La Fourchette

Very nice restaurant. Service was warm and welcoming. Asparagus salad and escargot both excellent. However, The main gambas dish was underwhelming and should only be an appetizer. I asked the waiter if he would recommend and said it was great, they always say that. Wish he would have taken the time to assist and describe more. The pork main was very good and the deserts were incredible.

Very friendly staff and delicious food! I enjoyed the beef stew and the escargot! The pistachio cheesecake was my son’s favorite.

A very pleasant meal at this lovely restaurant close to the Popes’ Palace - it offers a €45 dinner set which includes starter, main and dessert which is a very good value. Ordered grilled aubergines with crushed tomatoes, Burgundy snails with butter, garlic, and herbs & calamari with caramelised cabbage as starters, followed by mains which we ordered Hake fillet with chorizo, Avignon-style beef stew, Veal hanger steak with pepper sauce & Roasted Iberian presa with garlic confit. Everything is well seasoned but the highlight is the beef stew which the beef is so soft, slightly let down by the pork which part was undercooked and a bit raw pink. The staff will attend the table with a whole list of desserts on the day for which we had a pistachio cheesecake, a lemon tart and a French Profiteroles with ice cream and hot chocolate sauce to pour over, which was our favourite of the night. No doubt our favourite restaurant in Avignon and booking in advance is recommended as the place got booked up quickly!

The service is top notch! We did not have a reservation, yet the staff ensured we were able to dine within the hour. The food was divine and affordable with a variety of fresh choices on pre fixe. Ambiance perfect - social and cheerful. Highly recommend!

recomend by our host. the dinner went well. we started with cheakpeas salad with the notes of sisho, which becoming fusion like japanese style. the escargot was nice. main onglet (hanging tender) beef steak was fantastic. the white chateauneuf du pape 👍. the selection of wines is vast.

Incredibly delicious food and great service! I’m also impressed by the whole team are super attentive to all guests in a discreet yet warm and professional manner. Probably the best dining experience I’ve ever had! If you ever visit Avignon, this restaurant is a must to come!

Really a family style restaurant with authentic French cuisine. The flavor is a bit on the salty side but not much, maybe I just have a very sensitive palate. Portion is generous. Warm, cosy ambience and very friendly staff. Menu has more choices than most places I’ve been to in Avignon and I recommend the fish.

A bit crowded place, but it is worth going there as the food is very good

One of my favorite meals during this trip was at La Fourchette! I did a weekday lunch walk-in without a reservation, and I was promptly seated. For about twenty five euros, I had a three-course prix-fixe menu. The main course's duck confit and dessert's creme puff with speculoos ice cream were two of my favorite bites. The duck confit was generously portioned and came with freshly roasted small potatoes, mushrooms, sweet potato puree, and roasted garlic. I tried each ingredient separately then together to make the perfect bite, and they were all fantastic. I was already borderline stuffed when I realized that I could still have dessert. The speculoos ice cream came in a massive sphere, sandwiched between a large cream puff cut in half, accompanied by a separate cup of chocolate syrup to be drizzled over the entire plate. My plate had only smears of chocolate by the time I finished. My waitress was very kind and patient with me as she went over the menu in English. The owner also stopped by twice to say hi to me and nearby patrons. Overall, La Fourchette seems to be an upscale, modern bistro that served hearty meals.

This was our first visit to the La Fourchette post pandemic. The service was professional, but they certainly did not hover. When the server came to take our order, she said they had several entree and main course additions to the menu. We each chose entrees from the additions, my wife, a baby artichoke salad, and me asparagus and Gouda cheese salad. Both were delicious and nice portions. For main courses, we remained with choices from the printed menu. My wife chose a filet of Daurade Royale (Sea Bream) with a basil sauce, which she loved, and I chose the Daube de Boeuf Avignonaisse, slowly cooked beef cheeks in a rich red wine sauce with carrots and mushrooms. Wow, this dish was so delicious. I had forgotten how good this dish is when prepared by a talented chef. They brought out a small bowl of deep-fried potato puffs. The latter was my only minor complaint. They lacked salt. Shirley opted for a petit cafe, which was accompanied by a mini ball of raspberry sorbet. I got a dessert portion of lemon sorbet, super tart. We shared a half bottle of 2020 Gigondas. We loved everything about our meal, delicious, generous portions, and the price which we thought was reasonable. The ambiance and decor haven't changed at all since our first time there, probably 10 years ago.

We did a quick stop here for some wine and the staff was wonderfully warm to us and accommodating. The wine we ordered which we recommend you go to the winery close by to see is the Cheateau Mont-Redon Côtes Du Rhône.

We had a very nice meal here. The ambiance was terrific and the staff exceptionally accommodating. Each menu item was well explained and the server helped us choose best to suite our taste. Also easily made room for our celiac issue. Our server also helped guide me to a wonderful bottle of 2019 Chateau de la Gardine Chateauneuf-du-Pape which was exceptionally well priced and was a perfect accompaniment to our cow cheek second plate. We had a thoroughly enjoyable evening but overall I'd rate the food 3.5 stars.

We had an awesome meal here tonight! The staff translated everything for us in great detail. The escargot was our favorite item! The cold pea soup was refreshing although not especially noteworthy. Our main courses were great and very flavorful- tons of fresh herbs. Desserts were also fantastic, the puffed pastry being the better of the two. We especially loved that this meal was less than 100€ and felt super expensive!! Great service and white table cloth service.

This review should be 4-1/2 stars. We had two meals here. The first was five star. The food, service, wine, atmosphere were all outstanding. At the second meal the food was not quite as good. It isn't that the food was bad, it just wasn't as incredible as the previous choices. I think they really shine in the lighter dishes.

I would have eaten here every night! Excellent service. Delicious food. Epic wines. Away from all the touristy spots.

What a special treat!! Service and food was exceptional! My wife had sea bass while I enjoyed the pork dish. The staff was very helpful with our lake of French knowledge... so appreciative!!

We had passed by this restaurant two nights in a row, and both times it was completely packed - so we decided to make a reservation. The good: It is very nice inside, and has a great wine list. The wait staff were attentive and willing to make food substitutions. However, i just don't think the food is up to par, i am not sure why this place was so full, my guess is that some nearby hotels are sending people over here. Or perhaps it was an off-night. I had a sausage and lentil plate appetizer - sausage was like boiled spam. Also had the equivalent of braised beef - i've head much better versions of that in the US. The best thing i had there was the dessert. I'd say, keep looking for other restaurants because there are much better ones in the town.

Don't miss the pavlova ! Raspberries, raspberry sorbet, excellent meringue. Daube was excellent. Asparagus soup was delicious. Service was perfect. Very nice dining room. Go !

Delicious and excellent service; they squeezed us in at closing time 10 pm and still served us two of the chef's mains & dessert with smiles. My first time having bone marrow and it was yummy.

Very nice meal and service - if you can stick to the French menu do so - it all sounds better in French than the rather butchered english version. We had a really nice bottle of lirac to drink which was a recommendation of our server. My wife had a beautiful pumpkin soup with foie gras floating in the middle - truly an amazing combination of sweet and salty. I had the lamb liver with raisins for my main - very yummy and we had a cheese course to end it - though the patisseries looked great. Very old school with a split it seemed half and half between the French and tourists on the Tuesday night that we were there. The food was classic french - nothing crazy - very approachable and very good. Fantastic value for money.

Do not miss the excellent food and attentive service at La Fourchette! The staff and owners created an absolutely marvelous meal for us.

Enjoyed a relaxing lunch with co-workers recently. Very nice meal and atmosphere. Escargots firsts and beef mains were very good.

Very good food, especially their sauces with the scallops and escargot!! But not much of a wine selection unless you want a full bottle! Snug seating as usual but very good waiters and they help with interpreting the French menu (we're from the US and just learning our French)!

Absolutely charming Bistro in Avignon Can't agree with earlier reviewer who suggested it's a tourist trap. Only frogs as far as we could see. The ambiance is charming with dozens of antique forks on the wall to provide the namesake. It's cozy and warm so a great setting for a date. Food is bistro++ regional fare.We had salmon with Lentils du Puy and a delicate fish ravioli as starters. Scallops with spinach and a beef daube for mains. As said, food was bistro++ and not haute cuisine. Paid €55 per person including two glasses of champagne and a bottle of Gigondas Red. Good value. Happy to come back next trip.

We went to this place on the trusted recommendations from TripAdvisor, unfortunately this was a huge letdown. The restaurant interior is quite homey with various different types of forks hanging from the walls. But, we quickly realized that mostly everyone there was a tourist, speaking mostly English. This was definitely none other than a tourist trap which we tried to avoid like the plague. The waitress took about 30 minutes to finally get to our table to take our order at which point several of the items on their menu were not available. She suggested several different dishes which my husband and I agreed upon. The appetizers were less than mediocre and the entrees were terrible. The food was either over salted or under-seasoned. Let's just say that any meal at a TJIF's would have been better than this. The dessert we literally left untouched because it was beyond bad. Not only was the food terrible but it was extremely over priced, at about $40 USD per person for this type of low quality food and service was absurd. I would not recommend anyone go to this restaurant unless you are looking for over priced, less than average food with very slow and unenthusiastic service.

I stumbled across La Fourchette one evening and made a mental note to return because I liked the way it looked. I asked my hotel concierge to make a reservation they agreed it was one of the best. And it was. The service was friendly and efficient and the dishes were creative without being pretentious or overly pricey. The food was simply outstanding. Try as many dishes as you can because each one is a culinary delight. I highly recommend visiting this restaurant if you get the chance!

Contrary to other reviews here, I didn't see this place as a big tourist trap. Yes, there was a big band of Chinese tourists seated, all eating the same courses at the same time all the way through their prix fixe menu, but I also saw a few tables of French-speaking diners (or... maybe they're tourists too, from other parts of France). But just because you see tourists all around you doesn't mean the restaurant is a tourist trap, or that it serves horrible food. If people complain about that, they need to learn the native language of wherever they want to find "non-touristy" food, and venture outside the city center to find the small underdecorated dining rooms that serve what real people around there eat. Anyway, tourists tend to come eat at the earlier hours, so how can they complain that everyone else is a tourist, when they are eating out 2-3 hours earlier than the locals in France? The restaurant staff (who I found to be kind and patient) did not speak English (only some words here and there), but they do have their menu in English. We got the 3-course prix fixe for 35 euros. For starter, I had a shrimp, avocado, and grapefruit salad (it was off the menu but recommended), and it was nice and fresh. We all got the beef daube (La daube de bœuf à l'Avignonnaise), since we wanted to try a Provencal specialty. The meat was very tender and flavorful. It came with a gratin de macaronis which I wasn't too interested in. For dessert I had the sorbets, which was good. For the price, it's a little bit above average, compared to NYC standards, but we enjoyed the meal and the cozy atmosphere.

I found the staff to be rude and unhelpful. Food was no where worth the price and I struggle understand how they can run out of menu item in less than 30 minutes into the service.

Loved this little bistrot, just a couple blacks from the Palais des Papes. For dinner, the Prix Fixe menu is required at 33 euro, including an entree, main plat, and dessert. I had the beef and C had the scallops. Both were great! (Had the crevette pilaf for an apertif, which was excellent as well, though I was a bit sorry I passed on the escargot. That looked great as well!) Service was attentive and the wine list was very reasonable a restaurant located near such a touristy area. Could easily walk past the place without even noticing it's there, but inside is quite cozy. Strongly recommended!

The daube with mac and cheese is insanely good. A three course meal is about 30 euros per person, but so worth it. Just off the Place de l'Horlage, but not touristy.

I can hardly express how good this restaurant is and how high the quality of food is. So with my stomach on the brink of exploding all I can say is: Fab Fab Fab!

This restaurant in Avignon is so good words cannot describe it. The food is absolutely outstanding. The service is first rate. As an American in a foreign city I felt as welcome as if I was around the corner from home. I would urge you to visit if you are in Avignon, but you absolutely must make reservations.

Fantastic! Great food at reasonable prices. We got the price fix menu. Great salmon appetizer. Amazing beef stew dish for dinner.