Locali affini a L'Ami Jean

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

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

Tiny zinc-bar bistro near Châtelet — GaultMillau toque, charcuterie from named Auvergne producers.

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

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

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

The Levha sisters' Franco-Filipino neo-bistro under a hand-painted ceiling on rue Saint-Maur.

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

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

Mikaela Liaroutsos's Greek bistro on rue Eugène Carrière — Michelin Guide listing, Le Fooding regular.

Anatolian home cooking on rue Pasquier — the Madeleine room the Istanbul audience will actually recognise.

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

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

Brazilian asador — Lucas Baur de Campos's open-fire 11e room, Le Fooding, Infatuation cult.

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

Fewer than 20 seats, one Michelin star, one chef's vision — the Marais's most surgical tasting menu.

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

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

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

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