Tour Eiffel & Invalides
Discreet rive gauche, Orsay axis, rue Cler market, L'Arpège, Le Jules Verne, embassy quiet.
The 7e holds the Tour Eiffel, Invalides, the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Rodin, and the rue Cler market street, the discreet rive gauche where the embassies sit and the traveller books the room for the post-Orsay lunch. Quieter than the 6e, more residential than the 1er; the chapter takes the Le Jules Verne ascension dinner, the Arpège-grade tasting menu (Alain Passard's three Michelin since 1996 on rue de Varenne), the Bon Marché-orbit lunch, and the David Toutain neo-bistro reach on rue Surcouf.
Highlights
Restaurant
13 places
Two Michelin stars, a Green Star, and surprise tasting menus.
Mathieu Pacaud's seafood Michelin star, behind the Esplanade des Invalides.
Gaël Orieux's quiet Michelin star, sustainable fish only, fifteen years running.
The Bernard Loiseau group's Michelin-starred Palais-Bourbon canteen.
Whitewashed teppanyaki bolthole, chef Koji Aida's Paris-Japan grammar since 2008.
Stéphane Jégo's Basque-Breton bistronomie since 2004, riz au lait that built a pilgrimage.
Forty-seat 7e bistro behind Musée d'Orsay, chef Patrick Plais's blanquette, lentil salad, chocolate mousse in a fruit-bowl.
Cafe
3 places
Japanese-precision French classical pâtisserie on avenue de Breteuil, Saint-Honoré as the benchmark
Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800, Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères
The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.