Holybelly

Sarah Mouchot and Nico Alary opened Holybelly on rue Lucien Sampaix in 2013 and effectively imported the Melbourne breakfast café into the 10e — espresso done properly, pancakes both savoury and sweet, eggs dressed without nonsense, daily-changing specials that read more bistro than brunch. It became a fixture: the queues are real, the no-reservation policy holds, the kitchen turns over fast. A second address (Holybelly 5) anchors the same street. It's the rare expat-driven import that the city absorbed without resentment, partly because the cooking was always going to outlast the trend.