Venues similar to La Mascotte

1919 Place des Ternes brasserie, Laura Gonzalez interior, three-time MOF écailler.

1883 Belle Époque seafood brasserie, Rostang family, daily-port-sourced fish.

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

1924 corner bistro with an open kitchen, and Paris's most decorated bœuf bourguignon.

1906 Art Nouveau room on the Left Bank, Chartier's brother house, listed.

A working 'routier' off Trocadéro, checkered tablecloths, 18-euro lunch.

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

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

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

A Provençal bistro hiding behind Place des Vosges, and the city's largest pastis collection.

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

Argentinian carnivore room in a former butcher shop, relaunched with Mauro Colagreco's hand on the menu.

The Académie française's secret canteen, in Voltaire's own building.

Christian Constant's cast-iron-pot canteen on rue Saint-Dominique.

Half-punk, half-precise, the natural-wine small-plates bistro that rewrote the 11e in 2011.

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

1902 Art Nouveau brasserie on Ledru-Rollin, Mucha frescoes, listed interior, honest cooking.

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

Charles Compagnon's open-plan neo-bistro, Asian-inflected cooking, no reservations, all-day kitchen.

Counter-seat Korean, chef Kim Kwang-Loc's mandu and tartares, fashion-week regulars on stools.