Mekane in Paris

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

Alain Passard's three-Michelin temple to vegetables on rue de Varenne.

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.

Frédéric Anton's 3-Michelin pavilion in the Bois de Boulogne.

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

Two Michelin stars in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, looking at the Seine.

Whitewashed teppanyaki bolthole — chef Koji Aida's Paris-Japan grammar since 2008.

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

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.

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

Gaël Orieux's quiet Michelin star, sustainable fish only, fifteen years running.

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

1-Michelin garden-supplied dining room in a private Passy château-hotel.

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.

1906 Art Nouveau room on the Left Bank — Chartier's brother house, listed.

Philippe Starck's 1970s post-office turned Trocadéro design hotel with rooftop kitchen garden.

Alsatian choucroute, landmarked Art Nouveau, the Académiciens' lunch.

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

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

Sartre and Beauvoir's corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain since 1887.

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

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

1927 Trocadéro tea-room — marble tables, white aprons, view across to the Tower.

Saint-Germain hunting-lodge speakeasy by Thomas Codsi — Le Fooding-listed, weekend basement DJ floor.

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

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.

Forty-seat 7e bistro behind Musée d'Orsay — chef Patrick Plais's blanquette, lentil salad, chocolate mousse in a fruit-bowl.

Husband-and-wife Michelin star on avenue de Versailles — chef Noam Gedalof, sommelier Etheliya Hananova.

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

The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.

Franck Audoux's cocktail bar in a 1911 Hector Guimard Art Nouveau building.

Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800 — Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères

Mathieu Pacaud's seafood Michelin star, behind the Esplanade des Invalides.

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.

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.

Former Hugo & Victor relaunched under the chef's name — 2003 French Dessert Champion's first eponymous boutique

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.

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

Stéphane Jégo's Basque-Breton bistronomie since 2004 — riz au lait that built a pilgrimage.

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.

Hemingway's table, a piano bar, and the steak that bears his name.

1900 Bois de Boulogne pavilion — Michelin star since 1965, Empire and Belle Époque rotunda.

Basque auberge on Quai Saint-Exupéry — Pierre Oteiza Kintoa pork, pintxos, the Trinquet Village Seine-edge terrace.

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.

The tiny bistro between Saint-Sulpice and Luxembourg, Fooding-prize winner.

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

The bistronomy capital of Paris, on the Carrefour de l'Odéon.

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

Frédéric Anton's two-star kitchen 125m up the Eiffel Tower.

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

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

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

The oldest café in Paris, opened 1686 — Voltaire, Diderot, Franklin all ate here.

The soufflé restaurant of the 7e, behind Le Bon Marché.

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.

The Académie française's secret canteen, in Voltaire's own building.

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

Christian Constant's cast-iron-pot canteen on rue Saint-Dominique.

The other Saint-Germain café, with the better view of the church.

A working 'routier' off Trocadéro — checkered tablecloths, 18-euro lunch.

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

The Bernard Loiseau group's Michelin-starred Palais-Bourbon canteen.

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.

Slavic luxe in a 1910 Art Nouveau hôtel particulier — Paris Society's caviar address.

The only Palace hotel on the Left Bank, 1910 Belle Époque on Boulevard Raspail.

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

Japanese-precision French classical pâtisserie on avenue de Breteuil — Saint-Honoré as the benchmark

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

Japanese-French pâtisserie since 2001 — matcha, yuzu and black sesame on classical French structures

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.

The Picasso of pastry, in his original Saint-Germain showcase.

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

Philippe Starck's Mediterranean ground-floor in Evok's 16e flagship.

Two Michelin stars, a Green Star, and surprise tasting menus.

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

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

The only chateau-hotel in Paris — Laura Gonzalez interiors, walled garden and Bellefeuille's Michelin star.

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.

Prince Roland Bonaparte's former mansion with Eiffel-facing rooms and Shang Palace's Cantonese kitchen.

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.

Haussmannian Hôtel Majestic resurrected with rooftop L'Oiseau Blanc and a 360-degree dome view.

Tomy Gousset's Michelin-starred neo-bistro near the Esplanade.

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

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

William Ledeuil's Southeast-Asian-French cuisine, Michelin-starred since 2008.