Venues similar to Allard

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.