2023-11-15 18:00:00
After Nice and its amazing Onice, after Marseille and its string of beautiful addresses, after Lille and its charming Ginko and Arborescence, head to the southwest and Toulouse to, once again, eat.
Regularly associated with cassoulet and the famous sausage, the culinary scene of the Pink City is obviously not limited to these 100% local emblems. Like Paris, Lyon or others, it lives to the rhythm of openings, watched by locals and passing gourmets alike. Among our latest forks, here are five restaurants where you can sit down in Toulouse, between market counters, wine bars and gourmet restaurants.
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In June 2022, after five years in the Saint-Sernin district, Guillaume Momboisse closed his restaurant Sept. Since March 2023, he is back on stage, a stone’s throw from the Carmes market. Open kitchen, contemporary lines and warm tones help to relax the codified atmosphere of the gourmet table. The chef’s cuisine, performed in a creative and playful round of around ten courses at lunch and around twenty at dinner, demonstrates solid technique. Tasting format requires, the pleasure sometimes proves fleeting. But a harmonious thread is unwound throughout the meal, from appetizers to desserts, between small, naughty pleasures to glut on with your fingertips (toasted brioche garnished with wagyu ham and marinated beef tartare) and chic marine flights (diaphanous tail langoustine flavored with curry; John Dory fillet and Paimpol coconuts smoked with beech wood…) The historic Sept had won the star. His little brother should imitate him.
11, rue Théodore-Ozenne. Menus: €85 and €135. restaurant-sept.fr
Only a few months of existence for this establishment run by a couple of twenty-somethings – he in the kitchen, she in the dining room – passing through beautiful addresses in the south-east, from Èze to Saint-Tropez. Behind the innocuous facade hides a truly good neo-bistro with straightforward dishes, focused on produce: delicious vitello tonnato with fried capers; fillet of pearly cod, variation of ball and stalk celery… Adopted!
7, rue de l’Industrie. Menu: €25 (lunch). Card: approx. €40. agapes-toulouse
Casa Bomba: the Mediterranean at the party
Tap everything. This is the program of this table, opened last spring by the duo Fabrice Mignot-Guillaume Corona. The two men, already at the initiative of tasteful summer taverns at Biquet Plage and Cap d’Agde, know how to do it when it comes to festive tables. If the pace is sustained, the dishes, with Mediterranean-Levantine influences (lean gravlax in crispy tartlet, roasted eggplant cream; grilled chorizo, green Padrón peppers; beef kebbeh, coriander yogurt, etc.) do not suffer from any false note.
2 bis, place Dupuy. Menu: €25 (lunch) A la carte: €30-40. casabomba.frREAD ALSO Restaurants in Provence: three new addresses to discover urgently
Hortùs: and the light was
Clément Lessoud offers a three-course lunch menu with incredible value for money. The elegance of his creations, graphic, colorful, luminous, is obvious. Just like his mastery of the plant register. Creamy and generous, its risotto with candied lemon and mandolined vegetables is a model of its kind. This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t also sit down there in the evening…
17, rue Croix-Baragnon. Menus: 32 (lunch), 59 and 74 €. hortus-toulouse.fr
L’Arpète: everyone at the market!
The bustling Carmes market has been vibrating a notch higher since the transformation, at the end of 2022, of the former Loge 24, renamed L’Arpète. The atmosphere, always cordial, is now complemented by a beautiful slate fashioned by Rodolphe Lafarge, a self-taught chef who is as skilled in rascally dishes (kidneys with mustard sauce, macaroni gratin; ravigote veal head) as in traveling tapas ( ajo blanco, mussels, grapes; onion fritters, honey, feta…). Since this summer, the place has expanded to the market side with a temperament counter.
Place des Carmes. Menu, à la carte: €30-45. larpete.fr
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