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Restaurants in Reims
Here are a few of our favorite places to eat in and around town. In addition to the restaurants listed, consider Le Parc and Le Jardin inside Les Crayères.
- French
L’Alambic
This restaurant in a low-ceilinged, window-free champagne cellar might not appeal if you’re claustrophobic, but you’d be missing out on a unique experience and delicious French food. The desserts, such as the homemade lemon tart, are particularly good and the plat du jour is…$$Around Town - Modern French
L’Assiette Champenoise
With three Michelin stars, this ultra-stylish restaurant in a 19th-century half-timbered manor house in a suburb of Reims, will knock your culinary socks off. Chef Arnaud Lallement (pictured) cooks up creative dishes using the finest French seasonal ingredients, such as scallops from…$$$Tinqueux - Seafood
Le Bocal
Hidden in the back of a fish store (it's right across form the city's fascinating covered market), Le Bocal is a surprisingly genteel place to take a meal. Once you head past the display cases, with fresh catches proudly laid on piles of ice, and up the industrial-looking stairway,…$$Around Town - French Fusion
Le Bouillon des Halles
On the west side of the curved Art Deco indoor market, this contemporary restaurant is the perfect place for a buzzy lunch, dinner or Sunday brunch (25€). Market-fresh produce creates the likes of scallops roasted with mango and passion fruit or pork fillet with truffle polenta. Also…$$Around Town - French
Le Café du Palais
Reims has some lovely examples of Art Deco architecture, not least this attractive caf run by the same family since 1930. The grandes assiettes are a popular choice: “La Champenoise” consists of jambon de Reims (coarsely cut ham terrine) and local Chaource cheese accompanied by…$$Around Town - French
Le Jamin
Classic, unpretentious dishes are given a dash of modern flair at this popular restaurant, where the chef is wont to come out and chat with the customers at the end of the meal service. The menu might include a sautéed cod in champagne, or steak with a light mustard sauce. Finish off…$$Around Town - Modern French
Le Millénaire
This is the place to se faire un petit plaisir, that is, spoil yourself. You'll do so on dishes that are either wonderfully creative—a recent melon soup with crispy bacon croutons was a delightful, and refreshing, take on that old standby of canteloupe wrapped in prosciutto—or…$$$Around Town



