Famous All You Can Eat Beef Restaurants in Paris

Helen Rosner

The 38 Essential Restaurants in Paris

From a cozy '80s-era bistro with Korean twists, to the Hotel Plaza Athénée where an upstart just replaced gastro wizard Alain Ducasse, here's where to eat in the French capital

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Paris has reclaimed its status as one of the world's favorite cities to eat. . The French capital is bustling with a brilliant constellation of restaurants these days, including a bevy of openings that show off how deliciously cosmopolitan it's become: Menkicchi is maybe the best ramen shop in town, young Franco-Malian chef Mory Sacko cooks stunningly original Franco-African-Japanese dishes at MoSuke, and Korean-born chef Sukwon Yong shows off the growing influence of Asia on contemporary French cooking at the reboot of Le Bistrot Flaubert. Plus there's an inventive and diverse array of casual dining options, like the affordable Café du Coin, excellent Montmartre bistro Le Maquis, and Parcelles, an outstanding bistrot a vins in the Marais. There's also been a renaissance of Paris's long-established gastronomic landscape, with traditional bistros, brasseries, and stylish restaurants serving classic French cooking made famous by chef Auguste Escoffier.

Updated, May 2022:

With tourism picking up and mask- and proof-of-vaccination mandates lapsing , Paris restaurants are thriving again. The cooking of young chefs like Tom Meyer at Granite —which replaces Maison on this list — showcases the Parisian gastronomic grail of the last few years: using only seasonal produce that's as local and organic as possible. The restaurant also plays to the new interest in the regional kitchens of France; Meyer references his native Jura by using vin jaune, Morteau sausage, and other products from eastern France. The seemingly immutable landscape of French haute cuisine has also gotten a jolt from the arrival of chef Jean Imbert, who takes over the kitchens of the palmy Hotel Plaza Athénée formerly run by Gallic gastro wizard Alain Ducasse. Jean Imbert au Plaza Athénée not only offers much more reasonable prices than the table it replaced (be forewarned, it's still a wallet-bruiser), but a grand slam of impeccably mad dishes from the grand canon of traditional French gastronomy like lobster Bellevue and chicken in a sauce of morels and vin jaune.

Prices per person, excluding alcohol:

$ = Less than 10 euros (less than $10 USD)
$$ = 10 - 35 euros ($10 - $36 USD)
$$$ = 35 - 75 euros ($36 - $78 USD)
$$$$ = More than 75 euros ($78 USD and up)

Looking for a more comprehensive take on Paris, from the hottest new restaurants to a ranking of the best macarons? Consult the Eater Guide to Paris .

Alexander Lobrano is a Paris restaurant expert and author of Hungry for Paris, Hungry for France , and his gastronomic coming-of-age story My Place at the Table . He blogs about restaurants and writes often for the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , Saveur , and other publications.

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Note: Restaurants on this map are listed geographically.

31 Avenue de Versailles
75016 Paris, France

The bulk of Paris's famed haute cuisine is fiscally out of reach for many. However Michelin-starred Comice, headed by Canadian chef Noam Gedalof and sommelier Etheliya Hananova (the two are married), is an indulgence that won't completely melt your credit card. The look strikes a similar balance: elegant but relaxed, with striking arrangements from a renowned local florist. Hananova's wine list — which features lesser-known wines from around the world — is terrific, as is Gedalof's light, inventive contemporary French cooking. Try the duck foie gras with hazelnuts, strawberries, balsamic, and black pepper, or the roast chicken with polenta, wild mushrooms, and a salad of wild herbs. [$$$$]

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10 Rue Gustave Flaubert
75017 Paris, France

Originally founded in the 1980s by chef Michel Rostang, this cozy bistro with flea market decor has been taken over by chef Nicolas Baumann and one of the most innovative restaurateurs in Paris right now, financier Stéphane Manigold. Korean-born chef Sukwon Yong, who used to work with Rostang, leads the kitchen, and his Asian spin on French bistro cooking has made this one of the most interesting and satisfying restaurants in western Paris. Expect dishes like Korean beef tartare with avocado mousse and puffed rice, and lumache (snail-shaped pasta) with rabbit confit, red curry, and kimchi. The prix fixe lunch is a real bargain in an expensive part of Paris.

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A casually luxurious menu
Le Bistrot Flaubert
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46 Avenue de la Bourdonnais
75007 Paris, France

With excellent handmade pates, sausages, and terrines, award-winning charcutier and chef Arnaud Nicolas has revived an ancient branch of French gastronomy. The space, on a leafy avenue in the silk-stocking Seventh Arrondissement, is decorated with exposed stone walls, a beamed ceiling, and battleship-gray moldings. Roasts and meat pies, Gallic pleasures that date back at least to the Middle Ages, figure as first courses, before an evolving menu filled with seasonal produce. Nicolas shows off his style with turbot cooked with cep mushrooms, salmon koulibiak for two, beef cheek braised with carrots in red wine, veal sweetbreads with girolles mushrooms, and a luscious chocolate souffle. [$$$$]

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25 Av. Montaigne
75008 Paris, France

After the bombshell news in June 2021 that chef Jean Imbert would replace chef Alain Ducasse in the kitchens of the Hotel Plaza Athénée, the upstart cook made skeptical Parisians swoon when he unveiled his menu of classic French dishes at his new eponymous restaurant last September. "I believe in the great traditions of French gastronomy," says Imbert, who eschews the headstrong creativity of some of his young peers. Imbert subtly tweaks and revises classic dishes to make them elegantly modern, as seen in a signature dish like a deconstructed vol au vent (usually a pastry case filled with crayfish, veal sweetbreads, and mushrooms in cream sauce), which comes to the table with the plated ingredients hidden under a round golden pane of fragile puff pastry. Don't miss the whole poached turbot stuffed with asparagus or the spectacular multi-course dessert. This restaurant is by no means cheap, but it offers better value for the money than most other tables at this gastronomic altitude. [$$$$]

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Vol au vent
Boby Allin
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27 Rue Malar
75007 Paris, France

Chef Stéphane Jego's heaving Left Bank bistro is perpetually packed. Like so few other Parisian chefs, Jego knows how to deliver beautiful, traditional French bistro food, modernized with tweaks so subtle most people won't even notice. He's barely touched the 1930s space since taking it over nearly two decades ago from a Basque rugby pub. The earthy dishes, often inspired by southwestern French farmhouse food, are so deeply satisfying you won't mind the occasionally slow service or boisterous regulars. The menu includes Parmesan soup with cabbage and bonito flakes, roasted pigeon with thyme and garlic, roast lamb with smoked oregano, and light and fluffy rice pudding. [$$$]

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29 rue Surcouf
Paris, Île-de-France

After working with Alain Passard and Marc Veyrat, David Toutain first wowed Paris at Agapé Substance in Saint-Germain. Now he has his own place, and his constantly changing tasting menus (which range from 70 to 250 euros) deliver some of the boldest and most interesting food in Paris. Think dishes like seared foie gras in baked potato bouillon with black truffles; a monochromatic white composition of cuttlefish with yuba; and nearly translucent Parmesan gnocchi, seasoned with the juice extracted from cooking the cheese at very low temperatures for hours. [$$$$]

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32 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris, France

Chef Stéphanie Le Quellec's glamorous subterranean dining room feels like a luxury railroad car, with the chef working in a theater-like open kitchen at the head of the room. It's fun and amusing, which is the point. Le Quellec has reinvented French haute cuisine for the 21st century, offering diners a good time instead of another long stuffy experience. Her cooking is light, lucid, and precise, with touches of gastronomic wit. Poached langoustines come with buckwheat and a quenelle of blanc-manger and claw meat. Scottish grouse with morels is cooked with smoked tea. Veal sweetbreads arrive with roasted cauliflower and harissa. And a ganache, featuring Criollo chocolate from Venezuela, is made with olive oil. La Scene is one of the rare Paris restaurants that works as well for a romantic tete a tete as it does for a business meal. [$$$$]

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84 rue de Varenne
Paris, Île-de-France

Okay, it costs a freaking fortune, but the vegetarian dishes cooked by three-Michelin-starred chef Alain Passard often come as close to nirvana as Paris can deliver for vegetarians. They're so good that accompanying non-vegetarians will be tempted, although fish and meat are also on the menu. Passard's vegetables come from his own organic farm, and what you'll get depends on what's available at the time. A sample of Passard's talent with the bounty of the garden includes dishes like ratatouille-stuffed ravioli with an infusion of purple basil and a vol au vent (puff pastry) filled with baby peas, turnips, and snow peas in a sauce spiked with Cote du Jura wine. It's worth pointing out that people have strong feelings about L'Arpège — the restaurant has its share of critics, including Eater's own Ryan Sutton. [$$$$]

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7 rue d'Aguesseau
Paris, Île-de-France

The French have a genius for offal cooking, especially veal sweetbreads. Maybe you love them already, but if not, there's no better souvenir to take home from Paris than a newly discovered favorite dish. The place to make this happen is Jean-François Piège's Le Grand Restaurant. He cooks the sweetbreads on walnut shells in a hot box and serves them with walnut mousseline and morels. [$$$$]

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The dining room at Le Grand Restaurant
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117 rue du Cherche-Midi
Paris, Île-de-France

With its lace curtains, cut-glass room dividers, and bentwood chairs, this century-old bistro is why you put up with all those terrible hours in economy class to get to Paris. The boeuf bourguignon is the best in the city. The dish is a testament to Gallic genius, calling for slowly simmering meat to create a flavor-rich sauce from the juices. You must book in advance, and don't miss the Grand Marnier souffle for dessert either. [$$$]

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Chef Marc Amory prepares a Tournedos Rossini during lunch service at Joséphine Chez Dumonet
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11 Rue Raymond Losserand
75014 Paris, France

In a year of lockdowns, young chef Mory Sacko was one of the stars of 2020 for the originality of his intriguing Afro-Franco-Japanese cooking in Montparnasse. The son of Malian immigrants to France, he grew up in the suburbs eating African dishes made by his mother and American fast food for an occasional treat. At a job at a big Paris luxury hotel, he discovered his fascination with cooking, and went on to work with two-Michelin-star chef Thierry Marx, a Japanophile who taught Sacko to love Japanese ingredients and techniques. Expect dishes like lobster in miso sauce with smoked pepper and lacto-fermented tomato, sole seasoned with togarashi shichimi, and lovage cooked inside of a banana leaf and served with a side of attieke, a couscous-like preparation of dried fermented cassava pulp. The name of the restaurant derives from the names of the chef and one of his heroes, Yasuke, the first and only African samurai, an emancipated Mozambican slave who lived in 16th-century Kyoto.  [$$$]

Roasted fish wrapped in a cylinder of banana leaf, resting to one side of a couscous salad dotted with herbs and flowers
Sole cooked in a banana leaf
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181 Rue du Château
75014 Paris, France

It is quiet, hard-working, limelight-shunning chefs like David Rathgeber who make Paris such an enduringly terrific food city. He took over this locally famous restaurant — previously helmed by a flamboyant chef named Lulu who charmed the likes of late President François Mitterrand and other celebrities — and has made it one of the city's best bistros. It's well worth the trek to the quiet 14th Arrondissement for his deft take on traditional dishes like pork-knuckle rillettes with foie gras and a superb cassoulet. The menu also offers lighter fare, including sea bream tartare with green tomato and coriander jus, and cuttlefish carbonara. The creme caramel is nothing short of epic. [$$$]

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41 Rue Sainte-Anne
75001 Paris, France

Right in the heart of the city, midway between the Opera Garnier and the Musee du Louvre, you'll find a cluster of Japanese and other Asian restaurants along the Rue Sainte-Anne and adjoining streets. Stop by the very popular Menkicchi for some gyoza and a bowl of some of the city's best ramen. The regulars love the Le Speciale ramen, which comes with handmade noodles in rich pork bouillon, a marinated egg, a slice of pork breast, and seaweed. [$-$$]

A bowl of ramen topped with slices of pork, egg, and scallion, beside a plate of gyoza with dipping sauce
Ramen and gyoza
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3 rue de Montfaucon
Paris, Île-de-France

This minuscule, white-painted, no-reservations raw bar in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a pearl, and it serves the best bivalves in Paris. The owners get them shipped daily from pedigreed producers in the Marennes d'Oléron, Normandy, and Brittany on France's Atlantic coast. Start with some smoked scallops, tuck into a dozen oysters, and finish up with the runny chocolate tart. [$$-$$$]

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47 Rue de Richelieu
75001 Paris, France

This friendly wine bar and bistro is the perfect place to find really good French comfort food and a great bottle of wine without the hassle of booking three months in advance. Scottish wine merchant and longtime Paris expat Tim Johnston founded the restaurant, which is now run by his daughter Margaux and her French boyfriend, Romain Roudeau. With Roudeau in the kitchen and the younger Johnston running the dining room, the pair orchestrate a Gallic gastronomic experience that lives up to their motto: "We always deliver the goods." The menu follows the seasons, but the kitchen displays its style with dishes like celery soup with cockles, chives with whipped cream, sauteed wild mushroom with egg yolk and prosciutto cream, duckling filet with Swiss chard and chestnuts, and scallops with leek, baby potatoes, and parsley cream. [$$-$$$]

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53 Rue des Cloys
75018 Paris, France

Located in the tranquil 18th Arrondissement far from the crowds of tourists around Sacre Coeur and the Place du Tertre, this laidback neighborhood bistro pulls a discerning crowd of locals and word-of-mouth customers from other parts of Paris for the excellent bistro cooking of Paul Boudier and Albert Touton. Many of their dishes have a Southern French or Italian accent, including superb homemade pastas, ceviche with shavings of poutargue (bottarga), and pork belly cooked in cider with roasted fennel. [$$-$$$]

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12 rue Vivienne
Paris, Île-de-France

Chef Daniel Rose's second Paris restaurant has become one of the city's best bistros. He delivers superb versions of the rock-of-ages French dishes that people yearn to eat. His superb foie gras de canard comes to the table perched on a fresh artichoke heart with a dribble of aspic-like shallot vinaigrette on the side, a brilliant detail. Don't miss the collier d'agneau provencal (braised lamb neck Provençal style) either. [$$-$$$]

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25 Rue des Grands Augustins
75006 Paris, France

At this sister table to chef William Ledeuil's Michelin-starred Ze Kitchen Galerie, young chef Martin Maumet has created one of the best restaurants on the Left Bank with his nervy, vivid, and inventive French cooking. A meal in the minimalist, gallery-like space begins with an assortment of hors d'oeuvres and then segues into a suite of Asian-accented contemporary French dishes that showcase vegetables and seafood. The menu evolves constantly, but options might include Sardinian gnocchi with mussels in herb-garnished shellfish bouillon, free-range heirloom chicken with carrots, and Iberian pork with roasted root vegetables and chimichurri sauce. Desserts are often made with vegetables, as in the butternut squash ice cream with chestnuts, pistachios, and yuzu. [$$-$$$]

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6 Rue Bailleul
75001 Paris, France

Hidden on a small side street on the edge of Les Halles in the heart of Paris, this intimate restaurant sports contemporary decor of cutout wooden paneling and an open kitchen. It's become one of the most sought-after reservations in the city for the superb contemporary French cooking of young chef Thomas Meyer, the former sous chef to Anne-Sophie Pic at her three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Valence. Meyer presents his cooking in a tasting-menu format that showcases his perfectly tuned creativity, love of fresh seasonal produce, and culinary loyalty to his native Jura in the east of France. The menus evolve regularly, but standouts of a recent meal included a grilled cepe mushroom with meadowsweet-flavored sabayon and a sauce of deeply reduced mushroom jus and white miso; sea bream with kale in Granny Smith apple juice with a gelee of lovage; roast pigeon in a sauce of its own gizzards with green cardamom and citrus; and an intriguing dessert of rice pudding wrapped in rice roll with mirabelle plums stewed with vin jaune. [$$$]

White fish fillet in a light colored broth in a gray bowl with crimped edges. On top of the fish are pieces of fried skin, leaves and flowers for garnish
Pike perch, sparkling apple and colander broth, citrus leaves and lovage oil
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6 rue Coquillière
Paris, Île-de-France

Channel your inner Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern by ordering the Tentation de Saint-Antoine (the Temptation of Saint Anthony), served at this famous brasserie in Les Halles that's been open nonstop — 24/7 — since it opened in 1947. Saint Anthony is the patron saint of charcutiers, and this plate includes a muzzle, ears, breaded pig's foot, and a tail with lashings of bearnaise sauce. This lively place satisfies less assertively carnivore appetites, too, with trays of oysters and other shellfish, and dishes like its famous onion soup and beautifully made sole meuniere. [$$-$$$]

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Pig's foot at Au Pied de Cochon
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5 Rue du Nil
75002 Paris, France

Chef Gregory Marchand's contemporary Frenchie has become a bona fide institution since it opened 12 years ago in a little lane in Le Sentier, Paris's old garment district. Marchand's cooking is incessantly inventive and reflects his international experiences in New York and London, and his tasting menus are perfect snapshots of how Paris wants to eat right now. Think cosmopolitan dishes like scamorza-stuffed agnolotti with butternut squash that's roasted and pickled in a bouillon spiked with raspberry vinegar and porcini mushroom jus. There's also guinea hen breast with roasted Treviso and a sauce of deeply reduced chicken stock. It's a chore to land a table, but it's totally worth it. [$$$]

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19 Rue Saint-Sauveur
75002 Paris, France

Following the success of the quartet's modern Israeli restaurant Balagan, Assaf Granit, Uri Navon, Dan Yosha, and Tomer Lanzman opened this hit, counter-seating-only restaurant in the Sentier quarter. Settle in at the pink marble counter that surrounds the open kitchen, and tuck into some superb Israeli inspired dishes with French touches, including eggs marinated in tea, slicked with tahini, and garnished with salmon eggs, gravlax with horseradish cream, red mullet with braised fennel, and wagyu beef with freekeh, eggplant caramel, and girolles mushrooms. For dessert don't miss the malabi, a sort of creamy panna cotta with figs and fresh raspberries. This is where the wild things are in Paris right now. [$$$]

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115 rue Saint-Denis
Paris, Île-de-France

The small dining room may have bare-bones decor, but you're here for the homemade jiaozi (small Beijing-style dumplings), which are probably the best meal you'll find in Paris for a fiver. Served grilled or boiled in orders of 10, they're stuffed with your choice of pork and green cabbage; mushrooms, beef, and celery; egg, chives, and shrimp; or tofu, mushrooms, and green cabbage. [$]

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136 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
Paris, Île-de-France

The neighborhood near the Gare du Nord train station is nondescript, and this tiny bistrot a vins packs its clients in like sardines. No one minds the humdrum location or the crowd, though, because the restaurant serves some of the best and most reasonably priced French comfort food in Paris. Chef Thomas Brachet's chalkboard menu changes daily but always offers an irresistible mix of contemporary dishes — like a salad of green beans, apricots, speck, and fresh almonds, or John Dory meuniere with vegetable accras (beignets) — and traditional ones, which may include langoustines with homemade mayonnaise, or the best homemade sausage and potato puree in Paris. The stuffed cabbage and rice pudding with cinnamon and orange shouldn't be missed either. Be sure to book a few days ahead of time. [$$]

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27 Rue d'Hauteville
75010 Paris, France

Since it opened in 2017 in the 10th Arrondissement, chef Adrien Ferrand's friendly table has become one of the city's best contemporary French bistros. The restaurant reflects its bustling, working-class district in the heart of Paris, home to two of the city's busiest train stations, Gare du Nord and Gare de L'Est. Sand-blasted cast-iron pillars, vintage tile floors, and exposed brick walls create an industrial-chic backdrop for nervy and inventive dishes. Starters include smoked eel with Granny Smith apple, liquorice, and hazelnuts, and endive braised with scamorza and chestnut cream. Mains feature grilled quail with pattypan squash and beets, a jus flavored with tarragon and black currants, and almond brittle, as well as beef filet en croute with ceps, salsify, and a mandarin orange garnish. The desserts are great too, like a tartelette of coconut-vanilla cream with grapefruit and parsnip marmalade. [$$$]

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13 Rue Chapon
75003 Paris, France

From the moment it opened in May, 2021, this bistrots a vins in the Marais has been packed to the gills by a crowd who love proprietaire Sarah Michielsen's hospitality, sommelier Bastin Fidelin's wine list, and the delicious cosmopolitan modern bistro cooking of chef Julien Chevallier. The chalkboard menu evolves constantly but runs to dishes like baby clams steamed with herbs and shallots in white wine, vitello tonnato, braised beef cheek in breadcrumbs with a beef jus and baby vegetables, and tiramisu with toasted hazelnuts. This stylish comfort food is exactly what Paris is hungry for right now, especially paired with charming service and a great selection of wines by the glass. [$$]

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Outside Parcelles
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13 rue Philibert Lucot
Paris, Île-de-France

The 13th Arrondissement is the largest of Paris's Asian neighborhoods, with a mixed population originating from China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Head to Pho Tai for an excellent bo-bun composed of freshly made nem (deep-fried spring rolls) and sauteed beef on a bed of rice noodles with an umami-rich sauce. The namesake pho is very good, too. [$]

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An order of Petit Pho (small beef noodle soup) is prepared at Pho Tai
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111 rue Vieille du Temple
Paris, Île-de-France

Brittany-born Bertrand Larcher's brilliant creperies are found everywhere from Cancale to Tokyo. In Paris, Larcher's kitchens star first-rate Breton produce, and his outpost in the Marais is a terrific choice for a meal of galettes and crepes. Go with a smoked herring- and potato-filled galette, then tuck into a matcha and white chocolate mousse-filled crepe garnished with strawberries. There are five other addresses in Paris, so check the website for the one nearest you. [$-$$]

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13 Rue de Crussol
75011 Paris, France

Paris has dozens of North African restaurants serving couscous and tagines, but what sets this cheerful Moroccan restaurant apart is the outstanding quality of its produce, making it a favorite among Parisian chefs. Here, the couscous is made with fresh seasonal vegetables and succulent baby lamb from the Pyrenees. They also bake their bread and North African pastries in-house, while the wine list features an interesting selection of mostly natural wines. The atmosphere is vivid but avoids cartoonish indulgence, with mosaic-topped tables, lanterns, and candles. [$$]

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4 Rue Biscornet
75012 Paris, France

At his bistro that looks like an Edward Hopper painting near the Bastille, chef Christophe Philippe serves the best chocolate mousse in Paris. It's made from the sublime chocolate produced by Italian Claudio Corallo on the tiny African islands of Sao Tome et Principe. Unctuous, funky, deep, this dark fluff will leave you with a craving you'll never, ever escape. [$$-$$$]

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The dining room at L'Amarante
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54 Rue Godefroy Cavaignac
75011 Paris, France

The tongue-in-cheek decor nods to les routiers, the roadside restaurants once frequented by truck drivers — think red-and-white checkered tablecloths, plastic bread baskets, and moleskin banquettes. Deals like a solid two-course meal for 16 euros, including wine, have kept this jaunty bistro packed since it opened. The menu changes constantly but you can expect dishes like celery remoulade with crabmeat, steak au poivre, stuffed cabbage, beef braised with carrots, and chocolate mousse. [$$]

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80 rue de Charonne
Paris, Île-de-France

Given how hard it is to score a reservation at chef Bertrand Grébaut's relaxed modern bistro, you'll probably come to the table expecting a meal that will induce instant rapture. But that's not Grébaut's style. Instead, his cooking is "innocent, spontaneous, and balanced," in the chef's own words, which translates to superbly delicate, subtle dishes like mushrooms with oyster and foie gras bouillon, or seared tuna with raspberries and tomato water. Service is friendly and easygoing, and the loft-like space is airy. [$$$]

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80 Rue de Charonne
75011 Paris, France

Chef Bertrand Grébaut's seafood bar is perennially one of the hottest places in Paris right now. It does not take reservations, so if you want to beat the line, try to go right when it opens, at 7 p.m., or late, after 10 p.m. The menu changes daily, but offers dishes like smoked shrimp with roasted red pepper and white beans, tuna tartare, ceviche, oysters, crab fritters, and more. It also boasts terrific platters of raw seafood like clams, shrimp, sea snails, and other seaworthy delights. [$$]

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9 Rue Camille Desmoulins
75011 Paris, France

Paris is filled with cafes du coin, or corner cafes, but very few of them serve such good food at such reasonable prices all day long. Run by trendsetting restaurateur Florent Ciccoli, this cheerful, popular place in the super bobo 11th Arrondissement changes its chalkboard menu daily, but you'll likely find dishes like freshly baked pizzettes, caillette (a caul fat-wrapped, herb-filled sausage patty garnished with pickled mustard seeds on a bed of potato puree), and blood sausage with roasted corn and guindillas (pickled green peppers from Basque country). Don't miss the lemon tart for dessert. [$$]

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1 Rue Pradier
75019 Paris, France

An old working-class neighborhood on the northeastern edge of Paris (and the birthplace of Édith Piaf), Belleville is coming on strong as one of the most interesting food neighborhoods in Paris. Brother-and-sister team Léa and Louis-Marie Fleuriot run this very affordable modern bistro in a former corner cafe. While she works the kitchen, he runs the dining room, and together they offer the kind of market-driven cooking that exemplifies the area. The petroleum-blue facade has big picture windows, and inside there's an indigo-painted zinc-topped service bar, an open kitchen, and wooden tables with cloth napkins and French-made Opinel knives. The chalkboard menu changes daily but runs to dishes like mussels in creamy, saffron-spiked bisque, haddock in coriander court bouillon with mushrooms and potato puree, and egg-rich, caramel sauce-lashed creme caramel. [$$]

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32 rue Saint-Maur
Paris, Île-de-France

Chef Tatiana Levha's market-driven cosmopolitan French cooking reflects both her French-Russian-Filipino background and her training at two of the most exalted temples of haute cuisine in Paris, Arpège and L'Astrance. Occupying an old cafe with wedding-cake molding on the ceiling, Le Servan pulls an arty young crowd from one of the last authentically bohemian neighborhoods in Paris. A perfect example of her cooking is the steamed baby clams in a chile-spiked, coriander-brightened fish sauce, which is usually on the menu. But don't sweat it if they're not available, since everything she cooks is fresh, vivid, and generously served. [$$]

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5 rue Saint-Bernard
Paris, Île-de-France

The talented couple Omar Koreitem and Moko Hirayama run this friendly cafe-bakery, the place to head for a casual but outstanding lunch or snack. Franco-Lebanese chef Koreitem creates the savory dishes, such as bonito with spring tabbouleh, while Japanese chef Hirayama is a superb baker, serving up fennel, pickled lemon, and almond cookies, and flourless chocolate layer cake with coffee-mascarpone cream. Open from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., it's deservedly one of the most popular places in eastern Paris. [$$]

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Chouquettes at Mokonuts
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3 rue Jouye-Rouve
Paris, Île-de-France

When Paris chefs want to unwind they head for this little wine bar in Belleville where Argentine-born self-taught chef Raquel Carena serves up some of the most deeply satisfying food in Paris. The chalkboard menu changes constantly, but Carena loves offal and fish, and her palate favors tart and sweet-and-sour flavors, as seen in dishes like mackerel tartare with smoked vinegar, tuna steak with black cherries, and rabbit and mushroom ragout with red wine sauce. The bohemian soul of rapidly gentrifying Belleville has taken refuge here, too. So go now while the good times last. [$$$]

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A server prepares a place setting before lunch service at Le Baratin
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1. Comice

The bulk of Paris's famed haute cuisine is fiscally out of reach for many. However Michelin-starred Comice, headed by Canadian chef Noam Gedalof and sommelier Etheliya Hananova (the two are married), is an indulgence that won't completely melt your credit card. The look strikes a similar balance: elegant but relaxed, with striking arrangements from a renowned local florist. Hananova's wine list — which features lesser-known wines from around the world — is terrific, as is Gedalof's light, inventive contemporary French cooking. Try the duck foie gras with hazelnuts, strawberries, balsamic, and black pepper, or the roast chicken with polenta, wild mushrooms, and a salad of wild herbs. [$$$$]

31 Avenue de Versailles
75016 Paris, France

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2. Le Bistrot Flaubert

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A casually luxurious menu
Le Bistrot Flaubert

Originally founded in the 1980s by chef Michel Rostang, this cozy bistro with flea market decor has been taken over by chef Nicolas Baumann and one of the most innovative restaurateurs in Paris right now, financier Stéphane Manigold. Korean-born chef Sukwon Yong, who used to work with Rostang, leads the kitchen, and his Asian spin on French bistro cooking has made this one of the most interesting and satisfying restaurants in western Paris. Expect dishes like Korean beef tartare with avocado mousse and puffed rice, and lumache (snail-shaped pasta) with rabbit confit, red curry, and kimchi. The prix fixe lunch is a real bargain in an expensive part of Paris.

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10 Rue Gustave Flaubert
75017 Paris, France

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3. Restaurant Arnaud Nicolas

With excellent handmade pates, sausages, and terrines, award-winning charcutier and chef Arnaud Nicolas has revived an ancient branch of French gastronomy. The space, on a leafy avenue in the silk-stocking Seventh Arrondissement, is decorated with exposed stone walls, a beamed ceiling, and battleship-gray moldings. Roasts and meat pies, Gallic pleasures that date back at least to the Middle Ages, figure as first courses, before an evolving menu filled with seasonal produce. Nicolas shows off his style with turbot cooked with cep mushrooms, salmon koulibiak for two, beef cheek braised with carrots in red wine, veal sweetbreads with girolles mushrooms, and a luscious chocolate souffle. [$$$$]

46 Avenue de la Bourdonnais
75007 Paris, France

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4. Jean Imbert au Plaza Athénée

A chef moves a sheath of pastry over ingredients in a shallow sauce in a decorative shallow bowl
Vol au vent
Boby Allin

After the bombshell news in June 2021 that chef Jean Imbert would replace chef Alain Ducasse in the kitchens of the Hotel Plaza Athénée, the upstart cook made skeptical Parisians swoon when he unveiled his menu of classic French dishes at his new eponymous restaurant last September. "I believe in the great traditions of French gastronomy," says Imbert, who eschews the headstrong creativity of some of his young peers. Imbert subtly tweaks and revises classic dishes to make them elegantly modern, as seen in a signature dish like a deconstructed vol au vent (usually a pastry case filled with crayfish, veal sweetbreads, and mushrooms in cream sauce), which comes to the table with the plated ingredients hidden under a round golden pane of fragile puff pastry. Don't miss the whole poached turbot stuffed with asparagus or the spectacular multi-course dessert. This restaurant is by no means cheap, but it offers better value for the money than most other tables at this gastronomic altitude. [$$$$]

25 Av. Montaigne
75008 Paris, France

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5. Chez L'Ami Jean

Chef Stéphane Jego's heaving Left Bank bistro is perpetually packed. Like so few other Parisian chefs, Jego knows how to deliver beautiful, traditional French bistro food, modernized with tweaks so subtle most people won't even notice. He's barely touched the 1930s space since taking it over nearly two decades ago from a Basque rugby pub. The earthy dishes, often inspired by southwestern French farmhouse food, are so deeply satisfying you won't mind the occasionally slow service or boisterous regulars. The menu includes Parmesan soup with cabbage and bonito flakes, roasted pigeon with thyme and garlic, roast lamb with smoked oregano, and light and fluffy rice pudding. [$$$]

27 Rue Malar
75007 Paris, France

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6. Restaurant David Toutain

After working with Alain Passard and Marc Veyrat, David Toutain first wowed Paris at Agapé Substance in Saint-Germain. Now he has his own place, and his constantly changing tasting menus (which range from 70 to 250 euros) deliver some of the boldest and most interesting food in Paris. Think dishes like seared foie gras in baked potato bouillon with black truffles; a monochromatic white composition of cuttlefish with yuba; and nearly translucent Parmesan gnocchi, seasoned with the juice extracted from cooking the cheese at very low temperatures for hours. [$$$$]

29 rue Surcouf
Paris, Île-de-France

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7. La Scene

Chef Stéphanie Le Quellec's glamorous subterranean dining room feels like a luxury railroad car, with the chef working in a theater-like open kitchen at the head of the room. It's fun and amusing, which is the point. Le Quellec has reinvented French haute cuisine for the 21st century, offering diners a good time instead of another long stuffy experience. Her cooking is light, lucid, and precise, with touches of gastronomic wit. Poached langoustines come with buckwheat and a quenelle of blanc-manger and claw meat. Scottish grouse with morels is cooked with smoked tea. Veal sweetbreads arrive with roasted cauliflower and harissa. And a ganache, featuring Criollo chocolate from Venezuela, is made with olive oil. La Scene is one of the rare Paris restaurants that works as well for a romantic tete a tete as it does for a business meal. [$$$$]

32 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris, France

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8. L'Arpège

Okay, it costs a freaking fortune, but the vegetarian dishes cooked by three-Michelin-starred chef Alain Passard often come as close to nirvana as Paris can deliver for vegetarians. They're so good that accompanying non-vegetarians will be tempted, although fish and meat are also on the menu. Passard's vegetables come from his own organic farm, and what you'll get depends on what's available at the time. A sample of Passard's talent with the bounty of the garden includes dishes like ratatouille-stuffed ravioli with an infusion of purple basil and a vol au vent (puff pastry) filled with baby peas, turnips, and snow peas in a sauce spiked with Cote du Jura wine. It's worth pointing out that people have strong feelings about L'Arpège — the restaurant has its share of critics, including Eater's own Ryan Sutton. [$$$$]

84 rue de Varenne
Paris, Île-de-France

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9. Le Grand Restaurant

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The dining room at Le Grand Restaurant
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The French have a genius for offal cooking, especially veal sweetbreads. Maybe you love them already, but if not, there's no better souvenir to take home from Paris than a newly discovered favorite dish. The place to make this happen is Jean-François Piège's Le Grand Restaurant. He cooks the sweetbreads on walnut shells in a hot box and serves them with walnut mousseline and morels. [$$$$]

7 rue d'Aguesseau
Paris, Île-de-France

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10. Joséphine Chez Dumonet

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Chef Marc Amory prepares a Tournedos Rossini during lunch service at Joséphine Chez Dumonet
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With its lace curtains, cut-glass room dividers, and bentwood chairs, this century-old bistro is why you put up with all those terrible hours in economy class to get to Paris. The boeuf bourguignon is the best in the city. The dish is a testament to Gallic genius, calling for slowly simmering meat to create a flavor-rich sauce from the juices. You must book in advance, and don't miss the Grand Marnier souffle for dessert either. [$$$]

117 rue du Cherche-Midi
Paris, Île-de-France

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11. Mosuke

Roasted fish wrapped in a cylinder of banana leaf, resting to one side of a couscous salad dotted with herbs and flowers
Sole cooked in a banana leaf
Quentin Tourbez

In a year of lockdowns, young chef Mory Sacko was one of the stars of 2020 for the originality of his intriguing Afro-Franco-Japanese cooking in Montparnasse. The son of Malian immigrants to France, he grew up in the suburbs eating African dishes made by his mother and American fast food for an occasional treat. At a job at a big Paris luxury hotel, he discovered his fascination with cooking, and went on to work with two-Michelin-star chef Thierry Marx, a Japanophile who taught Sacko to love Japanese ingredients and techniques. Expect dishes like lobster in miso sauce with smoked pepper and lacto-fermented tomato, sole seasoned with togarashi shichimi, and lovage cooked inside of a banana leaf and served with a side of attieke, a couscous-like preparation of dried fermented cassava pulp. The name of the restaurant derives from the names of the chef and one of his heroes, Yasuke, the first and only African samurai, an emancipated Mozambican slave who lived in 16th-century Kyoto.  [$$$]

11 Rue Raymond Losserand
75014 Paris, France

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12. L'Assiette

It is quiet, hard-working, limelight-shunning chefs like David Rathgeber who make Paris such an enduringly terrific food city. He took over this locally famous restaurant — previously helmed by a flamboyant chef named Lulu who charmed the likes of late President François Mitterrand and other celebrities — and has made it one of the city's best bistros. It's well worth the trek to the quiet 14th Arrondissement for his deft take on traditional dishes like pork-knuckle rillettes with foie gras and a superb cassoulet. The menu also offers lighter fare, including sea bream tartare with green tomato and coriander jus, and cuttlefish carbonara. The creme caramel is nothing short of epic. [$$$]

181 Rue du Château
75014 Paris, France

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13. Menkicchi

A bowl of ramen topped with slices of pork, egg, and scallion, beside a plate of gyoza with dipping sauce
Ramen and gyoza
Menkicchi

Right in the heart of the city, midway between the Opera Garnier and the Musee du Louvre, you'll find a cluster of Japanese and other Asian restaurants along the Rue Sainte-Anne and adjoining streets. Stop by the very popular Menkicchi for some gyoza and a bowl of some of the city's best ramen. The regulars love the Le Speciale ramen, which comes with handmade noodles in rich pork bouillon, a marinated egg, a slice of pork breast, and seaweed. [$-$$]

41 Rue Sainte-Anne
75001 Paris, France

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14. l'Huîtrerie Régis

This minuscule, white-painted, no-reservations raw bar in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés is a pearl, and it serves the best bivalves in Paris. The owners get them shipped daily from pedigreed producers in the Marennes d'Oléron, Normandy, and Brittany on France's Atlantic coast. Start with some smoked scallops, tuck into a dozen oysters, and finish up with the runny chocolate tart. [$$-$$$]

3 rue de Montfaucon
Paris, Île-de-France

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15. Juvenile's

This friendly wine bar and bistro is the perfect place to find really good French comfort food and a great bottle of wine without the hassle of booking three months in advance. Scottish wine merchant and longtime Paris expat Tim Johnston founded the restaurant, which is now run by his daughter Margaux and her French boyfriend, Romain Roudeau. With Roudeau in the kitchen and the younger Johnston running the dining room, the pair orchestrate a Gallic gastronomic experience that lives up to their motto: "We always deliver the goods." The menu follows the seasons, but the kitchen displays its style with dishes like celery soup with cockles, chives with whipped cream, sauteed wild mushroom with egg yolk and prosciutto cream, duckling filet with Swiss chard and chestnuts, and scallops with leek, baby potatoes, and parsley cream. [$$-$$$]

47 Rue de Richelieu
75001 Paris, France

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16. Le Maquis

Located in the tranquil 18th Arrondissement far from the crowds of tourists around Sacre Coeur and the Place du Tertre, this laidback neighborhood bistro pulls a discerning crowd of locals and word-of-mouth customers from other parts of Paris for the excellent bistro cooking of Paul Boudier and Albert Touton. Many of their dishes have a Southern French or Italian accent, including superb homemade pastas, ceviche with shavings of poutargue (bottarga), and pork belly cooked in cider with roasted fennel. [$$-$$$]

53 Rue des Cloys
75018 Paris, France

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17. La Bourse et la Vie

Chef Daniel Rose's second Paris restaurant has become one of the city's best bistros. He delivers superb versions of the rock-of-ages French dishes that people yearn to eat. His superb foie gras de canard comes to the table perched on a fresh artichoke heart with a dribble of aspic-like shallot vinaigrette on the side, a brilliant detail. Don't miss the collier d'agneau provencal (braised lamb neck Provençal style) either. [$$-$$$]

12 rue Vivienne
Paris, Île-de-France

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18. KGB

At this sister table to chef William Ledeuil's Michelin-starred Ze Kitchen Galerie, young chef Martin Maumet has created one of the best restaurants on the Left Bank with his nervy, vivid, and inventive French cooking. A meal in the minimalist, gallery-like space begins with an assortment of hors d'oeuvres and then segues into a suite of Asian-accented contemporary French dishes that showcase vegetables and seafood. The menu evolves constantly, but options might include Sardinian gnocchi with mussels in herb-garnished shellfish bouillon, free-range heirloom chicken with carrots, and Iberian pork with roasted root vegetables and chimichurri sauce. Desserts are often made with vegetables, as in the butternut squash ice cream with chestnuts, pistachios, and yuzu. [$$-$$$]

25 Rue des Grands Augustins
75006 Paris, France

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19. Restaurant Granite

White fish fillet in a light colored broth in a gray bowl with crimped edges. On top of the fish are pieces of fried skin, leaves and flowers for garnish
Pike perch, sparkling apple and colander broth, citrus leaves and lovage oil
Paul Stefanaggi

Hidden on a small side street on the edge of Les Halles in the heart of Paris, this intimate restaurant sports contemporary decor of cutout wooden paneling and an open kitchen. It's become one of the most sought-after reservations in the city for the superb contemporary French cooking of young chef Thomas Meyer, the former sous chef to Anne-Sophie Pic at her three-Michelin-starred restaurant in Valence. Meyer presents his cooking in a tasting-menu format that showcases his perfectly tuned creativity, love of fresh seasonal produce, and culinary loyalty to his native Jura in the east of France. The menus evolve regularly, but standouts of a recent meal included a grilled cepe mushroom with meadowsweet-flavored sabayon and a sauce of deeply reduced mushroom jus and white miso; sea bream with kale in Granny Smith apple juice with a gelee of lovage; roast pigeon in a sauce of its own gizzards with green cardamom and citrus; and an intriguing dessert of rice pudding wrapped in rice roll with mirabelle plums stewed with vin jaune. [$$$]

6 Rue Bailleul
75001 Paris, France

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20. Au Pied de Cochon

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Pig's foot at Au Pied de Cochon
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Channel your inner Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern by ordering the Tentation de Saint-Antoine (the Temptation of Saint Anthony), served at this famous brasserie in Les Halles that's been open nonstop — 24/7 — since it opened in 1947. Saint Anthony is the patron saint of charcutiers, and this plate includes a muzzle, ears, breaded pig's foot, and a tail with lashings of bearnaise sauce. This lively place satisfies less assertively carnivore appetites, too, with trays of oysters and other shellfish, and dishes like its famous onion soup and beautifully made sole meuniere. [$$-$$$]

6 rue Coquillière
Paris, Île-de-France

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21. Frenchie

Chef Gregory Marchand's contemporary Frenchie has become a bona fide institution since it opened 12 years ago in a little lane in Le Sentier, Paris's old garment district. Marchand's cooking is incessantly inventive and reflects his international experiences in New York and London, and his tasting menus are perfect snapshots of how Paris wants to eat right now. Think cosmopolitan dishes like scamorza-stuffed agnolotti with butternut squash that's roasted and pickled in a bouillon spiked with raspberry vinegar and porcini mushroom jus. There's also guinea hen breast with roasted Treviso and a sauce of deeply reduced chicken stock. It's a chore to land a table, but it's totally worth it. [$$$]

5 Rue du Nil
75002 Paris, France

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22. Shabour

Following the success of the quartet's modern Israeli restaurant Balagan, Assaf Granit, Uri Navon, Dan Yosha, and Tomer Lanzman opened this hit, counter-seating-only restaurant in the Sentier quarter. Settle in at the pink marble counter that surrounds the open kitchen, and tuck into some superb Israeli inspired dishes with French touches, including eggs marinated in tea, slicked with tahini, and garnished with salmon eggs, gravlax with horseradish cream, red mullet with braised fennel, and wagyu beef with freekeh, eggplant caramel, and girolles mushrooms. For dessert don't miss the malabi, a sort of creamy panna cotta with figs and fresh raspberries. This is where the wild things are in Paris right now. [$$$]

19 Rue Saint-Sauveur
75002 Paris, France

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23. Raviolis Chinois Nord-Est

The small dining room may have bare-bones decor, but you're here for the homemade jiaozi (small Beijing-style dumplings), which are probably the best meal you'll find in Paris for a fiver. Served grilled or boiled in orders of 10, they're stuffed with your choice of pork and green cabbage; mushrooms, beef, and celery; egg, chives, and shrimp; or tofu, mushrooms, and green cabbage. [$]

115 rue Saint-Denis
Paris, Île-de-France

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24. Les Arlots

The neighborhood near the Gare du Nord train station is nondescript, and this tiny bistrot a vins packs its clients in like sardines. No one minds the humdrum location or the crowd, though, because the restaurant serves some of the best and most reasonably priced French comfort food in Paris. Chef Thomas Brachet's chalkboard menu changes daily but always offers an irresistible mix of contemporary dishes — like a salad of green beans, apricots, speck, and fresh almonds, or John Dory meuniere with vegetable accras (beignets) — and traditional ones, which may include langoustines with homemade mayonnaise, or the best homemade sausage and potato puree in Paris. The stuffed cabbage and rice pudding with cinnamon and orange shouldn't be missed either. Be sure to book a few days ahead of time. [$$]

136 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière
Paris, Île-de-France

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25. Eels

Since it opened in 2017 in the 10th Arrondissement, chef Adrien Ferrand's friendly table has become one of the city's best contemporary French bistros. The restaurant reflects its bustling, working-class district in the heart of Paris, home to two of the city's busiest train stations, Gare du Nord and Gare de L'Est. Sand-blasted cast-iron pillars, vintage tile floors, and exposed brick walls create an industrial-chic backdrop for nervy and inventive dishes. Starters include smoked eel with Granny Smith apple, liquorice, and hazelnuts, and endive braised with scamorza and chestnut cream. Mains feature grilled quail with pattypan squash and beets, a jus flavored with tarragon and black currants, and almond brittle, as well as beef filet en croute with ceps, salsify, and a mandarin orange garnish. The desserts are great too, like a tartelette of coconut-vanilla cream with grapefruit and parsnip marmalade. [$$$]

27 Rue d'Hauteville
75010 Paris, France

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26. Parcelles

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Outside Parcelles
Parcelles

From the moment it opened in May, 2021, this bistrots a vins in the Marais has been packed to the gills by a crowd who love proprietaire Sarah Michielsen's hospitality, sommelier Bastin Fidelin's wine list, and the delicious cosmopolitan modern bistro cooking of chef Julien Chevallier. The chalkboard menu evolves constantly but runs to dishes like baby clams steamed with herbs and shallots in white wine, vitello tonnato, braised beef cheek in breadcrumbs with a beef jus and baby vegetables, and tiramisu with toasted hazelnuts. This stylish comfort food is exactly what Paris is hungry for right now, especially paired with charming service and a great selection of wines by the glass. [$$]

13 Rue Chapon
75003 Paris, France

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27. Pho Tai

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An order of Petit Pho (small beef noodle soup) is prepared at Pho Tai
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The 13th Arrondissement is the largest of Paris's Asian neighborhoods, with a mixed population originating from China, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. Head to Pho Tai for an excellent bo-bun composed of freshly made nem (deep-fried spring rolls) and sauteed beef on a bed of rice noodles with an umami-rich sauce. The namesake pho is very good, too. [$]

13 rue Philibert Lucot
Paris, Île-de-France

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28. Breizh Café

Brittany-born Bertrand Larcher's brilliant creperies are found everywhere from Cancale to Tokyo. In Paris, Larcher's kitchens star first-rate Breton produce, and his outpost in the Marais is a terrific choice for a meal of galettes and crepes. Go with a smoked herring- and potato-filled galette, then tuck into a matcha and white chocolate mousse-filled crepe garnished with strawberries. There are five other addresses in Paris, so check the website for the one nearest you. [$-$$]

111 rue Vieille du Temple
Paris, Île-de-France

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29. Le Tagine

Paris has dozens of North African restaurants serving couscous and tagines, but what sets this cheerful Moroccan restaurant apart is the outstanding quality of its produce, making it a favorite among Parisian chefs. Here, the couscous is made with fresh seasonal vegetables and succulent baby lamb from the Pyrenees. They also bake their bread and North African pastries in-house, while the wine list features an interesting selection of mostly natural wines. The atmosphere is vivid but avoids cartoonish indulgence, with mosaic-topped tables, lanterns, and candles. [$$]

13 Rue de Crussol
75011 Paris, France

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30. L'Amarante

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The dining room at L'Amarante
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At his bistro that looks like an Edward Hopper painting near the Bastille, chef Christophe Philippe serves the best chocolate mousse in Paris. It's made from the sublime chocolate produced by Italian Claudio Corallo on the tiny African islands of Sao Tome et Principe. Unctuous, funky, deep, this dark fluff will leave you with a craving you'll never, ever escape. [$$-$$$]

4 Rue Biscornet
75012 Paris, France

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31. Aux Bons Crus

The tongue-in-cheek decor nods to les routiers, the roadside restaurants once frequented by truck drivers — think red-and-white checkered tablecloths, plastic bread baskets, and moleskin banquettes. Deals like a solid two-course meal for 16 euros, including wine, have kept this jaunty bistro packed since it opened. The menu changes constantly but you can expect dishes like celery remoulade with crabmeat, steak au poivre, stuffed cabbage, beef braised with carrots, and chocolate mousse. [$$]

54 Rue Godefroy Cavaignac
75011 Paris, France

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32. Septime

Given how hard it is to score a reservation at chef Bertrand Grébaut's relaxed modern bistro, you'll probably come to the table expecting a meal that will induce instant rapture. But that's not Grébaut's style. Instead, his cooking is "innocent, spontaneous, and balanced," in the chef's own words, which translates to superbly delicate, subtle dishes like mushrooms with oyster and foie gras bouillon, or seared tuna with raspberries and tomato water. Service is friendly and easygoing, and the loft-like space is airy. [$$$]

80 rue de Charonne
Paris, Île-de-France

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33. Clamato

Chef Bertrand Grébaut's seafood bar is perennially one of the hottest places in Paris right now. It does not take reservations, so if you want to beat the line, try to go right when it opens, at 7 p.m., or late, after 10 p.m. The menu changes daily, but offers dishes like smoked shrimp with roasted red pepper and white beans, tuna tartare, ceviche, oysters, crab fritters, and more. It also boasts terrific platters of raw seafood like clams, shrimp, sea snails, and other seaworthy delights. [$$]

80 Rue de Charonne
75011 Paris, France

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34. Café du Coin

Paris is filled with cafes du coin, or corner cafes, but very few of them serve such good food at such reasonable prices all day long. Run by trendsetting restaurateur Florent Ciccoli, this cheerful, popular place in the super bobo 11th Arrondissement changes its chalkboard menu daily, but you'll likely find dishes like freshly baked pizzettes, caillette (a caul fat-wrapped, herb-filled sausage patty garnished with pickled mustard seeds on a bed of potato puree), and blood sausage with roasted corn and guindillas (pickled green peppers from Basque country). Don't miss the lemon tart for dessert. [$$]

9 Rue Camille Desmoulins
75011 Paris, France

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35. Le Cadoret

An old working-class neighborhood on the northeastern edge of Paris (and the birthplace of Édith Piaf), Belleville is coming on strong as one of the most interesting food neighborhoods in Paris. Brother-and-sister team Léa and Louis-Marie Fleuriot run this very affordable modern bistro in a former corner cafe. While she works the kitchen, he runs the dining room, and together they offer the kind of market-driven cooking that exemplifies the area. The petroleum-blue facade has big picture windows, and inside there's an indigo-painted zinc-topped service bar, an open kitchen, and wooden tables with cloth napkins and French-made Opinel knives. The chalkboard menu changes daily but runs to dishes like mussels in creamy, saffron-spiked bisque, haddock in coriander court bouillon with mushrooms and potato puree, and egg-rich, caramel sauce-lashed creme caramel. [$$]

1 Rue Pradier
75019 Paris, France

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36. Le Servan

Chef Tatiana Levha's market-driven cosmopolitan French cooking reflects both her French-Russian-Filipino background and her training at two of the most exalted temples of haute cuisine in Paris, Arpège and L'Astrance. Occupying an old cafe with wedding-cake molding on the ceiling, Le Servan pulls an arty young crowd from one of the last authentically bohemian neighborhoods in Paris. A perfect example of her cooking is the steamed baby clams in a chile-spiked, coriander-brightened fish sauce, which is usually on the menu. But don't sweat it if they're not available, since everything she cooks is fresh, vivid, and generously served. [$$]

32 rue Saint-Maur
Paris, Île-de-France

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37. Mokonuts

Pastries sit on a cooling rack
Chouquettes at Mokonuts
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The talented couple Omar Koreitem and Moko Hirayama run this friendly cafe-bakery, the place to head for a casual but outstanding lunch or snack. Franco-Lebanese chef Koreitem creates the savory dishes, such as bonito with spring tabbouleh, while Japanese chef Hirayama is a superb baker, serving up fennel, pickled lemon, and almond cookies, and flourless chocolate layer cake with coffee-mascarpone cream. Open from 8:45 a.m. to 6 p.m., it's deservedly one of the most popular places in eastern Paris. [$$]

5 rue Saint-Bernard
Paris, Île-de-France

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38. Le Baratin

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A server prepares a place setting before lunch service at Le Baratin
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When Paris chefs want to unwind they head for this little wine bar in Belleville where Argentine-born self-taught chef Raquel Carena serves up some of the most deeply satisfying food in Paris. The chalkboard menu changes constantly, but Carena loves offal and fish, and her palate favors tart and sweet-and-sour flavors, as seen in dishes like mackerel tartare with smoked vinegar, tuna steak with black cherries, and rabbit and mushroom ragout with red wine sauce. The bohemian soul of rapidly gentrifying Belleville has taken refuge here, too. So go now while the good times last. [$$$]

3 rue Jouye-Rouve
Paris, Île-de-France

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