Lokale in Paris

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

MOF chef, 1-Michelin, Parisian-apartment dining on rue Bayen.

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

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

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

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

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

Argentinian carnivore room in a former butcher shop, relaunched with Mauro Colagreco's hand on the menu.

Mazouz brothers' Marais cocktail bar, North African-Pop Art mash-up, since 2001, with a hidden courtyard.

Belle Époque salon de thé since 1903, Mont-Blanc and chocolat l'Africain under the rue de Rivoli arcades

One Michelin star inside Place des Vosges' most discreet pavilion, Marais gastronomy without the spectacle.

Tiny zinc-bar bistro near Châtelet, GaultMillau toque, charcuterie from named Auvergne producers.

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

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

The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961, still family-run, still the standard.

Haut-Marais no-menu cocktail bar, bartender asks your mood, builds the drink around French organic seasonal produce.

1864 Belle Époque brasserie under a stained-glass dome, choucroute, plateaux de fruits de mer, full theatre.

1919 Place des Ternes brasserie, Laura Gonzalez interior, three-time MOF écailler.

1895 Saint-Lazare brasserie, Niermans mosaics, listed since 1989.

Bertrand Larcher's original Paris crêperie, Bordier butter, Breton cider, Tokyo-trained discipline.

1924 corner bistro with an open kitchen, and Paris's most decorated bœuf bourguignon.

Paris's oldest artisanal coffee roaster, since 1880, still on the same Saint-Honoré sidewalk.

Jean-Marc Notelet's chalkboard bistro, spice-forward cuisine du marché near l'Étoile.

Taqueria up front, hidden cocktail bar through the back door, one of Paris's first speakeasies, still in form.

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

LVMH's Samaritaine flagship with three-Michelin Plénitude, Dior Spa Cheval Blanc and a 30-meter pool.

The cult sandwich stall inside Marché des Enfants Rouges, 30-minute queue, 13.50€, no apologies.

A Provençal bistro hiding behind Place des Vosges, and the city's largest pastis collection.

12 rooms, all looking onto Place des Vosges, Evok Collection's quietest, most contemplative Paris address.

1883 Belle Époque seafood brasserie, Rostang family, daily-port-sourced fish.

The only European palace with three Michelin-starred restaurants and Jeff Leatham's florals.

1758 stone palace on Place de la Concorde, gold-scaled pool and Karl Lagerfeld suites.

Boutique design hotel inside a former metals factory, concrete, courtyard, cocktail bar at the centre.

Laurent Taïeb's reborn 1888 central post office with rooftop ROOF and Eiffel-facing terraces.

Avenue Montaigne palace with red awnings, Dior Spa and Jean Imbert's gilded dining room.

12 rooms, exposed beams, quiet 4e side street, the Marais's small, well-priced character hotel.

Marais chocolatier with a tea room, millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels.

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

Ten-seat omakase between Louvre and Place Vendôme, chef Satoshi Kobayashi's surgical edomae.

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

The bistro mythology lives at #32 rue du Vertbois, controversial, expensive, irreplaceable.

Since 1979 on rue des Rosiers, the Pletzl falafel sandwich Lenny Kravitz and Natalie Portman keep coming back for.

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

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

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977, the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

Pierre Yves Rochon-designed townhouse-palace near the Élysée with Michelin two-star Le Gabriel.

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

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

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

Mourad Mazouz's Marais Maghreb institution since 1990, tagines and pastilla under 17th-century beams.

Le Bristol's curiosity-cabinet bar, Maxime Hoerth, first bartender awarded Meilleur Ouvrier de France (2011).

Royal Monceau's Philippe Starck-designed long bar, Forbes Travel Guide Star Bars 2025 pick on Avenue Hoche.

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

Southwest French institution since 1894, Art-Nouveau dining room beside the Halles épicerie.

Châtelet jazz club since 1984, 300+ concerts a year, free Friday-Saturday midnight jam.

Natural-wine cave-à-manger from 2008, David Lebovitz's pick, pre-trend bona fides.

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

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

The Marais corner where natural wine, oysters and serious cocktails collapse into one room.

Tuileries-facing Dorchester palace with Restaurant Le Meurice Alain Ducasse and Cédric Grolet pastry.

5-star hideaway behind ivy on Place des Vosges, 56 rooms, a courtyard, a Michelin-starred restaurant.

1898 Art Nouveau dining room, classified historic monument, Belle Époque bouillon revived.

Vegan French on rue Saint-Paul, twenty-plus years reinterpreting French classics without animal product.

Philippe Starck's contemporary palace with private cinema, Matsuhisa and the Clarins-MyBlend spa.

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

Gaston Lenôtre's flagship since 1957, the Plaine Monceau room that taught a generation of French pastry chefs

World's 50 Best Bars veteran, eleven consecutive years on the list, peak rank #6 in 2023.

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

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

Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie, kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise.

Marais épicerie-fine + restaurant, Delphine Plisson's Dean & DeLuca answer for Paris.

2-Michelin institution off Place des Ternes, 45 years of haute French classicism.

Art Deco palace on rue Saint-Honoré, 14m pool, garden courtyard, Cédric Grolet's pastry boutique

Counter-seat Korean, chef Kim Kwang-Loc's mandu and tartares, fashion-week regulars on stools.

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615, 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

France's oldest tea house since 1854, the Bourg-Tibourg flagship with the colonial-era painted casks

Ethiopian institution on rue Sauffroy, the 17e Batignolles room that has held the cuisine in Paris for decades.

Jean-Louis Deniot-designed Evok hotel facing Comédie-Française, with Brasserie Réjane and a marble pool.

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

Place Vendôme palace by Ed Tuttle with Michelin-starred Pur' and a contemporary art-hung corridor.

Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000 chocolatier, the Madeleine flagship with the life-size chocolate sculptures

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

Modern French bistronomic on a quiet Les Halles side street, chef-driven, value-strong tasting

Fewer than 20 seats, one Michelin star, one chef's vision, the Marais's most surgical tasting menu.

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

1898 Place Vendôme palace, Coco Chanel's home, Hemingway's bar, Espadon's dining room

Open-fire Marais bistro where côte de bœuf is grilled in front of you on a wood hearth.

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

Whisky-led cocktail den behind a discreet 4e façade, Vogue called it one of the world's 20 best.

Marais Korean BBQ, chef Sunghak Han's table-top grill, halal option, Michelin guide listing.

The first Italian in Paris to win a Michelin star, 600-bottle list, 40 years on.

Emmanuel Ryon, MOF glacier, Pastry World Champion, turns gelato into Marais grand cru.

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

Anatolian home cooking on rue Pasquier, the Madeleine room the Istanbul audience will actually recognise.