The restaurants and food shops mentioned in this guide are committed to cooking and preparing food mainly in homemade according to the criteria defined in the Consumer Law of 17 May 2014 and the decree of 11 July 2014 amended on 7 May 2015.

The title of Maître Restaurateur guarantees that the entire menu is homemade from raw products and purchased mainly fresh. The title of Maître Restaurateur is the only one issued by the State for French catering.

The Culinary College of France is a reference institution in French gastronomic culture, whose mission is to represent, promote and transmit artisanal culinary heritage through diversity, tradition and innovation. It encourages the exploration of all the culinary cultures of the world.

Created in 1900 by the brothers André and Edouard Michelin, the very influential MICHELIN guide values restaurants that are committed to cooking and preparing mostly homemade food. The Bib Gourmand rewards the best quality-price ratios, the plate quality cuisine, and the 1 to 3 stars, excellent cuisine, exceptional cuisine or unique cuisine.

Gault&Millau is a French gastronomic guide founded in 1972 by Henri Gault and Christian Millau, two French journalists and columnists who became food critics. Very influential, he evaluates restaurants, hotels, guest houses, etc., with ratings of 1 to 5 toques, and reviews.