Beste restaurants in Paris

Greg Marchand's 2e bistro that rewrote the neo-bistro template in 2009.

Simone Zanoni's Mediterranean-Italian one-Michelin at George V — the palace alternative to a tasting menu.

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

Place de la Madeleine institution since 1839 — Hugo Bourny's contemporary take on the Art Nouveau room.

Palais-Royal arcade institution since 1784 — historic monument with a kitchen in transition

Anglophone-led tasting menu in a triplex above the Palais-Royal — Paris's quiet neo-bistro standard

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

Italian bistrattoria in the 19th-century Passage des Panoramas — Simone Tondo's Michelin-starred room

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

One Michelin star inside Place des Vosges' most discreet pavilion — Marais gastronomy without the spectacle.

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

Frédéric Anton's two-star kitchen 125m up the Eiffel Tower.

Mathieu Pacaud's seafood Michelin star, behind the Esplanade des Invalides.

Tomy Gousset's Michelin-starred neo-bistro near the Esplanade.

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

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

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

Ten-seat omakase between Louvre and Place Vendôme — chef Satoshi Kobayashi's surgical edomae.

Whitewashed teppanyaki bolthole — chef Koji Aida's Paris-Japan grammar since 2008.

Franck Baranger's bistronomy benchmark — Bib Gourmand on a Pigalle backstreet.

1900 Bois de Boulogne pavilion — Michelin star since 1965, Empire and Belle Époque rotunda.

1-Michelin garden-supplied dining room in a private Passy château-hotel.

Husband-and-wife Michelin star on avenue de Versailles — chef Noam Gedalof, sommelier Etheliya Hananova.

MOF chef, 1-Michelin, Parisian-apartment dining on rue Bayen.

1890 Lyon-bouchon-style bistro — under the Dumant family from 2025, after Ducasse

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

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

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

Septime's no-reservations seafood sister — daily-catch small plates on rue de Charonne.

Cyril Lignac's classified-monument bistro — fish-forward menu in an 1894 zinc-and-mosaic room.

The 11e's reference bistro — steak-frites, soufflé, white tablecloths and zero affectation.

Pauline Séné's Top Chef-pedigreed bistronomy at the more ambitious end of rue Paul Bert.

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

Vegetable-driven neo-bistro with a 400-bottle wine list and savoury-leaning desserts.

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

Stéphane Jégo's Basque-Breton bistronomie since 2004 — riz au lait that built a pilgrimage.

Jean-Marc Notelet's chalkboard bistro — spice-forward cuisine du marché near l'Étoile.

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

Bertrand Grébaut's 11e neo-bistro that reset the gravitational centre east in 2011.

Christian Le Squer's three-Michelin showcase inside George V — the textbook for Paris haute cuisine.

Two-Michelin glass pavilion at George V where the kitchen runs on vegetables, dairy and seafood — no meat.

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

Yannick Alléno's three-Michelin in a pavilion at the Champs-Élysées gardens — the sauce-extraction reference.

Yasunari Okazaki's two-Michelin sushi counter inside Pavillon Ledoyen — twelve seats, ikejime fish.

Jérôme Banctel's three-Michelin in a Napoleon III mansion off the Champs-Élysées.

The Plaza's restored heritage-French dining room — recipes excavated from two-and-a-half centuries of menus.

Two Michelin since 1946 — the institution where Paris learned modern restaurant service.

Stéphanie Le Quellec's two-Michelin counter-front room on avenue Matignon.

The Directoire mansion with the retractable roof — a multi-decade Paris institution off the Champs-Élysées.

Two-Michelin in an 1884 mansion off the Champs — the Domaine Clarence Dillon dining room.

Three Michelin stars, Japanese precision in a Coq-Héron jewel-box dining room

Two-star Ducasse dining room overlooking the Tuileries, with Cédric Grolet desserts

Two Michelin stars in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, looking at the Seine.

Alain Passard's three-Michelin temple to vegetables on rue de Varenne.

Two Michelin stars, a Green Star, and surprise tasting menus.

Belle Époque tiles, marionette-sized kitchen, neo-bistro cooking — opposite the Cirque d'Hiver.

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

Eight-seat sushi counter behind Place Louvois — surgical edomae from chef Masayoshi Hanada.

Frédéric Anton's 3-Michelin pavilion in the Bois de Boulogne.

2-Michelin institution off Place des Ternes — 45 years of haute French classicism.

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

Madeleine institution since 1927 — the first-floor caviar dining room above the boutique.

Truffle institution on the Madeleine since 1932 — boutique downstairs, restaurant upstairs.

Mediterranean cooking with a Tuileries terrace at the foot of the Louvre

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

The Goncourt Prize restaurant since 1914 — Place Gaillon institution under chef Romain Van Thienen

Contemporary Lebanese on rue de la Banque — Liza Asseily's Beirut-Paris dialogue

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

Open-fire Marais bistro where côte de bœuf is grilled in front of you on a wood hearth.

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.

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.

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

Alsatian choucroute, landmarked Art Nouveau, the Académiciens' lunch.

Hemingway's table, a piano bar, and the steak that bears his name.

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

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

William Ledeuil's Southeast-Asian-French cuisine, Michelin-starred since 2008.

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.

The Bernard Loiseau group's Michelin-starred Palais-Bourbon canteen.

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

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

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

Anglo-French neo-bistro on Faubourg Poissonnière — a wine list with weight, an unfussy kitchen.

Two Michelin stars 2025 — Tomoyuki Yoshinaga's ten-seat edomae masterclass.

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

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.

Alajmo brothers' Paris outpost in an 1834 letterpress — Italian fine dining behind Philippe Starck's restoration.

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

Southwest French institution since 1894 — Art-Nouveau dining room beside the Halles épicerie.

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

Canal Saint-Martin Cambodian institution — bo bun, summer rolls, banana-tapioca dessert, packed every night.

Mokonuts duo's chef-residency room — Le Fooding 2025 Honorary, rotating Palestinian / Korean / Filipino kitchens.

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

Jody Williams's all-day gastrothèque — the SoPi room that never feels off.

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

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

Candlelit 9e dining room, reborn under chef Lucie Boursier-Mougenot.

The 1896 original — Belle Époque listed dining room, twelve euros for blanquette.

1906 Art Nouveau bouillon — Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table.

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

The oldest café in Paris, opened 1686 — Voltaire, Diderot, Franklin all ate here.

1895 Saint-Lazare brasserie — Niermans mosaics, listed since 1989.

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

Philippe Starck's Mediterranean ground-floor in Evok's 16e flagship.

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

The first Italian in Paris to win a Michelin star — 600-bottle list, 40 years on.

Antoine Westermann's Montmartre poultry house — heritage breeds, rotisserie at the top of the hill.

1889 Abbesses brasserie — shellfish counter, Cantal charcuterie, no Montmartre theatre.

1898 Art Nouveau dining room, classified historic monument — Belle Époque bouillon revived.

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

Sardinian cuisine on a quiet 11e street — Francesca Feniello's traditional bistrot, Le Fooding selection.

Slavic luxe in a 1910 Art Nouveau hôtel particulier — Paris Society's caviar address.

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

Modern Vietnamese on rue Amelot — the 11e room that does the spring roll seven ways.

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.

Basque auberge on Quai Saint-Exupéry — Pierre Oteiza Kintoa pork, pintxos, the Trinquet Village Seine-edge terrace.

Julio Guerrero's neo-taquería on rue Lacharrière — Mexico-City standard, natural wine, Le Fooding register.

Ethiopian institution on rue Sauffroy — the 17e Batignolles room that has held the cuisine in Paris for decades.

Vegan French on rue Saint-Paul — twenty-plus years reinterpreting French classics without animal product.

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