Venues similar to Drouant

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

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

Mourad Mazouz's Marais Maghreb institution since 1990, tagines and pastilla under 17th-century beams.

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

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

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

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

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

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