Neuzugänge

Faubourg Saint-Honoré palace — Epicure (3 Michelin) and the audience's safest 8e booking.

Bertrand Grébaut's 11e neo-bistro that reset the gravitational centre east in 2011.

Greg Marchand's 2e bistro that rewrote the neo-bistro template in 2009.

Christian Le Squer's three-Michelin showcase inside George V — the textbook for Paris haute cuisine.

Two-Michelin glass pavilion at George V where the kitchen runs on vegetables, dairy and seafood — no meat.

Simone Zanoni's Mediterranean-Italian one-Michelin at George V — the palace alternative to a tasting menu.

Three-Michelin since 1996 — the chef who taught Paris that haute cuisine could improvise.

Yannick Alléno's three-Michelin in a pavilion at the Champs-Élysées gardens — the sauce-extraction reference.

Yasunari Okazaki's two-Michelin sushi counter inside Pavillon Ledoyen — twelve seats, ikejime fish.

Alléno's one-Michelin counter format at Pavillon Ledoyen — the realistic same-week booking.

Jérôme Banctel's three-Michelin in a Napoleon III mansion off the Champs-Élysées.

The Plaza's restored heritage-French dining room — recipes excavated from two-and-a-half centuries of menus.

Two Michelin since 1946 — the institution where Paris learned modern restaurant service.

Place de la Madeleine institution since 1839 — Hugo Bourny's contemporary take on the Art Nouveau room.

Stéphanie Le Quellec's two-Michelin counter-front room on avenue Matignon.

The Directoire mansion with the retractable roof — a multi-decade Paris institution off the Champs-Élysées.

Two-Michelin in an 1884 mansion off the Champs — the Domaine Clarence Dillon dining room.

Paul Pairet's grill-and-rotisserie brasserie at the Crillon — the chic French fire-cooking room.

Crillon palace bar with eighteenth-century frescos — Kévin Rigault's 'A Sense of Memories' menu.

Madeleine institution since 1927 — the first-floor caviar dining room above the boutique.

Truffle institution on the Madeleine since 1932 — boutique downstairs, restaurant upstairs.

The original 1862 Ladurée tea room — the room that invented the Paris salon de thé.

Three Michelin stars, Japanese precision in a Coq-Héron jewel-box dining room

Palais-Royal arcade institution since 1784 — historic monument with a kitchen in transition

Two-star Ducasse dining room overlooking the Tuileries, with Cédric Grolet desserts

Anglophone-led tasting menu in a triplex above the Palais-Royal — Paris's quiet neo-bistro standard

Adeline Grattard's bistro reincarnation — Franco-Cantonese cooking after Yam'Tcha proper closes

Mediterranean cooking with a Tuileries terrace at the foot of the Louvre

Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades — tea room facing the Tuileries

The Ritz's wood-paneled cocktail room — bookless reservations and a serious dry martini