Le Petit Bedon

Reviews

• Karen Q.

  star star star star star 23 June 2026

  We visited this restaurant based on the recommendation of our hotel.  It's a very small place, and it feels like you are in someone's livingroom.  THere is one waiter, who was wearing a suit, and took his job very seriously, welcoming us into the place.  We had a great meal, from wine to the appetizer to the dessert.  The wines are all from the Provence region.  This waiter while very professional and not at all stuffy given the fairly upscale pricing.  All in all, a very, very good experience.  Great food, great wine, great ambiance and all for a reasonable price. Highly recommend.

• Simon W.

  star star star star_border star_border 19 June 2026

  A perfectly serviceable, but very touristy restaurant along one of the principal shopping/eating streets in the centre of Avignon, five brisk minutes walk away from the Pope's Palace. When we went there were no French patrons in what is, to be fair, a pretty bijou restaurant, albeit with both an upstairs and downstairs dining area. The maître d'hôtel is very friendly, speaks very good English ( having worked in Leeds for six years). Our excuse for visiting was that it was Easter Sunday, and the other places we might have preferred to visit ( Christain Etienne, Le 5 Sens, etc) were shut or booked up.
  
  The menu sports a range of quite unsurprising Provencal favourites - I enjoyed foie gras (again) and a fraise sable ( strawberry tart), but I couldn't tell you what I had as a main course. I can tell you it wasn't bad ( and also that I wasn't drunk), but I just can't recall it a week or so after the event. This infers it was unmemorable. I do remember the glass of sweet wine( remember I mentioned the maître d' ? An Anglo-Saxon habit he picked up was clearly upselling) suggested with the foie gras, which was very nice. Beware the French dragon who appears to be 2 i/c of front of house - when asked for more water, she gave us vile Avignon tap water ( very chloriney), not the filtered stuff we'd had before. She, clearly, cleaves to the older style of French service culture. Dinner for two, with wine but no coffee and tip came to about 110 Euros, although you could choose from a cheaper menu.
  
  In sum - nice enough, but I wouldn't make a special visit. Were it outside France, it would be a good French restaurant, but here, it's merely about average.

• Paul G.

  star star star star_border star_border 11 June 2026

  We were pleasantly surprised by how good this bijou neighbourhood restaurant was, considering it seems mainly aimed at English speaking tourists (English on the menu, English speaking patron and waiters). The chef knows what he is doing, and I enjoyed a starter of cold roast rabbit with ratatouille, and a main of monkfish wrapped in bacon, then finished with strawberry millefeuille (see photos). Bill for two with glass of wine and coffee was 80 euros. We would definitely go again.