Locali affini a Frenchie

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

Pauline Séné's Top Chef-pedigreed bistronomy at the more ambitious end of rue Paul Bert.

The no-reservations rue du Nil counter from Gregory Marchand's group, natural wine and small plates

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

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

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

Maxime Bouttier's first solo table, raw-and-living tasting menu on rue de la Folie Méricourt.

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

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

Manoj Sharma's modern Indian on rue de Choiseul, the 2e room that finally read Indian cooking as a chef's cuisine.

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

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

Anglophone-led tasting menu in a triplex above the Palais-Royal, Paris's quiet neo-bistro standard

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

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

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

Open-fire Marais bistro where côte de bœuf is grilled in front of you on a wood hearth.

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

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