Venues similar to Café de Flore

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

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

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

The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram — boutique and salon

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615 — 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

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

A turn-of-the-century café preserved without irony — zinc bar, red banquettes, all-day terrace.

Former Hugo & Victor relaunched under the chef's name — 2003 French Dessert Champion's first eponymous boutique

Marais épicerie-fine + restaurant — Delphine Plisson's Dean & DeLuca answer for Paris.

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

The Ritz's wood-paneled cocktail room — bookless reservations and a serious dry martini

Marais chocolatier with a tea room — millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels.

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

Gaston Lenôtre's flagship since 1957 — the Plaine Monceau room that taught a generation of French pastry chefs

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

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977 — the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000 chocolatier — the Madeleine flagship with the life-size chocolate sculptures

Alain Ducasse's bean-to-bar manufacture in the 11e — Nicolas Berger's atelier behind a cobbled courtyard