Venues similar to Caïus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Anglophone-led tasting menu in a triplex above the Palais-Royal, Paris's quiet neo-bistro standard

Adeline Grattard's bistro reincarnation, Franco-Cantonese cooking after Yam'Tcha proper closes

Mediterranean cooking with a Tuileries terrace at the foot of the Louvre

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