Venues similar to Chez Alain Miam Miam

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615, 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

Since 1979 on rue des Rosiers, the Pletzl falafel sandwich Lenny Kravitz and Natalie Portman keep coming back for.

Christophe Vasseur's 1875-listed bakery on rue Yves Toudic, pain des amis, escargots, no shortcuts.

Best Baguette de Paris 2024 winner, sourdough, charcoal-black tradition, and weekend croissant programme

Emmanuel Ryon, MOF glacier, Pastry World Champion, turns gelato into Marais grand cru.

The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961, still family-run, still the standard.

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

Paris's oldest artisanal coffee roaster, since 1880, still on the same Saint-Honoré sidewalk.

The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.

Marais chocolatier with a tea room, millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels.

Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie, kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise.

France's oldest tea house since 1854, the Bourg-Tibourg flagship with the colonial-era painted casks

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

Marais épicerie-fine + restaurant, Delphine Plisson's Dean & DeLuca answer for Paris.

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

The original 1862 Ladurée tea room, the room that invented the Paris salon de thé.

Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades, tea room facing the Tuileries

The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram, boutique and salon

The bistro mythology lives at #32 rue du Vertbois, controversial, expensive, irreplaceable.

Bertrand Larcher's original Paris crêperie, Bordier butter, Breton cider, Tokyo-trained discipline.