Chez Alain Miam Miam Cafe Cafe Compare Cult Queue Sandwich Chez Alain Miam Miam Le Marais $ The cult sandwich stall inside Marché des Enfants Rouges, 30-minute queue, 13.50€, no apologies. Same category
Debauve & Gallais Cafe Cafe Compare 1800 Institution Listed Interior Historic Monument Debauve & Gallais Tour Eiffel & Invalides $$$$ Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800, Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères Same category
Marché des Enfants Rouges Cafe Cafe Compare Historic Communal Casual Marché des Enfants Rouges Le Marais $ Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615, 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block. Same category
Poilâne Cafe Cafe Compare Sourdough Historic Wood Fired Poilâne Saint-Germain & Saint-Sulpice $ The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932. Same category
Boulangerie Utopie Cafe Cafe Compare Best Baguette 2024 Sourdough Innovative Viennoiserie Boulangerie Utopie Bastille, Charonne & Oberkampf $ Best Baguette de Paris 2024 winner, sourdough, charcoal-black tradition, and weekend croissant programme Same category
Bouillon Julien Restaurant Restaurant Compare Art Nouveau Historic Monument 1906 Bouillon Julien Canal Saint-Martin $ 1906 Art Nouveau bouillon, Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table. Similar vibe
Une Glace à Paris Cafe Cafe Compare Artisan Single Cuisine Specialist Mof Craft Une Glace à Paris Le Marais $ Emmanuel Ryon, MOF glacier, Pastry World Champion, turns gelato into Marais grand cru. Same category
Berthillon Cafe Cafe Compare Institution Family Run Ile Saint Louis Berthillon Le Marais $ The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961, still family-run, still the standard. Same category
Café Verlet Cafe Cafe Compare Heritage Single Origin 1920s Salon Café Verlet Saint-Honoré & Palais-Royal $ Paris's oldest artisanal coffee roaster, since 1880, still on the same Saint-Honoré sidewalk. Same category
Coutume Café Cafe Cafe Compare Specialty Coffee Third Wave Roastery Coutume Café Tour Eiffel & Invalides $ The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011. Same category
Holybelly Cafe Cafe Compare Specialty Coffee All Day Breakfast No Reservations Holybelly Canal Saint-Martin $$ The Australian-style breakfast counter that taught Paris to queue for pancakes, and serve them well. Same category
Yann Couvreur, Parmentier Cafe Cafe Compare Chef Led Signature Millefeuille Salon De The Yann Couvreur, Parmentier Canal Saint-Martin $$ Yann Couvreur's first patisserie since May 2016, the original room with the fox-mark logo Same category
Liberté, Vinaigriers Cafe Cafe Compare Patisserie Boulangerie Hybrid 19th Century Interior Marble Counter Liberté, Vinaigriers Canal Saint-Martin $$ Mickaël Benichou's 2013 patisserie-boulangerie, painted-ceiling 19th-century shop, marble counter heaped with bread Same category
Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards Restaurant Restaurant Compare Belle Epoque Historic Monument 1896 Bouillon Chartier Grands Boulevards Pigalle & SoPi $ The 1896 original, Belle Époque listed dining room, twelve euros for blanquette. Similar vibe
Le Petit Bouillon Pharamond Restaurant Restaurant Compare Historic Monument Art Nouveau Belle Epoque Le Petit Bouillon Pharamond Saint-Honoré & Palais-Royal $ 1898 Art Nouveau dining room, classified historic monument, Belle Époque bouillon revived. Similar vibe
Ladurée Paris Royale Cafe Cafe Compare Tea Salon Institution Macaron Ladurée Paris Royale Champs-Élysées & Madeleine $$ The original 1862 Ladurée tea room, the room that invented the Paris salon de thé. Same category
Sébastien Gaudard Pâtisserie des Tuileries Cafe Cafe Compare Classical Tea Room Tuileries View Sébastien Gaudard Pâtisserie des Tuileries Saint-Honoré & Palais-Royal $$ Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades, tea room facing the Tuileries Same category
Cédric Grolet Opéra Cafe Cafe Compare Instagram Famous Trompe Loeil Tea Room Cédric Grolet Opéra Sentier & Bourse $$$ The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram, boutique and salon Same category
Jacques Genin Cafe Cafe Compare Chocolatier Millefeuille Artisan Jacques Genin Le Marais $$$ Marais chocolatier with a tea room, millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels. Same category
Maison Aleph Cafe Cafe Compare Levantine Pâtisserie Small Counter Maison Aleph Le Marais $$ Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie, kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise. Same category