Venues similar to Le Grand Véfour

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

The Ritz's wood-paneled cocktail room, bookless reservations and a serious dry martini

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

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.