Mekane in Paris

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

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

Two Michelin stars 2025 — Tomoyuki Yoshinaga's ten-seat edomae masterclass.

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.

1890 Lyon-bouchon-style bistro — under the Dumant family from 2025, after Ducasse

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

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.

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.

Alajmo brothers' Paris outpost in an 1834 letterpress — Italian fine dining behind Philippe Starck's restoration.

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

The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram — boutique and salon

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.

Tiny natural-wine bar inside the covered Passage des Panoramas — a Paris postcard.

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

Italian trattoria in a former Jean-Paul Gaultier boutique — Le Fooding 'Best Decor' 2017, still buzzing.

The Goncourt Prize restaurant since 1914 — Place Gaillon institution under chef Romain Van Thienen

The 2007 Sentier speakeasy that built modern Paris cocktail culture — still no reservations

The no-reservations rue du Nil counter from Gregory Marchand's group — natural wine and small plates

Mahogany expat bar from 1911 — birthplace of the Bloody Mary, between Opéra and the Place Vendôme

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.

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.

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

Manoj Sharma's modern Indian on rue de Choiseul — the 2e room that finally read Indian cooking as a chef's cuisine.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Contemporary Lebanese on rue de la Banque — Liza Asseily's Beirut-Paris dialogue

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

Sentier rum den behind a grilled-cheese counter — Joseph Akhavan's 100-plus-rum library, Diffords-listed.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Italian bistrattoria in the 19th-century Passage des Panoramas — Simone Tondo's Michelin-starred room

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.

David Lynch's 2011 members club six floors below rue de Montmartre — non-members welcome after midnight.

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

Paris's oldest pâtisserie since 1730 — Louis XV's pastry chef's listed shop on rue Montorgueil

Eight-seat sushi counter behind Place Louvois — surgical edomae from chef Masayoshi Hanada.

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