In France, wine is acceptable pretty much any time of day, everything is made with butter, and food is an important part of the culture.
So it's only natural that the country has long been a gastronomic powerhouse. France is home to five restaurants topping the World's 50 Best Restaurants list and a whopping 609 Michelin-starred restaurants.
We decided to see what other culinary delights France has to offer by putting together our own catalog of the country's crème de la crème.
Here are 21 restaurants everyone should eat at in France.
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Mirazur features Mediterranean-inspired food with an Argentine twist, thanks to its Argentine-born chef, Mauro Colagreco. Located in Menton, on the French Riviera, the restaurant boasts views as revelatory as its dishes, and was awarded two Michelin stars as well as the No. 11 spot on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list.
Chef Alain Passard was ahead of his time when he opened a biodynamic farm outside of Paris to supply his restaurant years ago (veggies are picked fresh daily, transported to the city by high speed train), shocking diners when he wrote off red meat and seafood in favor of vegetables in 2001. Today, Paris' L'Arpège is rated number 12 in the world by World's 50 Best Restaurants, with simple dishes like an egg becoming world famous, and emulated globally.
La Bouitte, meaning "little house" in the local dialect, was once just that, in the middle of a potato field in Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, purchased by a French couple in 1976. Over the years, remaining in the family, it has turned into a luxury chalet, surrounded by the Saint-Marcel ski slopes and boasting a restaurant with three Michelin stars, helmed by a father and son duo. The food, like the chalet, manages to be both modern and rustic — think haute comfort food — and is inspired by the surrounding mountains and lakes, with ingredients like lake trout and chanterelles from the forest.
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