Places in Paris

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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