Lunch · 12:00
Palais du Pharo
Marseille
MON 16 NOV 2026. €50
LE SANS FOURCHETTE® reinvents the meal for everyone
Giving everyone back the pleasure of eating at the table, without cutlery, independently.
- Pleasure
- Gastronomy
- Inclusion
- Prevention
- Solidarity
Our upcoming events
Lunch · 12:00
Lycée hôtelier Brise-lames
Martigues
FRI 02 APR 2027. Bookings closed
What if everyone could enjoy
being at the table again?
LE SANS FOURCHETTE® means restaurant meals to share… with your fingers!
This simple, intuitive gesture gives back independence to people weakened by age, neurocognitive disorders, disability or illness (such as Alzheimer's disease), while rebuilding what makes a meal special: the pleasure of being together. The inclusive LE SANS FOURCHETTE® concept was born in Marseille in 2011, created by the Mémoire & Santé association. It has since spread all over France.
Our values
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Inclusion
Everyone is on an equal footing.
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Independence
Everyone eats freely, at their own pace and as they need.
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Pleasure and conviviality
Guests rediscover appetite and the joy of food around the table, which brings people together.
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Passing it on
The next generation of chefs and restaurateurs learns inclusive gastronomy.
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Together
The adventure is shared at the table, in the kitchen and through inspiring partnerships.
In figures
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100 meals held all over France -
+6500 guests brought together at our events -
+25 000 bites of gastronomy created -
27 cities visited across France -
+65 partners chefs and hospitality schools -
+1800 students made aware of invisible disabilities
All over France
92 meals in 26 towns and cities, from Dinard to Toulon.
Each dot is a place where a LE SANS FOURCHETTE® meal took place; the bigger the dot, the more meals. Provence, where the project began, is enlarged.
Towns and cities:
- Marseille · 36 repas
- Paris · 12 repas
- La Ciotat · 8 repas
- Dinard · 4 repas
- Carnoules · 3 repas
- Sisteron · 3 repas
- Toulon · 3 repas
- Gémenos · 2 repas
- La Seyne-sur-Mer · 2 repas
- Saint-Chély-d'Apcher · 2 repas
- Saint-Gratien · 2 repas
- Antony
- Beaurecueil
- Capbreton
- Cassis
- Cavaillon
- Clichy
- Dax
- Hyères
- Manosque
- Méounes-lès-Montrieux
- Montpellier
- Périgueux
- Saint-Martin-de-Crau
- Saint-Nazaire
- Toulouse
An award-winning project
- 2025 Project selected by the Accelerator for the Fight against Undernutrition (Make.org)
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2023 Institut Nutrition Award -
2022 First regional prize for the social and solidarity economy, Fondation Crédit Coopératif -
2019 Marseille Provence Gastronomie -
2018 “Building intergenerational ties: meeting, sharing, doing things together” award, Fondation des Petits Frères des Pauvres - 2017 Nominated for the Silver Economy Awards, intergenerational category
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2014 “Disability support” award, Klesia -
2013 “Living your choices, taking risks” award, Fondation de France -
2012 1st prize “Local initiatives by donors”, Fondation Médéric Alzheimer
Beyond Alzheimer's
Beyond Alzheimer's: an answer to disability, loss of independence and undernutrition, so everyone can eat well at any age.
Beyond Alzheimer's disease, LE SANS FOURCHETTE® works for better health through food: balanced, well-portioned meals that support independent eating, help prevent and manage obesity and fight undernutrition, while keeping the pleasure and the conviviality.
THE ASSOCIATION
LE SANS FOURCHETTE® is run by Mémoire & Santé, a non-profit association recognised as being of public interest. Since 2011 we have worked to keep the table a place of pleasure, connection and dignity, whatever a person's age, disability or illness.
More about the association
