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Top 25 French restaurants based in France
RevenueBase identified 1,107 french restaurants headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 9,225 professional contacts across them, including 621 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers french restaurants headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest french restaurants based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,040 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’enseigne mythique Hippopotamus est plus que jamais une marque intergénérationnelle célèbre pour son savoir-faire viande depuis plus de 50 ans.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 643 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “De la gestion de restaurants traditionnels à celle de restaurants d’entreprises, scolaires ou hospitaliers ainsi que la livraison de plateaux repas et un service traiteur, Dupont…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 494 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 441 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Pataterie est une marque forte avec un ADN ancré dans les territoires français depuis 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 372 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Crescendo Restauration, depuis 1992, a pour concept de cuisiner des plats traditionnels et de saison devant les clients par nos équipes le matin même.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 203 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Serenest by Vermaat, une famille de passionnés de cuisine et de bons produits, un acteur de la restauration d'entreprise depuis 2016!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 165 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Maison de famille depuis 1924” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fondé il y a plus de 25 ans, le Groupe Bourdoncle est aujourd’hui une référence incontournable dans le paysage des brasseries et restaurants traditionnels en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boire et manger à la française Des brasseries en plein Paris qui défendent ardemment l'art de vivre à la française Cuisine tradi 100% maison, produits français, frais et de saison.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Installé dans le Musée de l'Homme, le restaurant offre une cuisine française branchée et un cadre exceptionnel en première ligne face à la tour Eiffel.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “French Restaurant, Place Pigalle” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pour la petite histoire… Comme celle que vous racontait votre maman avant de dormir.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Les Restaurants & Brasseries Paul Bocuse ce sont 9 établissements basés dans la capitale de la gastronomie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Gérard Joulie est l'un des principaux acteurs sur le secteur des grandes brasseries parisiennes, sur lequel une bénéficie d'une notoriété basée sur un réel savoir faire…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les activités du Groupe Bernard Loiseau se répartissent entre la Bourgogne et Paris.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Il y a plus de 15 ans, Julien, Laurent et Alban ont crée La Bonbonnière en ouvrant un premier restaurant à Paris : Les Fils à Maman.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ce lieu chargé d’histoire, mélangeant baroque et art nouveau, est né en 1843.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RODIZIO BRAZIL 1ER DE FRANCE® 🥇Best restaurant brésilien grâce à ᴠᴏs avis 🥩Concept viande à volonté Elu cuisine du monde @ldc_quality Lille - Paris - Marseille” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Maison Faber Lascombes, c'est avant tout l'esprit de famille." Des restaurants chaleureux et épicuriens, toujours fidèles au Sud-Ouest - La Brasserie Bordelaise à Bordeaux, rue…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Can a bouchon serve gastronomic cuisine?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis 2016, les restaurants DAROCO partagent avec les épicuriens contemporains leur vision de l’italianità, un joyeux mélange entre la générosité solaire de la cuisine italienne…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Notre groupe Brasseries à la mode a pour but de dépoussiérer l'univers magique de la brasserie, des lieux uniques qui symbolisent notre culture gastronomique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In the centre of the Parisian Golden Triangle, nestled within a superb 19th century private mansion, the gastronomic restaurant Le Clarence, awarded two stars by the Michelin…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Monsieur Bleu est un lieu exceptionnel, élégant et intemporel, qui a été imaginé et conçu par Joseph Dirand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis sa création en 2009, le Groupe Black Code œuvre à réinventer et faire découvrir le patrimoine culturel et gastronomique de l’Asie, grâce à ses enseignes de restauration…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: french restaurants. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names french restaurants.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of french restaurants, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name french restaurants. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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French restaurants based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 1,107 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among french restaurants, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “french restaurants”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names french restaurants), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among french restaurants, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 621 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
French restaurants by metro
- French restaurants in Paris251
- French restaurants in Lyon40
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names french restaurants, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many french restaurants are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 1,107 french restaurants headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Hippopotamus, headquartered in Courbevoie, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most french restaurants?
Paris leads with 251 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (40) and Bordeaux (22).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 621 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,107 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.