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.

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.

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

Faubourg Saint-Honoré palace, Epicure (3 Michelin) and the audience's safest 8e booking.

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

Two-Michelin glass pavilion at George V where the kitchen runs on vegetables, dairy and seafood, no meat.

Simone Zanoni's Mediterranean-Italian one-Michelin at George V, the palace alternative to a tasting menu.

Three-Michelin since 1996, the chef who taught Paris that haute cuisine could improvise.

Yannick Alléno's three-Michelin in a pavilion at the Champs-Élysées gardens, the sauce-extraction reference.

Yasunari Okazaki's two-Michelin sushi counter inside Pavillon Ledoyen, twelve seats, ikejime fish.

Alléno's one-Michelin counter format at Pavillon Ledoyen, the realistic same-week booking.

Jérôme Banctel's three-Michelin in a Napoleon III mansion off the Champs-Élysées.

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.

Stéphanie Le Quellec's two-Michelin counter-front room on avenue Matignon.

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

Two-Michelin in an 1884 mansion off the Champs, the Domaine Clarence Dillon dining room.

Paul Pairet's grill-and-rotisserie brasserie at the Crillon, the chic French fire-cooking room.

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.

One Michelin star inside Place des Vosges' most discreet pavilion, Marais gastronomy without the spectacle.

Fewer than 20 seats, one Michelin star, one chef's vision, the Marais's most surgical tasting menu.

The bistro mythology lives at #32 rue du Vertbois, controversial, expensive, irreplaceable.

The Marais corner where natural wine, oysters and serious cocktails collapse into one room.

Open-fire Marais bistro where côte de bœuf is grilled in front of you on a wood hearth.

A Provençal bistro hiding behind Place des Vosges, and the city's largest pastis collection.

Bertrand Larcher's original Paris crêperie, Bordier butter, Breton cider, Tokyo-trained discipline.

Argentinian carnivore room in a former butcher shop, relaunched with Mauro Colagreco's hand on the menu.

1864 Belle Époque brasserie under a stained-glass dome, choucroute, plateaux de fruits de mer, full theatre.

1924 corner bistro with an open kitchen, and Paris's most decorated bœuf bourguignon.

Paris's oldest covered market, since 1615, 21 stalls, all of lunchtime Marais, on one block.

The cult sandwich stall inside Marché des Enfants Rouges, 30-minute queue, 13.50€, no apologies.

Since 1979 on rue des Rosiers, the Pletzl falafel sandwich Lenny Kravitz and Natalie Portman keep coming back for.

World's 50 Best Bars veteran, eleven consecutive years on the list, peak rank #6 in 2023.

Taqueria up front, hidden cocktail bar through the back door, one of Paris's first speakeasies, still in form.

Whisky-led cocktail den behind a discreet 4e façade, Vogue called it one of the world's 20 best.

Mazouz brothers' Marais cocktail bar, North African-Pop Art mash-up, since 2001, with a hidden courtyard.

5-star hideaway behind ivy on Place des Vosges, 56 rooms, a courtyard, a Michelin-starred restaurant.

12 rooms, all looking onto Place des Vosges, Evok Collection's quietest, most contemplative Paris address.

Boutique design hotel inside a former metals factory, concrete, courtyard, cocktail bar at the centre.

12 rooms, exposed beams, quiet 4e side street, the Marais's small, well-priced character hotel.

Marais chocolatier with a tea room, millefeuille made à la minute, possibly Paris's finest caramels.

Myriam Sabet's Levantine pâtisserie, kadaïf 1001-feuilles that Istanbul visitors instinctively recognise.

Avenue Montaigne palace with red awnings, Dior Spa and Jean Imbert's gilded dining room.

The only European palace with three Michelin-starred restaurants and Jeff Leatham's florals.

1758 stone palace on Place de la Concorde, gold-scaled pool and Karl Lagerfeld suites.

Philippe Starck's contemporary palace with private cinema, Matsuhisa and the Clarins-MyBlend spa.

Pierre Yves Rochon-designed townhouse-palace near the Élysée with Michelin two-star Le Gabriel.

Gaston Lenôtre's flagship since 1957, the Plaine Monceau room that taught a generation of French pastry chefs

Robert Linxe's original chocolate boutique since 1977, the room that defined Paris bean-to-praline

Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2000 chocolatier, the Madeleine flagship with the life-size chocolate sculptures

France's oldest tea house since 1854, the Bourg-Tibourg flagship with the colonial-era painted casks

Counter-seat Korean, chef Kim Kwang-Loc's mandu and tartares, fashion-week regulars on stools.

Marais Korean BBQ, chef Sunghak Han's table-top grill, halal option, Michelin guide listing.

Mourad Mazouz's Marais Maghreb institution since 1990, tagines and pastilla under 17th-century beams.

1895 Saint-Lazare brasserie, Niermans mosaics, listed since 1989.

Emmanuel Ryon, MOF glacier, Pastry World Champion, turns gelato into Marais grand cru.

The Île Saint-Louis institution Gault Millau crowned in 1961, still family-run, still the standard.

Marais épicerie-fine + restaurant, Delphine Plisson's Dean & DeLuca answer for Paris.

Haut-Marais no-menu cocktail bar, bartender asks your mood, builds the drink around French organic seasonal produce.

Le Bristol's curiosity-cabinet bar, Maxime Hoerth, first bartender awarded Meilleur Ouvrier de France (2011).

Royal Monceau's Philippe Starck-designed long bar, Forbes Travel Guide Star Bars 2025 pick on Avenue Hoche.

Anatolian home cooking on rue Pasquier, the Madeleine room the Istanbul audience will actually recognise.

Vegan French on rue Saint-Paul, twenty-plus years reinterpreting French classics without animal product.

Sartre and Beauvoir's corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain since 1887.

The other Saint-Germain café, with the better view of the church.

Alsatian choucroute, landmarked Art Nouveau, the Académiciens' lunch.

Hemingway's table, a piano bar, and the steak that bears his name.

Two Michelin stars in the Hôtel de la Monnaie, looking at the Seine.

The bistronomy capital of Paris, on the Carrefour de l'Odéon.

William Ledeuil's Southeast-Asian-French cuisine, Michelin-starred since 2008.

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

Eric Trochon's industrial bistronomy on rue de Seine.

The tiny bistro between Saint-Sulpice and Luxembourg, Fooding-prize winner.

The only Palace hotel on the Left Bank, 1910 Belle Époque on Boulevard Raspail.

The Picasso of pastry, in his original Saint-Germain showcase.

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

Former Hugo & Victor relaunched under the chef's name, 2003 French Dessert Champion's first eponymous boutique

Japanese-French pâtisserie since 2001, matcha, yuzu and black sesame on classical French structures

1906 Art Nouveau room on the Left Bank, Chartier's brother house, listed.

The oldest café in Paris, opened 1686, Voltaire, Diderot, Franklin all ate here.

Saint-Germain hunting-lodge speakeasy by Thomas Codsi, Le Fooding-listed, weekend basement DJ floor.