Venues similar to Drouant

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

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

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

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

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

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

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

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

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

Three Michelin stars, Japanese precision in a Coq-Héron jewel-box dining room

Two-star Ducasse dining room overlooking the Tuileries, with Cédric Grolet desserts

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

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

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

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

Ten-seat omakase between Louvre and Place Vendôme, chef Satoshi Kobayashi's surgical edomae.