Lugares 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.

The 1896 original, Belle Époque listed dining room, twelve euros for blanquette.

The XXL bouillon that put 19th-century working-class dining back on the map.

Philippe Starck's 1970s post-office turned Trocadéro design hotel with rooftop kitchen garden.

Alsatian choucroute, landmarked Art Nouveau, the Académiciens' lunch.

Brazilian asador, Lucas Baur de Campos's open-fire 11e room, Le Fooding, Infatuation cult.

Jody Williams's all-day gastrothèque, the SoPi room that never feels off.

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

LVMH's Samaritaine flagship with three-Michelin Plénitude, Dior Spa Cheval Blanc and a 30-meter pool.

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

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.

Laurent Taïeb's reborn 1888 central post office with rooftop ROOF and Eiffel-facing terraces.

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.

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

1889 Abbesses brasserie, shellfish counter, Cantal charcuterie, no Montmartre theatre.

Pierre Yves Rochon-designed townhouse-palace near the Élysée with Michelin two-star Le Gabriel.

The Directoire mansion with the retractable roof, a multi-decade Paris institution off the Champs-Élysées.

The tiny bistro between Saint-Sulpice and Luxembourg, Fooding-prize winner.

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

Châtelet jazz club since 1984, 300+ concerts a year, free Friday-Saturday midnight jam.

Frédéric Anton's two-star kitchen 125m up the Eiffel Tower.

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.

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.

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.

The only Palace hotel on the Left Bank, 1910 Belle Époque on Boulevard Raspail.

Art Deco palace on rue Saint-Honoré, 14m pool, garden courtyard, Cédric Grolet's pastry boutique

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.

Candlelit 9e dining room, reborn under chef Lucie Boursier-Mougenot.

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.

1898 Place Vendôme palace, Coco Chanel's home, Hemingway's bar, Espadon's dining room

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.

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

William Ledeuil's Southeast-Asian-French cuisine, Michelin-starred since 2008.