Sormani

Pascal Fayet opened Sormani off l'Étoile in 1985 and made it the first Italian restaurant in Paris ever to win a Michelin star; he kept the star until 2006 and the institutional weight has held since. Franck Potier-Sodaro, Fayet's longtime sommelier, took over in 2019 and runs it with rigor: the wine list now reads 600+ references (prestige Italian and French in parallel), the kitchen sends out roasted-lobster rigatoni and the tiramisù that everyone copies. Le Figaro and Gilles Pudlowski continue to cover it as the dean of Paris Italian rooms. For an Istanbul visitor who wants Italian dining with French cellar discipline, Sormani is the booking.