Béziers is also a town to enjoy at the table. Two houses with a star in the Michelin Guide, a Bib Gourmand, chefs’ kitchens set in a courtyard, a park or a former prison and, in summer, a guinguette under the pines: here are fourteen addresses to remember for your stay.
Some are tables the guides single out, others are chosen for their setting: ten of the fourteen appear in our magazine.
The two starred tables
Each holds one star in the 2026 Michelin Guide, in two distinct styles: one blends the sea and the kitchen garden, the other unfolds menus in several sequences.
L’Alter-Native
12 rue Boieldieu, Béziers
Gilles Goujon, the three-starred chef of the Auberge du Vieux Puits in Fontjoncouse, opened in the town where he grew up a table that brings together the sea and the plant world. The menu is built around fish and vegetables, and the restaurant grows its own permaculture garden. His sons are part of the venture: Enzo in the kitchen, Axel in pastry. The house received its first star in 2022 and kept it in the 2026 edition.
Calice
30 boulevard Bertrand-Duguesclin, Béziers · in our magazine
A short walk from the theatre and ten minutes on foot from the centre, Calice makes its mark gently. Its first star, awarded in March 2024, was renewed in 2025 and again in 2026. One comes for the purity, the rhythm, the care: the plate is limpid, precise, unadorned, and the menu moves in sequences, as far as an entirely plant-based menu turned towards the gardens of the season. The glass-walled cellar structures the room; the wine list runs to more than 800 references, from the Languedoc-Roussillon to Burgundy. Service is discreet, fluid, attentive.
Chef-led tables
Three houses that carry the signature of their chef, from the seasonal menu to the surprise menu.
L’Ambassade
22 boulevard de Verdun, Béziers
Patrick Olry, president of the Tables Gourmandes du Languedoc, creates an inventive cuisine built on seasonal and regional produce. The menu follows the seasons: scallops in autumn, pan-fried foie gras, a trolley of matured cheeses. A private room allows larger groups to dine together.
La Maison de Petit Pierre
22 avenue Pierre-Verdier, Béziers · in our magazine
In Béziers, Pierre Augé needs no surname. Winner of Top Chef in 2014, he welcomes guests with his wife Fanny in the family house near the arena, where everyone feels expected. You arrive through the garden, cross a quiet courtyard, and dine outside in fine weather; in winter, the room gathers large zinc tables and family photographs. Beneath a great glass roof, you catch a glimpse of the chef and his brigade at work. On the plate, precise technique elevates simple produce: sardine, egg, pork. Two surprise menus, of four and six courses, leave the decision to the chef. Downstairs, a softly lit cellar hosts evening events.
La Table de Jean
23 rue des Anciens-Combattants, Béziers
In a pedestrian lane between the allées Paul-Riquet and the cathedral, chef Dorian Biau creates a bistronomy halfway between a bistro and a gastronomic table. Everything is prepared on site, with the seasons, with producers from the Béziers area. Menus run from two to six courses, the longest discovered blind; in summer, a small terrace opens.
Bistronomy, sharing and wine
Freer addresses, where plates are shared and the wine matters as much as the cooking.
Pica-Pica
20 boulevard Jean-Jaurès, Béziers · in our magazine
At Pica-Pica, you do not come to dine: you pick, you share, you explore. The plates follow one another, lively, careful, often unexpected, from tapas to antipasti, with the “picas”, wood-fired skewers that arrive in pairs. Far from classic tapas, every bite has depth and drive. Marble and zinc recall the brasseries of the 1950s, the room is open and animated, the terrace looks onto place Jean-Jaurès. For two, six or ten: the experience is designed to last. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand in 2020 and still recognises it in 2026.
Cocci
18 boulevard Jean-Jaurès, Béziers · in our magazine
In its second room, Cocci recreates the illusion of an Italian lane: cobbled floor, terracotta walls, a Fiat 500 turned into a banquette. The welcome is sunny, the cooking generous: pizzas, pasta, veal Milanese, and nobler produce such as lobster, foie gras or truffle. The wine list leans mostly towards Italy. Nothing ostentatious, but a real sense of detail, rhythm and pleasure: a joyful, simple and refined interlude.
La Cave Chez Max
6 rue d’Alsace, Béziers · in our magazine
Jean Moulin was born in this house in the heart of Béziers in 1899, a senior civil servant, a hero of the Resistance, a figure of freedom. Memory surfaces quietly here: light plays over the bottles, silence settles under the vaults. The table is bistronomic and locavore, home-made country cooking with garden vegetables and farm produce. The plates are honest, balanced, clear: along the menu, a knife-cut beef tartare, free-range duck breast cooked over a wood fire, a wild Mediterranean fish. On the walls, bottles everywhere, set out like promises: natural and biodynamic cuvées, craft beers. At lunchtime you dine in calm; in the evening, you linger.
La Maison Blanche
24 rue d’Alsace, Béziers · in our magazine
On the same street as the Cave Chez Max, the Maison Blanche practises a precise bistronomy: French cooking revisited with a Spanish touch, home-made tapas to share and a wine bar for the end of the evening. Here the plate embraces pleasure, led by the truffle chicken cordon bleu, now a cult dish. Inside, walls dotted with nods to Béziers speak of a local pride, calm and unforced. You settle in a long patio or on an upstairs terrace, away from prying eyes, and the bottles come mostly from the Languedoc and the Roussillon.
Settings of their own
Here the place is almost part of the menu: an English-style park, a former prison, a canal bank, a vaulted cellar, a château park.
Maison Jullian
1 chemin de Halage du Port-Neuf, Béziers
A late-nineteenth-century Béziers folly, now a restaurant and guest rooms, a few minutes’ walk from the centre. Lunch is served in the former neo-Moorish billiard room, crowned by a seven-metre dome from which hangs a Murano chandelier, or, in fine weather, in the English-style park, in the shade of two two-hundred-year-old trees, a magnolia and a lime. Chef Charles Teboul, formerly sous-chef at the Hôtel Scribe in Paris, champions an author-led, locavore cuisine nourished by the house’s kitchen garden.
Bistro La Prison
Place des Albigeois, Béziers · in our magazine
In the town’s former prison, at the foot of the Saint-Nazaire cathedral, this discreet bistro joins raw memory to an open horizon. From the dining room as from the terrace, the view opens wide over the Orb valley and the Pont-Vieux. On the plate, a concise, precise cuisine that follows the seasons and gives pride of place to regional producers. The place does not try to make you forget its past: it transforms it.
L’Écluse
16 avenue Pierre-Bérégovoy, Villeneuve-lès-Béziers · in our magazine
At the gates of Béziers, under the plane trees, light slips between the glasses and the murmur of the Canal du Midi accompanies every mouthful. The terrace looks onto the water; you can also sit in the dining room or the patio. The cooking, bistronomic and home-made, blends French and Mediterranean: Bouzigues oysters, fish, lamb, beef, tapas to share. Fine produce, clear presentation, classic nods: it cultivates the essentials, for a sincere, precise and straightforward dinner, an interlude held between calm and clarity. Our cycle ride along the Canal du Midi, on the sea side, passes through Villeneuve-lès-Béziers.
Les Louis
2 bis rue Petite-Jérusalem, Béziers · in our magazine
A discreet staircase, a few steps from the cathedral, leads to a vaulted room of unexpected charm. A lively brasserie-pizzeria, Les Louis surprises with its décor: a Virgin in a glass case, vintage signs, angels and popular objects. The sacred meets the kitsch, the strange becomes familiar. Outside, a terrace and a patio complete the room. You feel at ease, welcomed, in a lived-in and sincere disorder.
La Guinguette du Roy
Parc du château Vaisseries, route de Bédarieux, Béziers · in our magazine
Under the pines, facing the château, this open-air guinguette brings summer evenings to life. You pick at generous tapas or share a pizza; glasses clink and, now and then, a peacock crosses the scene. As dusk falls, the stools are raised, the music swells, the garlands light up: you dance, you laugh, you linger. A relaxed, joyful evening in the open air. It opens only in the warm season.
Booking well
Book as soon as your dates are fixed, especially for the starred tables. Days off and service hours vary from one house to another, and some serve only at lunchtime; our team checks them with you. Please mention allergies and dietary requirements when booking.
To match wine to plate, our guide to Hérault wines, appellation by appellation, offers some pointers. To discover the town between meals, follow our two-day itinerary in Béziers. At the covered market, which also features in our magazine, you can taste oysters at the zinc counter, a dish of the day or a glass at the central bar; our article on the markets around Béziers gives it a place.
Where to stay around Béziers
After dinner, the calm of the villa: Villa Andria is in Béziers itself and Villa Joy is in Murviel-lès-Béziers, a short drive from the town. All our homes around Béziers are gathered on the page villa rental in Béziers. Closer to the sea, see also our villas in Sérignan and Agde.
For our guests, our concierge service books the table, arranges the evening’s driver or brings a private chef to the villa. Further towards the coast, our selection of restaurants in Sérignan takes over.
Do you own a villa near Béziers? Our villa management in Béziers presents how we look after your home, from the first stay to the last.
More from our Journal: our selections of restaurants in Agde, beach clubs between Agde and Sérignan and restaurants in Sérignan.
