Best Classic & Iconic Institutions in Paris

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

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.

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

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

Crillon palace bar with eighteenth-century frescos, Kévin Rigault's 'A Sense of Memories' menu.

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

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

The original 1862 Ladurée tea room, the room that invented the Paris salon de thé.

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

Classical French pâtisserie under the Pyramides arcades, tea room facing the Tuileries

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

Mahogany expat bar from 1911, birthplace of the Bloody Mary, between Opéra and the Place Vendôme

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

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