide covers the range, and our Biarritz bars guide has options for before or after.

Les Rosiers does not have the profile of a venue like Troisgros in Ouches or Bras in Laguiole, where the restaurant is the entire reason for the trip. It is a neighbourhood anchor that happens to hold a Michelin star , a more useful thing in many cases, because it fits into a Biarritz itinerary rather than demanding one be built around it. If you are already coming to the Basque Coast for the surf, the pintxos runs across the border in San Sebastián, or the coast itself, Les Rosiers is the dinner that gives the trip a culinary anchor without requiring a separate detour. Pair it with a visit to Frenchie Biarritz or AHPĒ for contrast across the week.

The Google score of 4.3 across nearly 300 reviews is a useful secondary signal. In a tourist-heavy city where scores can be inflated by first-time visitors with low reference points, 4.3 at this volume suggests a room that holds its quality without major inconsistency. It is not a perfect score, and you should not expect perfection, but the pattern is consistent with what a one-star room at €€€ in a secondary French city should deliver. For a food-focused traveller who has done one-star dinners in other French cities , or who is using this as an entry point into that category , Les Rosiers is a reasonable place to start or to continue.

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