Restaurant in Paris

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

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

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

Charles Compagnon's open-plan neo-bistro, Asian-inflected cooking, no reservations, all-day kitchen.

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.

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

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

Modern Vietnamese on rue Amelot, the 11e room that does the spring roll seven ways.

The 11e's reference bistro, steak-frites, soufflé, white tablecloths and zero affectation.

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

The 1896 original, Belle Époque listed dining room, twelve euros for blanquette.

The XXL bouillon that put 19th-century working-class dining back on the map.

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

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.

Brazilian asador, Lucas Baur de Campos's open-fire 11e room, Le Fooding, Infatuation cult.

Jody Williams's all-day gastrothèque, the SoPi room that never feels off.

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

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

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

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

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.

Septime's no-reservations seafood sister, daily-catch small plates on rue de Charonne.

Belle Époque tiles, marionette-sized kitchen, neo-bistro cooking, opposite the Cirque d'Hiver.

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

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

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

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

Mikaela Liaroutsos's Greek bistro on rue Eugène Carrière, Michelin Guide listing, Le Fooding regular.

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

Julio Guerrero's neo-taquería on rue Lacharrière, Mexico-City standard, natural wine, Le Fooding register.

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

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.

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

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

1889 Abbesses brasserie, shellfish counter, Cantal charcuterie, no Montmartre theatre.

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.

Pauline Séné's Top Chef-pedigreed bistronomy at the more ambitious end of rue Paul Bert.

1902 Art Nouveau brasserie on Ledru-Rollin, Mucha frescoes, listed interior, honest cooking.

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

Cyril Lignac's classified-monument bistro, fish-forward menu in an 1894 zinc-and-mosaic room.

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

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

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

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

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

Canal Saint-Martin Cambodian institution, bo bun, summer rolls, banana-tapioca dessert, packed every night.

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.

The Levha sisters' Franco-Filipino neo-bistro under a hand-painted ceiling on rue Saint-Maur.

Canal Saint-Martin's natural-wine institution, 400 references, plates from the kitchen behind the bottles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Candlelit 9e dining room, reborn under chef Lucie Boursier-Mougenot.

Big Mamma's four-floor Florentine theatre under a Pigalle glass roof.

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

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

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

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.

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.

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

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

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