Restaurant in Honfleur, France
Solid Michelin-noted value, no drama.
Entre Terre et Mer holds back-to-back Michelin Plate recognition (2024 and 2025) at the €€ price point — a strong combination for food-focused travellers in Honfleur who want a considered meal without a destination price tag. With a 4.1 rating across 1,207 Google reviews, it is broadly reliable and accessible, making it the practical anchor for any serious eating itinerary in the town.
If you are spending a weekend in Honfleur and want one genuinely considered meal that does not cost a fortune, Entre Terre et Mer is the right call. At the €€ price point, it sits in a bracket where Honfleur's tourist-trap seafood restaurants cluster, but the back-to-back Michelin Plate recognitions in 2024 and 2025 signal that the kitchen is operating at a different level from the harbour-front brasseries. It earns its place for food-focused travellers who want a real meal, not a scenic postcard with mediocre fish.
Entre Terre et Mer — literally "between land and sea" — names a culinary identity that is worth taking seriously in Normandy. The region gives any kitchen working this territory a natural brief: the Atlantic coast's shellfish and fish alongside the bocage's dairy, poultry, and cider apples. A restaurant holding the Michelin Plate two consecutive years in a town this size is not an accident of tourist footfall. The Google rating of 4.1 across 1,207 reviews tells a more nuanced story: broadly well-regarded by a large cross-section of diners, not a cult favourite with a tiny, devoted audience. That combination of breadth and critical recognition makes it a practical choice for the explorer who wants substance without needing to gamble on an untested room.
Place Hamelin puts it just off the centre of Honfleur's historic core. The address is a short walk from the Vieux Bassin but removed enough from the immediate quayside scrum that the atmosphere should be noticeably calmer. In practical terms, you are not paying a premium for a harbour view here, which is often where value hides in a town this photogenic. The energy reads as a neighbourhood dining room rather than a destination stage , lower ambient noise, more conducive to conversation, suited to a dinner where the food is the focus rather than the spectacle.
For the traveller returning to Honfleur across two or three trips, Entre Terre et Mer rewards a deliberate approach. On a first visit, the logical move is to anchor to the carte and let the kitchen show you where its strengths lie , in a restaurant named for the tension between land and sea, the most instructive thing you can do is order one from each column and judge which direction the kitchen pulls most convincingly. Normandy's seafood heritage is the obvious draw, but the region's land-sourced larder , cream, butter, duck, apple , is what separates a kitchen with genuine regional fluency from one running a generic coastal menu.
A second visit is the time to test the tasting menu format if one is available, or to press deeper into the wine list. Normandy sits at the intersection of Calvados country and the northern Loire, and a kitchen at this recognition level in a wine-literate town usually maintains a list worth spending time on. If you are visiting in autumn, the seasonal window for Norman apples, cider-braised preparations, and game shifts the menu's centre of gravity in a direction worth timing your return around. That kind of seasonal intelligence , visiting at different points in the calendar year , is how you build a complete picture of a kitchen's range.
A third visit, or an extended stay, opens the question of how Entre Terre et Mer sits within a broader Honfleur dining week. Pairing it with Huître Brûlée for a more casual seafood session, or with L'Âtre for something with a different register, lets you use Entre Terre et Mer as the considered mid-point in a broader eating itinerary rather than a standalone destination. For context on building that itinerary, our full Honfleur restaurants guide covers the breadth of options across price points and formats.
The Michelin Plate is not a star, and it is worth being precise about what it means: it signals that the inspectors found food worth eating, consistently prepared. It does not carry the transformative ambition of a three-star room like Arpège in Paris or Mirazur in Menton, and it is not trying to. The appropriate frame of reference for Entre Terre et Mer is the category of well-run, regionally grounded French restaurants that deliver reliable quality at accessible prices , the kind of place that justifies the detour without demanding that the meal be the centrepiece of the entire trip. Two consecutive Plate years suggests the kitchen is not coasting on an early moment of form but maintaining a standard. For the food enthusiast visiting Honfleur, that consistency is the signal that matters most.
Reservations: Direct to book; advance planning of a few days to a week is sensible during peak summer and long weekends, though this is not a room that typically requires weeks of lead time. Price: €€, making it one of the more accessible Michelin-recognised options in this part of Normandy. Address: 12 Place Hamelin, 14600 Honfleur. Getting there: Honfleur is approximately two hours from Paris by car or bus; there is no direct train link to the town. Leading timing: Autumn brings Norman seasonal produce into its most interesting window; summer is busiest and the town fills with visitors. Dress: Smart casual is appropriate for a room at this level and price point in provincial Normandy; there is no expectation of formality.
If Entre Terre et Mer anchors your food itinerary, the surrounding town rewards the kind of explorer who takes eating seriously across the full day. La Fleur de Sel and L'Endroit offer alternative registers for the same audience, and Le Lingot steps up to the €€€ tier if you want more formal ambition on a second evening. For everything beyond restaurants , where to stay, drink, or spend time in the area , see our Honfleur hotels guide, our Honfleur bars guide, our Honfleur wineries guide, and our Honfleur experiences guide.
| Venue | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Entre Terre et Mer | €€ | — |
| Les Impressionnistes - La Ferme Saint-Siméon | €€€€ | — |
| SaQuaNa | €€ | — |
| Le Manoir des Impressionnistes | €€€ | — |
| Le Lingot | €€€ | — |
| Huître Brûlée | €€ | — |
What to weigh when choosing between Entre Terre et Mer and alternatives.
No specific policy is documented, but any Michelin Plate-recognised kitchen in France is expected to field dietary requests when given notice. Call or note requirements at booking — this is not a venue where you should arrive and hope for the best. For severe allergies, confirm directly before you commit.
A few days to a week ahead is enough for most of the year. During Honfleur's peak summer season and French long weekends, push that to at least a week, ideally two. It is not the hardest table in Normandy to secure, but showing up without a reservation in August is a gamble not worth taking at a Michelin Plate address.
No group-specific capacity data is available for this venue. For parties of six or more, contact them directly before booking — smaller dining rooms in Honfleur at this price point (€€) often have practical limits on large tables. If a private dining setup matters, verify that explicitly when you reach out.
No tasting menu details are confirmed in available data, so a direct verdict is not possible. What is documented is a €€ price point and two consecutive Michelin Plate years (2024, 2025), which signals consistent quality without fine-dining pricing. If a tasting format is available, that price-to-recognition ratio makes it a reasonable case for trying it.
At a €€ price point with two years of Michelin Plate recognition, yes — this is Honfleur's value case for considered modern cooking. You are not paying SaQuaNa prices, and you are not getting SaQuaNa ambition, but the inspectors found the food worth noting twice. For a weekend trip where you want one reliable dinner without a high-stakes bill, it earns its place.
It works for a low-key celebration — a birthday dinner or anniversary where the priority is good food over theatre. The Michelin Plate gives it credibility, and the €€ pricing means you are not overcommitting. If the occasion calls for a grander room or a starred kitchen, SaQuaNa is the Honfleur upgrade; Entre Terre et Mer is the smarter call when the meal itself matters more than the setting's prestige.
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