5 Best Restaurants in Corsica, France

Located on the Place St-Nicolas in the heart of Bastia, opposite the port, this restaurant has a shady terrace and impressive wood frontage. It's the perfect place to people-watch while enjoying an eclectic menu that ranges from pizza and burgers to poke bowls and Japanese and Thai standards.

Inside the Sofitel Golfe d'Ajaccio, La Carte Postale presents a sedate ambience with floor-to-ceiling pillars, candlelit tables, and a pianist tickling the ivories. The kitchen incorporates Corsican flavors into contemporary cuisine. An assortment of sheep and goat cheeses are from local producers.

Fresh produce is a hallmark of this restaurant’s daily-changing Mediterranean-style menu, achieved with the help of its own prolific garden. Set within the Grand Hôtel de Cala Rossa, you’ll find dishes featuring aromatic herbs, raspberries, wild strawberries, and much more.

Formerly an 18th-century manor house and grounds, this award-winning stylish restaurant in a beautiful conservatory at La Signoria Hotel is cheese heaven, stocking 40 different Corsican varieties. Dinner highlights include a starter of pressed duck foie gras with local figs and sautéed veal with wild mushrooms. The restaurant has an Art Nouveau style in a spectrum of colors ranging from terracotta to olive green to sky blue.

Within the five-star Hôtel La Villa perched high amid rambling hills overlooking the ocher-color Old Citadel, La Table by La Villa offers such memorable dining highlights as varied as oeuf mollet frit (poached eggs with celery, mushrooms, and black truffles); carpaccio of John Dory and spider crab with fennel, fresh coriander, and shiso leaves; and braised pigeon breast with confit of pigeon leg, porcini mushrooms, and dried fruits.