7 Best Restaurants in Corsica, France

Just two minutes from the port of Bonifacio, this stylish restaurant in the center of the Acheda Lodge de Charme overlooks a luxurious garden with a pool and splashing fountain. L'A Cheda uses local products whether they be from the hotel’s own organic vegetable garden or from a long list of area providers of olive oil, charcuterie, and cheeses. The restaurant also hosts musical evenings and cooking courses.

Inside the Sofitel Golfe d'Ajaccio, La Carte Postale presents a sedate ambience with floor-to-ceiling pillars, candlelit tables, and a pianist tickling the ivories. The kitchen incorporates Corsican flavors into contemporary cuisine. An assortment of sheep and goat cheeses are from local producers.

Fresh produce is a hallmark of this restaurant’s daily-changing Mediterranean-style menu, achieved with the help of its own prolific garden. Set within the Grand Hôtel de Cala Rossa, you’ll find dishes featuring aromatic herbs, raspberries, wild strawberries, and much more.

Formerly an 18th-century manor house and grounds, this award-winning stylish restaurant in a beautiful conservatory at La Signoria Hotel is cheese heaven, stocking 40 different Corsican varieties. Dinner highlights include a starter of pressed duck foie gras with local figs and sautéed veal with wild mushrooms. The restaurant has an Art Nouveau style in a spectrum of colors ranging from terracotta to olive green to sky blue.

Within the five-star Hôtel La Villa perched high amid rambling hills overlooking the ocher-color Old Citadel, La Table by La Villa offers such memorable dining highlights as varied as oeuf mollet frit (poached eggs with celery, mushrooms, and black truffles); carpaccio of John Dory and spider crab with fennel, fresh coriander, and shiso leaves; and braised pigeon breast with confit of pigeon leg, porcini mushrooms, and dried fruits.

With their warm welcome and attentive service, chef Jean-Paul Bartoli and his wife make this year-round restaurant at the port a popular dining spot. The couple serves carefully selected and prepared seafood, including seared tuna steaks and a mixed dish of octopus, cuttlefish, and squid, along with fine Corsican sausage and traditional cuisine from soups to fiadone (cheesecake).

At this eatery about 10 minutes from downtown Ajaccio, simple furnishings and decor are comfortably overshadowed by a spectacular ocean view and a fine seafood menu, which has featured everything from cuttlefish to octopus. Family-run since 1956, this restaurant flourishes with secret recipes handed down from generations. History can still be found in the fireplace lounge, where velvet chairs and family paintings date back to 1920.