Racines

Racines is a centre-city Toulon restaurant presenting a producer-driven, seasonal cuisine that combines refinement and gourmandise. The chef and team are passionate about high-quality ingredients: they select and work raw products to reveal balanced flavours on the plate and prepare homemade dishes. The restaurant emphasizes local sourcing from producers of the region, favouring organic or sustainably farmed ingredients. Vegetables are highlighted as primary components, with carefully crafted vegetarian and vegan options. Racines is recognised by Gault&Millau and the Michelin Guide and holds the Collège Culinaire de France label, reflecting long-standing relationships with regional growers, winemakers and artisans. The menu changes regularly according to arrivals and seasons, and the team organises evenings with local producers, vintners and brewers; for festive periods the restaurant publishes special set menus for Christmas and New Year with advance booking deadlines. Situated near Toulon Opera and the port, Racines offers a warm, welcoming dining room and a non-smoking terrace. The setting combines an urban table atmosphere with a nature-focused, cosy ambience. In-house, Racines cooks seasonal, producer-focused French cuisine that emphasises freshness, balanced plates and vegetable-forward preparations. Contemporary techniques are rooted in showcasing raw ingredients. Specialties include black rice risotto with squid and Aveyron chorizo, chickpea hummus with seared scallops and eryngii mushrooms, and duck magret with stone-milled polenta and seasonal organic vegetables. The catch of the day is served with fregola sarda risotto and organic vegetables, alongside a vegan organic vegetable plate and a cheese plate from regional producers.