Les Grands Buffets menu 2026: what the €65.90 Escoffier menu in Narbonne includes

Published 4 November 2026 · By GetTable

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Les Grands Buffets in Narbonne serve a single menu in 2026, the Grand Menu Escoffier, at €65.90 per person whatever the guest's age, drinks not included. It gives unlimited access to more than 150 starters, main courses and desserts spread over ten buffets, according to the restaurant's official website, checked on 4 November 2026.

Key facts

• One menu only: the Grand Menu Escoffier, €65.90 per person, children included, service included.
• More than 150 starters, main courses or desserts taken from Auguste Escoffier's Guide culinaire, served across ten buffets.
• Drinks are charged on top; the wines on the list are sold at the producer's price.
• No halal dishes; gluten-free products and a large number of products suitable for vegetarians.
• A meal lasts about 3 hours; the cheese and dessert buffets close at 4.15pm at lunch and 11.45pm at dinner.

Les Grands Buffets menu price in 2026

The Les Grands Buffets menu costs €65.90 per person in 2026. The restaurant's "Opening hours and prices" page describes a single price for every guest at the table, whatever their age, with net prices and service included. The price applied is the one in force on the date of the booked meal, not on the day you book.

Les Grands Buffets have no children's menu and give no discount for children. The details are in our article on the children's price at Les Grands Buffets.

The ten buffets of the Grand Menu Escoffier

The Les Grands Buffets menu is made up of ten buffets, listed in this order on the official page:

1. seafood and salmon;
2. foie gras;
3. pâtés en croûte (pies in pastry);
4. charcuterie and terrines;
5. truffle dishes;
6. hot dishes;
7. the cheese board;
8. pastries;
9. flambéed desserts;
10. iced desserts.

The restaurant describes itself as the first restaurant in the world dedicated to Auguste Escoffier. Each dish refers to a recipe from his Guide culinaire, whose first edition the official page dates to 1903. The buffet pages give the recipe's page number in the 1907 edition.

Dishes on the Les Grands Buffets menu

The Les Grands Buffets seafood buffet offers fish soup, a royal seafood platter with its cascade of lobsters, oysters from the Étang de Thau, snow crab legs, several salmon dishes (in aspic, beech-smoked, gravlax) and marinated or smoked fish.

The foie gras buffet brings together a duck lobe smoked on site, a truffle terrine, a half-cooked foie gras with Armagnac and a foie gras and port crème brûlée. The pâté en croûte buffet has five pieces, including the oreiller de la belle Aurore and duck à la Rouennaise.

The black truffle dishes range from egg mimosa and scrambled eggs to tournedos Rossini. Among the hot dishes, the page lists duck au sang, lobster à l'américaine presented as the chef's speciality, hare à la Royale, whole roasted wild turbot with beurre blanc, sweetbread vol-au-vent with morels, Burgundy snails, roast leg of lamb and calf's head with ravigote sauce.

The cheese board holds 111 cheeses and a Guinness World Record, covered in our article on the Les Grands Buffets cheese board. For dessert, the pastries run from Saint-Honoré to tarte Tropézienne, the flambéed desserts include crêpe Suzette, banana flambéed in rum and baked Alaska (omelette norvégienne), and the iced desserts include the Nelly Melba sundae and the Poire Belle Hélène.

Les Grands Buffets halal, vegetarian and gluten-free options

Les Grands Buffets do not serve halal dishes, according to the restaurant's FAQ on allergies and special diets. The same page says the restaurant offers gluten-free products and a large number of products suitable for vegetarians. For allergens, the restaurant asks guests to check with the buffet and kitchen staff. There is no reduced price after bariatric surgery (gastric sleeve).

Drinks and wine list at Les Grands Buffets

The Les Grands Buffets menu does not include drinks: they are charged on the day of the meal, at that day's prices. Bottles of wine and champagne on the list that are also sold to take away are served at the producer's price, and a selection is served by the glass. The bottle drunk at the table is free if you buy a case of six bottles of the same wine, also at the producer's price.

On 27 January 2020, the Tour des Cartes competition run by Terre de Vins magazine gave Les Grands Buffets the Jury's Special Prize for the finest wine-by-the-glass list, according to the restaurant's FAQ.

Les Grands Buffets buffet opening times

Les Grands Buffets seat guests from 12pm to 1.45pm at lunch and from 7.15pm to 9.15pm at dinner. The buffets close in stages: starters at 3.15pm, rotisserie and hot buffets at 3.30pm, cheese and desserts at 4.15pm at lunch; starters at 10.30pm, rotisserie and hot buffets at 11pm, cheese and desserts at 11.45pm at dinner. The restaurant allows about 3 hours for a meal.

The steps for getting a table are in our guide to Les Grands Buffets booking and prices. If your date is already full, GetTable watches for cancellations and alerts you as soon as a table frees up.