Best Views in Paris

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.

Christophe Vasseur's 1875-listed bakery on rue Yves Toudic, pain des amis, escargots, no shortcuts.

Canal Saint-Martin's natural-wine institution, 400 references, plates from the kitchen behind the bottles.

The Australian-style breakfast counter that taught Paris to queue for pancakes, and serve them well.

Naturophile cave-à-manger by the canal, visiting chefs, no reservations, minimum-intervention list.

Charles Compagnon's open-plan neo-bistro, Asian-inflected cooking, no reservations, all-day kitchen.

French-spirits-only cocktail bar in a graffiti-clad doorway, World's 50 Best Bars regular.

Female-led cocktail bar with bi-fold windows on the Belleville-Canal axis, zero pretension, real depth.

Yann Couvreur's first patisserie since May 2016, the original room with the fox-mark logo

Mickaël Benichou's 2013 patisserie-boulangerie, painted-ceiling 19th-century shop, marble counter heaped with bread

Canal Saint-Martin Cambodian institution, bo bun, summer rolls, banana-tapioca dessert, packed every night.

1906 Art Nouveau bouillon, Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table.

1919 Place des Ternes brasserie, Laura Gonzalez interior, three-time MOF écailler.

2-Michelin institution off Place des Ternes, 45 years of haute French classicism.

MOF chef, 1-Michelin, Parisian-apartment dining on rue Bayen.

Jean-Marc Notelet's chalkboard bistro, spice-forward cuisine du marché near l'Étoile.

1883 Belle Époque seafood brasserie, Rostang family, daily-port-sourced fish.

The first Italian in Paris to win a Michelin star, 600-bottle list, 40 years on.

République speakeasy hidden behind a working laundromat, push the right washing-machine door, climb the staircase.

Ethiopian institution on rue Sauffroy, the 17e Batignolles room that has held the cuisine in Paris for decades.

Mexican street-food institution on rue Eugène Varlin, Canal Saint-Martin's handmade-tortilla bench since 2011.

Bertrand Grébaut's 11e neo-bistro that reset the gravitational centre east in 2011.

Greg Marchand's 2e bistro that rewrote the neo-bistro template in 2009.

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

The 2007 Sentier speakeasy that built modern Paris cocktail culture, still no reservations

The no-reservations rue du Nil counter from Gregory Marchand's group, natural wine and small plates

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

Contemporary Lebanese on rue de la Banque, Liza Asseily's Beirut-Paris dialogue

1890 Lyon-bouchon-style bistro, under the Dumant family from 2025, after Ducasse

The trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries you've seen on Instagram, boutique and salon

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.

Septime's no-reservations seafood sister, daily-catch small plates on rue de Charonne.

The Levha sisters' Franco-Filipino neo-bistro under a hand-painted ceiling on rue Saint-Maur.

The wine bar inside the Septime universe, 90 natural references, 30 standing seats, no booking.

Cyril Lignac's classified-monument bistro, fish-forward menu in an 1894 zinc-and-mosaic room.

The 11e's reference bistro, steak-frites, soufflé, white tablecloths and zero affectation.

Pauline Séné's Top Chef-pedigreed bistronomy at the more ambitious end of rue Paul Bert.

Belle Époque tiles, marionette-sized kitchen, neo-bistro cooking, opposite the Cirque d'Hiver.

Half-punk, half-precise, the natural-wine small-plates bistro that rewrote the 11e in 2011.

Oberkampf natural-wine canteen, charcuterie and small plates, run by ex-Chateaubriand.

Vegetable-driven neo-bistro with a 400-bottle wine list and savoury-leaning desserts.

Mok and Omar's lunch counter and bakery, Lebanese-Japanese-American detail in a 25-seat room.

Maxime Bouttier's first solo table, raw-and-living tasting menu on rue de la Folie Méricourt.

1902 Art Nouveau brasserie on Ledru-Rollin, Mucha frescoes, listed interior, honest cooking.

A turn-of-the-century café preserved without irony, zinc bar, red banquettes, all-day terrace.

Marble-clad tapas-and-wine room next to the old Chateaubriand, Rem Koolhaas interior, natural-wine list.

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

Cyril Lignac and Benoît Couvrand's original 11e patisserie, the Equinoxe was born here

Best Baguette de Paris 2024 winner, sourdough, charcoal-black tradition, and weekend croissant programme

Alain Ducasse's bean-to-bar manufacture in the 11e, Nicolas Berger's atelier behind a cobbled courtyard

Paris's oldest pâtisserie since 1730, Louis XV's pastry chef's listed shop on rue Montorgueil

Eight-seat sushi counter behind Place Louvois, surgical edomae from chef Masayoshi Hanada.

Two Michelin stars 2025, Tomoyuki Yoshinaga's ten-seat edomae masterclass.

Alajmo brothers' Paris outpost in an 1834 letterpress, Italian fine dining behind Philippe Starck's restoration.

Italian trattoria in a former Jean-Paul Gaultier boutique, Le Fooding 'Best Decor' 2017, still buzzing.

Mokonuts duo's chef-residency room, Le Fooding 2025 Honorary, rotating Palestinian / Korean / Filipino kitchens.

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.

Tiny natural-wine bar inside the covered Passage des Panoramas, a Paris postcard.

Brazilian asador, Lucas Baur de Campos's open-fire 11e room, Le Fooding, Infatuation cult.

Sardinian cuisine on a quiet 11e street, Francesca Feniello's traditional bistrot, Le Fooding selection.

11e cave-à-manger with one of Paris's deepest natural-wine cellars, 250+ cuvées.

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

David Lynch's 2011 members club six floors below rue de Montmartre, non-members welcome after midnight.

Manoj Sharma's modern Indian on rue de Choiseul, the 2e room that finally read Indian cooking as a chef's cuisine.

Modern Vietnamese on rue Amelot, the 11e room that does the spring roll seven ways.

Julio Guerrero's neo-taquería on rue Lacharrière, Mexico-City standard, natural wine, Le Fooding register.