Venues similar to Auguste

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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