Venues similar to Café de Flore

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

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

The Goncourt Prize restaurant since 1914, Place Gaillon institution under chef Romain Van Thienen

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

The Saint-Germain sourdough institution since 1932.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Ritz's wood-paneled cocktail room, bookless reservations and a serious dry martini

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

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.

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

Belle Époque salon de thé since 1903, Mont-Blanc and chocolat l'Africain under the rue de Rivoli arcades

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

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