Places in Paris

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.

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

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

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.

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.