Venues similar to Loulou

The bistronomy capital of Paris, on the Carrefour de l'Odéon.

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

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

Basque auberge on Quai Saint-Exupéry, Pierre Oteiza Kintoa pork, pintxos, the Trinquet Village Seine-edge terrace.

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

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

A Provençal bistro hiding behind Place des Vosges, and the city's largest pastis collection.

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

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

Southwest French institution since 1894, Art-Nouveau dining room beside the Halles épicerie.

Tiny zinc-bar bistro near Châtelet, GaultMillau toque, charcuterie from named Auvergne producers.

1900 Bois de Boulogne pavilion, Michelin star since 1965, Empire and Belle Époque rotunda.

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.

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