Selling to restaurants across France? This guide shows how to build a complete national list straight from Google Maps — every business name, phone number, website and, where it is published, an email address. France concentrates its restaurants in cities like Paris, Lyon and Marseille, so a nationwide list is built city by city rather than from one broad query. The lever that matters most is breadth: sweep the major cities one at a time rather than firing a single national query. Kavex runs the cities in a single job, deduplicates them on place ID and returns one clean CSV — then enriches each row with a website-extracted email and deliverability scoring.
What you'll find scraping restaurants across France
France is strongly centred on Paris, which holds a large share of the national business base, but Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux are substantial markets too. A nationwide list means searching Paris in depth and then sweeping the major regional cities. Profiles are written in French.
For restaurants specifically, the size of the national list depends on how many cities and sub-categories you search: a single query returns a slice, while a city-by-city sweep can surface thousands of businesses across France. Expect a little over half to list a website — the rest you can still reach by phone. The major markets to search are:
- Paris
- Lyon
- Marseille
- Toulouse
- Bordeaux
The best way to scrape France nationwide
Open the Google Maps scraper and set the country to France. The setting that matters most is breadth: add several major cities as separate regions in one job rather than running a single national query. Google caps each query at roughly 120 results, so France is best covered by running its major cities as separate regions in one job — Kavex deduplicates on place ID across them, so no business is ever returned twice.
- Search in French — the local term returns far more complete coverage than the English word.
- Search Paris in depth first, then add Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux.
- Kavex deduplicates on place ID across regions, so overlapping searches never double-count.
- Add Nice, Nantes and Lille to reach the mid-size regional markets.
Who buys France restaurant lists
A nationwide restaurant list for France is valuable to a specific set of vendors. Typical buyers: POS systems, food-delivery platforms, reservation software, payment processors, food distributors, marketing agencies.
What the nationwide restaurant export looks like
Every job downloads as one CSV with a single restaurant per row, no matter how many cities it spans. Each row carries the business name, full address, phone number, website, primary category, star rating and review count, with a website-extracted email added wherever one is published. A national export looks like this:
- One deduplicated row per business across every city searched.
- A Paris restaurant: phone, website and a website-extracted email.
- A Lyon listing: phone and website present, no public email — still reachable by phone.
- A smaller-city restaurant: phone only, ready for a Phone Validator pass before any call.
Enrich and personalise before you reach out
Toggle "Include emails" so the scraper visits each restaurant website and extracts a contact address, then run those through the Email Verifier to drop anything undeliverable. The Phone Validator sorts the remaining numbers into mobile and landline, and the AI Personalizer turns each row into a short cold email referencing the business and its city — far stronger than a single national mail-merge blast.
Every number on this page comes from that run, not from a price list.
Questions people ask
How do I get full national coverage of France?
Sweep the major cities one at a time — Paris, Lyon, Marseille and the rest — rather than running a single national query. Kavex deduplicates on place ID across regions, so overlapping searches never double-count.
Will one job cover the whole of France?
Yes. Add the major cities as separate regions in a single job and Kavex runs them together, returning one CSV. Results are deduplicated on place ID, so a business near a regional boundary is never counted twice.
How long does a nationwide scrape of France take?
Most queries return within 60 to 90 seconds and the cities run together, so even a broad national sweep of restaurants completes in minutes rather than the weeks a manual city-by-city effort would take.
What contact details come with each restaurant?
Every row includes phone and website wherever the business publishes them, plus a website-extracted email wherever one is found — typically for a little over half of restaurants. The rest you can still reach by phone.