Venues similar to Café des Musées

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.

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

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

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

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