Best Views in Paris

The Académie française's secret canteen, in Voltaire's own building.

Alain Passard's three-Michelin temple to vegetables on rue de Varenne.

Two Michelin stars, a Green Star, and surprise tasting menus.

Frédéric Anton's two-star kitchen 125m up the Eiffel Tower.

Mathieu Pacaud's seafood Michelin star, behind the Esplanade des Invalides.

Tomy Gousset's Michelin-starred neo-bistro near the Esplanade.

Gaël Orieux's quiet Michelin star, sustainable fish only, fifteen years running.

The Bernard Loiseau group's Michelin-starred Palais-Bourbon canteen.

Christian Constant's cast-iron-pot canteen on rue Saint-Dominique.

The soufflé restaurant of the 7e, behind Le Bon Marché.

Prince Roland Bonaparte's former mansion with Eiffel-facing rooms and Shang Palace's Cantonese kitchen.

Haussmannian Hôtel Majestic resurrected with rooftop L'Oiseau Blanc and a 360-degree dome view.

The only chateau-hotel in Paris, Laura Gonzalez interiors, walled garden and Bellefeuille's Michelin star.

Philippe Starck's 1970s post-office turned Trocadéro design hotel with rooftop kitchen garden.

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

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.

Frédéric Anton's 3-Michelin pavilion in the Bois de Boulogne.

1900 Bois de Boulogne pavilion, Michelin star since 1965, Empire and Belle Époque rotunda.

1927 Trocadéro tea-room, marble tables, white aprons, view across to the Tower.

Philippe Starck's Mediterranean ground-floor in Evok's 16e flagship.

1-Michelin garden-supplied dining room in a private Passy château-hotel.

Franck Audoux's cocktail bar in a 1911 Hector Guimard Art Nouveau building.

Husband-and-wife Michelin star on avenue de Versailles, chef Noam Gedalof, sommelier Etheliya Hananova.

A working 'routier' off Trocadéro, checkered tablecloths, 18-euro lunch.

Antoine Westermann's Montmartre poultry house, heritage breeds, rotisserie at the top of the hill.

Five-suite hidden townhouse on avenue Junot, Le Très Particulier cocktail bar, 900m² Benech garden.

1889 Abbesses brasserie, shellfish counter, Cantal charcuterie, no Montmartre theatre.

The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.

Slavic luxe in a 1910 Art Nouveau hôtel particulier, Paris Society's caviar address.

Mikaela Liaroutsos's Greek bistro on rue Eugène Carrière, Michelin Guide listing, Le Fooding regular.

Basque auberge on Quai Saint-Exupéry, Pierre Oteiza Kintoa pork, pintxos, the Trinquet Village Seine-edge terrace.

Franck Baranger's bistronomy benchmark, Bib Gourmand on a Pigalle backstreet.

Jody Williams's all-day gastrothèque, the SoPi room that never feels off.

The XXL bouillon that put 19th-century working-class dining back on the map.

The original Pigalle boutique, leather banquettes, art on every wall, brunch all weekend.

Big Mamma's four-floor Florentine theatre under a Pigalle glass roof.

Candlelit 9e dining room, reborn under chef Lucie Boursier-Mougenot.

The 1896 original, Belle Époque listed dining room, twelve euros for blanquette.

Pigalle bar-restaurant by Fabien Lombardi (ex-Prescription), natural wines, aged cocktails, PUNCH-listed.