Best Burgers in Toulouse: Capitole to Carmes

The best burgers in Toulouse are found in the historic centre of the Ville Rose, named for its pink brick: around Place du Capitole, in the Carmes and Saint-Étienne quarters, near the Victor-Hugo market and across the Garonne in Saint-Cyprien. The student bars of Place Saint-Pierre, on the riverbank, add a late and casual crowd.

Toulouse cooks with the produce of the South-West, and many burger menus here borrow from it: duck breast (magret), foie gras, Toulouse sausage and Roquefort from the neighbouring Aveyron. Pink garlic from Lautrec, in the Tarn, is a protected local product with a geographical indication. The Victor-Hugo covered market has small restaurants on its upper floor that cook traders’ produce at lunchtime, a local habit worth copying. The city is also one of France’s largest university towns and the home of Airbus.

Burgers in Toulouse: key facts

• Neighbourhoods to explore: Capitole, Carmes, Saint-Étienne, Saint-Cyprien, Saint-Pierre and Compans-Caffarelli.
• Local ingredients: duck, foie gras, Toulouse sausage, Roquefort and Lautrec pink garlic.
• Market: Marché Victor-Hugo, with lunch restaurants upstairs.
• Who eats out: a large student population and the aerospace workforce.
• Getting around: metro lines A and B, trams and the VélôToulouse bike scheme.
• Prices: in euros (EUR), as in the rest of France.

Every guide we publish on Toulouse is dated and lists only venues, addresses, prices and ratings we could verify. For more destinations, browse our city burger restaurant guides.