Restaurant in Uzès, France
One star, rooftop cathedral views, book early.
La Table d'Uzès holds a Michelin star for 2025 and sits on a historic square in central Uzès, with a rooftop terrace overlooking the cathedral. Chef Christophe Ducros cooks produce-driven southern French food at €€€€ — coherent, technically precise, and deeply rooted in regional terroir. Book well in advance; this is the strongest table in Uzès by a clear margin.
If you are weighing La Table d'Uzès against La Maison d'Uzès for a serious dinner in this part of the Gard, the Michelin star settles the question quickly: Christophe Ducros is cooking at a demonstrably higher technical level, and the rooftop terrace above Place de l'Evêché gives the room an address that the competition cannot match. Book here when the occasion demands it and your budget can absorb €€€€ pricing. If you want something less structured or less expensive, La Maison d'Uzès is the right fallback. But for a meal anchored in southern French terroir with real precision behind it, La Table d'Uzès is the correct choice in Uzès.
La Table d'Uzès holds a Michelin star for 2025, continuing recognition first awarded in the 2024 guide. The restaurant sits on a square in the historic centre of Uzès, a small market town in the Gard department of the Languedoc-Roussillon region. The setting is not incidental: Michelin's own notes call out the rooftop terrace with its view over the cathedral as a genuine draw, and for a one-star in a town of this size, that combination of culinary rigour and physical location is relatively rare.
The kitchen's identity is built around southern French produce and heritage. Michelin describes the cooking as "balanced, unequivocal dishes of pure-bred southern inspiration," citing the Costières squab roasted whole, breast of free-range poultry with a corn tartlet and bigarade sauce, and a vacherin-style strawberry dessert with whipped vanilla cream and verjuice. These are not dishes designed to show off technique for its own sake. The coherence runs through the whole menu: you are eating the cooking of a chef who has chosen a clear point of view and stuck with it. If you have already eaten here once and found the style persuasive, returning to track what changes seasonally is worthwhile, since the produce-led approach means the menu shifts with what is available in this part of southern France.
For a returning guest, the question is less "is this good?" and more "what is Ducros doing with the format now?" The Michelin entry notes the "overriding coherence" of the menu, which is another way of saying the kitchen is not trying to surprise you at every turn. The intelligence is in the sourcing and the balance, not in theatrical plating. If that approach worked for you on a first visit, it will continue to reward on a second, particularly if you are seated on the terrace in the warmer months when the view of the cathedral and the old town square adds real weight to the experience.
At €€€€ in a town the size of Uzès, the service proposition matters. A one-star in Paris or Lyon at this price tier is competing against dozens of alternatives within walking distance; here, you are making a specific journey to eat this food in this room. That raises the stakes for front-of-house: the service needs to feel considered and attentive without becoming stiff, because the physical setting already does a lot of the work. Google reviewers give the restaurant 4.6 out of 5 across 148 reviews, which for a one-star at this price level suggests the experience is landing well with guests rather than generating the mixed reactions that sometimes accompany ambitious pricing in smaller markets. That is a meaningful signal. If the service were undermining the food, you would see more friction in the review pattern. It appears instead that the two are working in the same direction.
That said, at €€€€ you are entitled to expect a level of attention to detail that goes beyond competent. If you are returning for a second visit, it is worth being explicit when booking about any dietary preferences or occasions. A kitchen cooking at this level will want to know, and a restaurant earning its star in part through coherence and hospitality should be able to accommodate with notice.
La Table d'Uzès is rated hard to book, and the hours confirm why. Lunch runs from 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM Wednesday through Sunday (2:30 PM finish on Saturday), and dinner from 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM on the same days, with Monday and Tuesday closed. The windows are tight, and Uzès is a destination in its own right during the warmer months, attracting visitors from across the Languedoc and from further afield. Book as far in advance as the restaurant allows, particularly for Saturday lunch on the terrace. If your dates are fixed, this is not a venue to leave until a week out. The terrace seats in particular will fill first.
Dinner on a weekday is your leading bet if you need more flexibility: fewer travellers plan their itineraries around a Wednesday night in Uzès. For a special occasion or a Saturday, treat this the same way you would a sought-after Paris one-star: commit early.
For a broader view of where this restaurant sits within the region's dining options, see our full Uzès restaurants guide. You can also explore hotels in Uzès, bars in Uzès, wineries near Uzès, and experiences in Uzès to build out a full stay.
La Table d'Uzès is one of a number of one-stars across provincial France where the combination of serious cooking and a genuinely beautiful setting makes the case for travelling out of the major cities. Mirazur in Menton, Bras in Laguiole, and Flocons de Sel in Megève each make a similar argument in their respective regions: the destination is part of the point. In the south specifically, AM par Alexandre Mazzia in Marseille operates at the three-star level if you want to see how southern French produce gets treated at maximum intensity. Ducros at La Table d'Uzès is working a different register: more grounded, less experimental, with a clear sense of place rather than a chef's personal vocabulary dominating the plate. For comparison across other regions, the approach has something in common with Auberge de l'Ill in Illhaeusern in terms of rootedness to a specific landscape, even if the cuisines are entirely different.
| Venue | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|
| La Table d'Uzès | €€€€ | — |
| Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen | €€€€ | — |
| Kei | €€€€ | — |
| L'Ambroisie | €€€€ | — |
| Le Cinq - Four Seasons Hôtel George V | €€€€ | — |
| Mirazur | €€€€ | — |
Side-by-side comparison to help you decide where to book.
The venue database does not confirm a bar or counter dining option at La Table d'Uzès. Given the one-Michelin-star format and the described stylish setting on Place de l'Évêché, this reads as a seated-table restaurant rather than a bar-dining venue. check the venue's official channels to confirm before arriving with that expectation.
No specific dietary policy is documented for La Table d'Uzès. At €€€€ with Michelin recognition, starred kitchens in France routinely accommodate restrictions when notified at booking — but confirm when reserving, as the kitchen's focus on southern terroir ingredients means some adaptations may be more straightforward than others.
The Michelin guide calls out the Costières squab roasted whole as the dish most representative of chef Christophe Ducros's approach. The breast of free-range poultry with corn tartlet and bigarade sauce and the vacherin-style strawberries with whipped vanilla cream and verjuice are also highlighted. These dishes anchor the southern terroir direction the kitchen is known for.
If the Michelin guide's 2025 recognition reflects the current menu, the tasting format is where Ducros's cooking lands most coherently — the guide specifically praises the 'overriding coherence' of his dishes. At €€€€ in a town the size of Uzès, you are paying for cooking quality rather than a big-city address, which is a reasonable trade if the southern-French terroir direction suits you.
Lunch is the stronger call here. The rooftop terrace overlooking the cathedral in Uzès is a genuine asset, and daylight makes the setting work in a way an evening service cannot replicate. Saturday lunch also runs to 2:30 PM rather than the 2:00 PM cut-off on other days, giving slightly more time. Dinner service opens at 8:00 PM Wednesday through Sunday if evening works better for your schedule.
At €€€€ with a current Michelin star, La Table d'Uzès delivers cooking that would justify the price at most regional addresses in France. The combination of a serious kitchen, a rooftop terrace above an historic cathedral square, and genuine southern terroir cooking makes the case stronger than a comparable spend at an anonymous city one-star. If you are already in the Gard, this is the clear answer for a formal dinner.
Yes, and the setting does a lot of the work. A rooftop terrace on a historic cathedral square in one of the most well-preserved medieval towns in the Languedoc, paired with Michelin-starred cooking, is a straightforward special-occasion formula. Book well ahead — the restaurant is rated hard to book, and the short service windows (90-minute lunch sittings most days) mean tables are limited.
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