Restaurant in Paris

Alain Passard's three-Michelin temple to vegetables on rue de Varenne.

Three-Michelin since 1996, the chef who taught Paris that haute cuisine could improvise.

Two Michelin stars in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, looking at the Seine.

Bertrand Grébaut's 11e neo-bistro that reset the gravitational centre east in 2011.

Two Michelin stars 2025, Tomoyuki Yoshinaga's ten-seat edomae masterclass.

Charles Compagnon's open-plan neo-bistro, Asian-inflected cooking, no reservations, all-day kitchen.

Anglo-French neo-bistro on Faubourg Poissonnière, a wine list with weight, an unfussy kitchen.

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

Gaël Orieux's quiet Michelin star, sustainable fish only, fifteen years running.

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

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

1906 Art Nouveau bouillon, Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table.

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

1906 Art Nouveau room on the Left Bank, Chartier's brother house, listed.

1919 Place des Ternes brasserie, Laura Gonzalez interior, three-time MOF écailler.

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.

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.

1924 corner bistro with an open kitchen, and Paris's most decorated bœuf bourguignon.

Alajmo brothers' Paris outpost in an 1834 letterpress, Italian fine dining behind Philippe Starck's restoration.

Jean-Marc Notelet's chalkboard bistro, spice-forward cuisine du marché near l'Étoile.

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

A Provençal bistro hiding behind Place des Vosges, and the city's largest pastis collection.

Forty-seat 7e bistro behind Musée d'Orsay, chef Patrick Plais's blanquette, lentil salad, chocolate mousse in a fruit-bowl.

Septime's no-reservations seafood sister, daily-catch small plates on rue de Charonne.

Belle Époque tiles, marionette-sized kitchen, neo-bistro cooking, opposite the Cirque d'Hiver.

Italian trattoria in a former Jean-Paul Gaultier boutique, Le Fooding 'Best Decor' 2017, still buzzing.

1883 Belle Époque seafood brasserie, Rostang family, daily-port-sourced fish.

Mathieu Pacaud's seafood Michelin star, behind the Esplanade des Invalides.

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

Mexican street-food institution on rue Eugène Varlin, Canal Saint-Martin's handmade-tortilla bench since 2011.

Ten-seat omakase between Louvre and Place Vendôme, chef Satoshi Kobayashi's surgical edomae.

Yasunari Okazaki's two-Michelin sushi counter inside Pavillon Ledoyen, twelve seats, ikejime fish.

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

1900 Bois de Boulogne pavilion, Michelin star since 1965, Empire and Belle Époque rotunda.

Truffle institution on the Madeleine since 1932, boutique downstairs, restaurant upstairs.

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

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

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

1902 Art Nouveau brasserie on Ledru-Rollin, Mucha frescoes, listed interior, honest cooking.

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

Cyril Lignac's classified-monument bistro, fish-forward menu in an 1894 zinc-and-mosaic room.

Southwest French institution since 1894, Art-Nouveau dining room beside the Halles épicerie.

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

Antoine Westermann's Montmartre poultry house, heritage breeds, rotisserie at the top of the hill.

Simone Zanoni's Mediterranean-Italian one-Michelin at George V, the palace alternative to a tasting menu.

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

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

Franck Baranger's bistronomy benchmark, Bib Gourmand on a Pigalle backstreet.

1898 Art Nouveau dining room, classified historic monument, Belle Époque bouillon revived.

Canal Saint-Martin Cambodian institution, bo bun, summer rolls, banana-tapioca dessert, packed every night.

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

The soufflé restaurant of the 7e, behind Le Bon Marché.

Canal Saint-Martin's natural-wine institution, 400 references, plates from the kitchen behind the bottles.

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

Christian Constant's cast-iron-pot canteen on rue Saint-Dominique.

A working 'routier' off Trocadéro, checkered tablecloths, 18-euro lunch.

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

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

Mediterranean cooking with a Tuileries terrace at the foot of the Louvre

Slavic luxe in a 1910 Art Nouveau hôtel particulier, Paris Society's caviar address.

Ethiopian institution on rue Sauffroy, the 17e Batignolles room that has held the cuisine in Paris for decades.

Mok and Omar's lunch counter and bakery, Lebanese-Japanese-American detail in a 25-seat room.

Paul Pairet's grill-and-rotisserie brasserie at the Crillon, the chic French fire-cooking room.

Alléno's one-Michelin counter format at Pavillon Ledoyen, the realistic same-week booking.

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

Big Mamma's four-floor Florentine theatre under a Pigalle glass roof.

Modern French bistronomic on a quiet Les Halles side street, chef-driven, value-strong tasting

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

Philippe Starck's Mediterranean ground-floor in Evok's 16e flagship.

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

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.

Marais Korean BBQ, chef Sunghak Han's table-top grill, halal option, Michelin guide listing.

The first Italian in Paris to win a Michelin star, 600-bottle list, 40 years on.

Eight-seat sushi counter behind Place Louvois, surgical edomae from chef Masayoshi Hanada.

Sardinian cuisine on a quiet 11e street, Francesca Feniello's traditional bistrot, Le Fooding selection.

Tomy Gousset's Michelin-starred neo-bistro near the Esplanade.

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

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.