Best Restaurants Open on Sunday in Bordeaux 2026

Why a Sunday list matters in Bordeaux

Bordeaux runs a serious set of Michelin stars, but they keep the strictest weekend closures in the city. Le Pressoir d’Argent Gordon Ramsay holds two stars and shuts Sunday and Monday; L’Observatoire du Gabriel, also two stars, does the same; the gastronomic Saint-James above the river closes for the weekend too. A diner who books the best room in Bordeaux for a Sunday night will reach a recorded message. The pattern is consistent enough that the useful question is not which star to book, but which brasserie the starred chefs leave open on a Sunday.

The answer is the brasserie tier, and it is no consolation prize. Philippe Etchebest runs a seven-day brasserie inside the Grand Théâtre, Gordon Ramsay runs one at the InterContinental beneath his two-star room, and the Gabriel keeps its bistro open below the starred dining room. Add La Tupina, the Southwest temple that has cooked over an open fire since 1968, and the waterfront brunch at the Bassins à flot. The order below opens in the centre at Place de la Comédie and runs out to the docks. Hours are checked against each restaurant’s published schedule. For the wider week, start with the Bordeaux dining guide.

The Sunday list

Le Quatrième Mur

French brasserie · Place de la Comédie, Bordeaux · €45–75 per head

Sunday hours: Sunday, 12:00–16:00 and 19:00–00:30

Philippe Etchebest’s Le Quatrième Mur fills a grand room inside the Grand Théâtre on Place de la Comédie, the most central upscale table that opens on a Sunday. The kitchen cooks a polished brasserie menu, the set lunch a genuine bargain at around forty euros and dinner landing closer to seventy-five. It opens Sunday for both lunch and a late dinner, running to past midnight, and closes only on Monday. Book the dining room a week ahead, and take the menu of the day rather than the carte for the best value under the Théâtre’s gilt ceilings.

Le Bordeaux Gordon Ramsay

French brasserie · InterContinental Le Grand Hôtel, Bordeaux · €55–90 per head

Sunday hours: Sunday, 12:00–14:30 and 19:00–22:30

Le Bordeaux is Gordon Ramsay’s brasserie on the terrace of the InterContinental Le Grand Hôtel, directly across from the Grand Théâtre, and it trades seven days a week beneath the two-star Pressoir d’Argent upstairs. The menu reads Southwest French with a British accent, strong on the rotisserie and the seafood, with a meal around fifty-five to ninety euros. Sunday runs lunch and dinner, with a brunch the same morning. Take a terrace table for the Théâtre view, the prettiest Sunday seat in the city centre.

La Tupina

French Southwest · Saint-Michel, Bordeaux · €55–90 per head

Sunday hours: Sunday, 12:00–14:00 and 19:00–23:30

La Tupina has cooked the food of the Southwest over an open fire at 6 rue Porte de la Monnaie in Saint-Michel since 1968, a smoky farmhouse room hung with copper and game. The duck cooked in its own fat, the frites in duck fat and the rotisserie chicken are the order, with a meal landing around fifty-five to ninety euros. It opens Sunday for lunch and dinner and closes only on Monday. Sit near the hearth in winter and order the Southwest as the kitchen intends it, generous and unhurried.

Le Gabriel

French bistro · Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux · €40–65 per head

Sunday hours: Sunday brunch 11:30–15:00, lunch & dinner to 22:30

Le Gabriel occupies a grand 18th-century building on Place de la Bourse facing the Miroir d’Eau, with a two-star dining room above and the bistro Le 1544 on the first floor. The bistro is the Sunday room: chef Alexandre Baumard cooks an Aquitaine-rooted menu supplied by the house farm, with a Sunday brunch from 11:30 and service through to 22:30. A meal runs around forty to sixty-five euros. Book a window table over the square and watch the water mirror flood and drain across the afternoon.

Café Maritime

French brasserie · Bassins à flot, Bordeaux · €35–55 per head

Sunday hours: Sunday, 11:00–14:30 (brunch)

Café Maritime fills a 700-square-metre dockside hangar at 1 Quai Armand Lalande, out at the Bassins à flot, the most relaxed upscale Sunday in the city. Sunday is its all-you-can-eat brunch, eleven to half past two, at thirty euros a head, with the regular brasserie carte running closer to fifty. It is the value pick and the easiest table to fill, a long bright room with water on three sides. Come late morning, take a table by the glass, and let the Sunday brunch run into the early afternoon.

How to book a Sunday table in Bordeaux

The first rule of a Bordeaux Sunday is to stop chasing stars: Le Pressoir d’Argent and the gastronomic rooms are closed, so book a brasserie instead. Le Quatrième Mur and Le Bordeaux Gordon Ramsay both take reservations and both reward a week’s notice for a Sunday lunch in the city centre, the prime slot here. La Tupina fills with locals and visitors alike for its Sunday fireside lunch, so reserve a few days ahead. Le Gabriel’s Sunday brunch over the Miroir d’Eau books up by Friday. Café Maritime is the easiest table to land at short notice. For a solo Sunday, the bar at Le Quatrième Mur and a counter seat at Le Gabriel are the friendliest perches and a fine solo-dining move. Hosting visiting clients on a Sunday? The Théâtre-view terrace at Le Bordeaux is built for it; see more options for impressing a client in Bordeaux.

Frequently asked questions

Are any Michelin restaurants open on Sunday in Bordeaux?

The starred dining rooms are not. Le Pressoir d’Argent Gordon Ramsay and L’Observatoire du Gabriel, both two stars, close Sunday and Monday, and the gastronomic Saint-James shuts for the weekend too. What does open is the brasserie tier the same chefs run: Gordon Ramsay’s Le Bordeaux trades downstairs from his two-star room, and the Gabriel keeps its bistro open below the starred one. For a serious Sunday, those are the answer.

Is La Tupina open on Sunday in Bordeaux?

Yes. La Tupina at 6 rue Porte de la Monnaie in Saint-Michel opens Sunday for lunch from noon and dinner from 7pm, and closes only on Monday. The Southwest institution has cooked over an open fire since 1968, and a meal of duck, duck-fat frites and rotisserie chicken runs about fifty-five to ninety euros. Book a few days ahead and ask for a table near the hearth.

Where can I get a good Sunday brunch in Bordeaux?

Two strong options. Café Maritime out at the Bassins à flot runs an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch from 11am to 2:30pm at about thirty euros a head, in a bright dockside hangar. In the centre, Le Gabriel serves a Sunday brunch over the Miroir d’Eau on Place de la Bourse from 11:30. Both are full-service rooms rather than buffets of the supermarket kind, and both book up for the prime late-morning slots.

What is the best-value restaurant open Sunday in Bordeaux?

For a sit-down lunch, Le Quatrième Mur. Philippe Etchebest’s brasserie inside the Grand Théâtre runs a menu of the day at around forty euros, a genuine bargain for cooking of this polish in the old centre, and it opens both Sunday lunch and dinner. For brunch, Café Maritime’s thirty-euro spread at the docks is the cheapest upscale Sunday table in town.

Do Bordeaux restaurants close on Sunday and Monday?

Many of the best do, yes. The gastronomic and starred kitchens overwhelmingly close Sunday and Monday to give their teams two days off, which is why a weekend visitor needs a list like this one. The exceptions are the brasseries and the Southwest institutions, which trade through the weekend; several of them, including La Tupina and Le Quatrième Mur, close Monday instead.

Hours verified against each restaurant's published schedule as of May 2026; confirm directly before travelling. Restaurants for Kings is editorial, not sponsored. Some reservation links may earn an affiliate commission, which never affects a ranking or a score.