Restaurant in Versailles, France
Michelin star dining beside the palace grounds.
Gordon Ramsay au Trianon holds a Michelin 1 Star (2024) and sits inside the 1910 Trianon Palace hotel, with head chef Gabriele Ravasio leading a produce-focused creative menu. Dinner-only, Tuesday through Saturday. Book well in advance — Thursday to Saturday slots fill fastest. The setting, a baroque room overlooking the palace grounds, is the strongest in Versailles at this price tier.
Gordon Ramsay au Trianon opens Tuesday through Saturday for dinner only, and the earliest slots midweek are your leading chance at a table without a multi-week wait. The restaurant sits inside the Trianon Palace hotel on the edge of the Versailles palace grounds, and its combination of a Michelin star, a setting this dramatic, and a relatively small dinner-only window means availability tightens fast on Thursday through Saturday. If your travel dates are flexible, Tuesday or Wednesday evening gives you a meaningful booking advantage. Whatever night you choose, contact the hotel directly through its reservations channel — this is not a venue where you should rely on a third-party platform to hold a prime seat.
The Trianon Palace hotel opened in 1910, and the dining room Gordon Ramsay au Trianon occupies is a high-ceilinged baroque space with large bay windows that look directly onto the palace grounds. For a first-timer, the visual weight of that setting is immediate: you are eating in a room designed to impress long before any food arrives. The atmosphere runs formal but not stiff. The room's scale creates a sense of occasion without the hushed, pressurised silence you can find in some comparably priced Parisian dining rooms. Noise carries just enough to feel like a live restaurant rather than a ceremony.
The creative menu is led on-site by head chef Gabriele Ravasio, who has shaped the kitchen's direction around quality produce and restrained technique. Michelin's 2024 assessors flagged the approach as well-managed creativity with appealing flavours, which is a useful calibration for what to expect: this is not a boundary-pushing tasting menu that demands explanation at every course, nor is it conservative classical French. It sits in a productive middle ground, using fine produce in ways that read simply on the plate but reward attention. For a first-timer, that balance is easier to enjoy than the more conceptually demanding end of creative cuisine, and it is part of what makes the Michelin recognition feel proportionate rather than aspirational.
Restaurant holds a Google rating of 4.5 from 327 reviews, which for a venue at this price point and with this level of expectation attached to the Ramsay brand is a solid signal. Ramsay's London flagship at Royal Hospital Road holds three Michelin stars, so a single star in Versailles might read as underperforming the brand. It is not. The Versailles kitchen operates independently, with Ravasio as the culinary lead, and the Michelin category of Remarkable assigned to the hotel context reflects a different brief: a grand hotel dining room delivering high-quality creative cooking with a location advantage no standalone restaurant in the city can match. Compare it on those terms.
Dinner runs between 7:30 PM and 9:30 PM Tuesday through Saturday. The restaurant is closed Sunday and Monday. Given the tight service window, arriving close to your reservation time is advisable — this is not a room where a late arrival will be absorbed easily. The €€€€ price tier puts it in line with the upper end of Versailles dining, comparable to Ducasse au Château de Versailles - Le Grand Contrôle and La Table du 11 at the same price band. Budget accordingly for a full tasting menu with wine pairing, which at this tier in France typically means €150–€250 per person, though exact current pricing should be confirmed at booking.
Dress code is not published in our records, but the room's setting and price tier are clear enough signals: smart to formal dress is appropriate. Arriving underdressed in a baroque grand hotel dining room with a Michelin star will be conspicuous. When in doubt, err toward a jacket for men and evening wear for women.
For special occasions, the location is a genuine differentiator. Very few Michelin-starred restaurants in France offer a view onto royal palace grounds as a standard feature of the dining experience. If you are planning an anniversary, proposal, or significant birthday dinner in the Versailles area, this is the address with the strongest setting argument. La Table du 11 may offer more culinary precision at the same price, but it cannot compete on atmosphere.
If you are spending a full day at the palace and want to close it with a serious dinner, the geography works in your favour. The Trianon Palace hotel is walkable from the palace grounds, making this a logical endpoint for a Versailles day. Pair it with an early palace visit to avoid the tourist peak, and you have a well-structured day that ends at one of the area's stronger dinner addresses. For more on dining and staying in the area, see our full Versailles restaurants guide, our full Versailles hotels guide, and our full Versailles bars guide.
For context on how this venue sits within French Michelin dining more broadly, comparable single-star creative restaurants in France include Alléno Paris au Pavillon Ledoyen and Arpège in Paris, both of which operate at a higher star count but share the produce-focused creative approach. If creative cuisine is the category you want to explore beyond Versailles, Mirazur in Menton and Cocina Hermanos Torres in Barcelona represent different points on the same spectrum. Closer to home in France, Flocons de Sel in Megève, Troisgros in Ouches, Auberge de l'Ill in Illhaeusern, and Bras in Laguiole are the reference points for the category at its highest level.
Gordon Ramsay au Trianon is the right booking if you want a Michelin-starred dinner in a setting that justifies the price on atmosphere alone. Head chef Gabriele Ravasio's produce-led creative menu delivers enough quality to hold the star on its own merits. Book midweek if you can, dress appropriately, and arrive on time. For a first-timer in Versailles who wants one serious dinner, this is the address. Also explore Le Pincemin, La Table des Lumières, and Lafayette if you want to compare your options before committing. See also our Versailles wineries guide and our Versailles experiences guide for the full picture.
| Venue | Cuisine | Price | Awards | Booking Difficulty | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon Ramsay au Trianon | Creative | €€€€ | Category: Remarkable; Opened in 1910 on the edge of the palace grounds, the Trianon Palace hotel makes its authoritative presence known to walkers who get close to it. What better place to host the work – and fiery character! – of Gordon Ramsay, already a three-starred chef in London? Head chef Gabriele Ravasio is on site to bring to life a menu that is a celebration of fine produce, playing on the simplicity and relevance of the dishes. Well-managed creativity, appealing flavours… Everything conspires to make for a most enjoyable experience, and the location certainly plays its part: an elegant and luminous baroque dining space, with bay windows looking straight out onto the grounds.; Michelin 1 Star (2024) | Hard | — |
| Ducasse au Château de Versailles - Le Grand Contrôle | Classic Cuisine | €€€€ | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| La Table du 11 | Modern Cuisine | €€€€ | Michelin 1 Star | Unknown | — |
| La Table des Lumières | Modern Cuisine | €€€ | Unknown | — | |
| Ore | Modern Cuisine | €€ | Unknown | — | |
| Lafayette | Unknown | — |
How Gordon Ramsay au Trianon stacks up against the competition.
Dress formally. The setting is a baroque dining room inside the Trianon Palace hotel, a property that opened in 1910 on the edge of the Versailles palace grounds — the room sets a clear expectation. A Michelin-starred dinner at €€€€ pricing calls for a jacket for men at minimum; avoid casual separates. If you are coming directly from a day at the palace, plan ahead.
Dinner runs 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM Tuesday through Saturday only — Sunday and Monday the restaurant is closed, so plan your Versailles trip around those hours. Head chef Gabriele Ravasio leads the kitchen, working a menu focused on fine produce with a creative but restrained approach. The room itself does a lot of work: large bay windows open onto the palace grounds, and the baroque interior is a genuine part of the experience, not just backdrop.
Groups are workable here, but the narrow two-hour service window (7:30 PM to 9:30 PM) makes coordination important — arrive on time. For larger parties of six or more, contact the Trianon Palace hotel directly rather than relying on standard online booking, as private or semi-private arrangements within a hotel of this scale are more likely to be accommodated with a direct inquiry.
At €€€€, it is worth it if the setting matters to you as much as the food. The Michelin 1 Star (2024) confirms the kitchen is performing at a credible level, and head chef Gabriele Ravasio's focus on produce-led creativity rather than theatrical complexity suits the baroque room. If you want pure culinary value without the palace-adjacent premium, La Table du 11 in Versailles offers Michelin-recognised cooking at a lower price point.
Yes, and few Versailles options match it for occasion density — a 1 Michelin star kitchen, a 1910 baroque dining room with bay windows onto the palace grounds, and the Trianon Palace hotel as backdrop. Birthdays, anniversaries, and post-palace celebration dinners all work well here. Book a Tuesday or Wednesday slot midweek if you want a quieter, less-pressured room than weekend service.
The Michelin inspectors specifically noted well-managed creativity and appealing flavours, which suggests the tasting format — where Gabriele Ravasio's menu logic can play out in sequence — is the right way to eat here. At €€€€, the tasting menu is where the kitchen's produce-led approach is most coherent. If you prefer to eat à la carte on your own terms, that trade-off is worth considering before you book.
Dinner only. The restaurant does not offer lunch service — hours are 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM, Tuesday through Saturday. If you are building a full Versailles day around this meal, plan the palace visit for the morning and afternoon, and arrive at the Trianon Palace hotel in time for the dinner window.
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