Acte 2

Acte 2 is the 30-cover chef-owned bistro that the Avignon food press broke in 2018 and that has been a Bib Gourmand fixture since 2020. The restaurant occupies a narrow storefront on Rue Carnot, three minutes from the Place de l'Horloge. Chef-owner Florent Legrand previously cooked at L'Essentiel in Aix-en-Provence and at Le Prieuré in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon; his partner Virginie runs the dining room.

The menu is short, market-driven, and changes weekly. The format is a choice of a four-course set menu (€55 lunch, €68 dinner) or a seven-course tasting (€85 dinner only). Signature dishes rotate with the market; the fixed points are a pasta course (made in-house), a long-braised meat main (lamb shoulder, pork cheek, beef cheek depending on the season), and a cheese plate with three Provençal producers. Desserts are simple and well-executed — a caramelised rice pudding with citrus zest is the most-repeated plate.

The wine list is short (70 labels), organic-leaning, and marked up at roughly 2x retail (rather than the 3–4x of the starred rooms). The service is Virginie Legrand alone at most sittings, with a single backup on weekend nights. The pace is deliberate; dinner runs two hours, not three.

Lunch menu is €55 for four courses. Dinner is €68 for four or €85 for seven. The tasting menu is only offered at dinner and requires ordering at booking. Pairings are +€35 for four courses.

Acte 2 is the Avignon team dinner for groups of four to six. The 30-cover room is the whole restaurant; reserving a group of six effectively occupies a quarter of the capacity and creates a convivial dining-room feel. The €55 four-course lunch is a practical post-meeting option; the €85 dinner tasting is the city's best-value serious-kitchen dinner. For a solo diner, the two-tops by the window are the preferred seats.