Au Vieux Comptoir
Saint-Honoré & Palais-Royal
Tiny zinc-bar bistro near Châtelet, GaultMillau toque, charcuterie from named Auvergne producers.
Forty-seat 7e bistro behind Musée d'Orsay, chef Patrick Plais's blanquette, lentil salad, chocolate mousse in a fruit-bowl.
Cinq-Mars is the dimly lit, dark-wood bistro the rive-gauche neighborhood reserves for itself, forty seats, polished concrete floor, exposed-stone walls, zinc bar, and the kind of bourgeois homemade French cooking the d'Orsay tourists three blocks over haven't found. Chef Patrick Plais runs the menu: lentil salad, escargots, homemade terrine, Conquet sausage with potato purée, blanquette de veau, hash browns, and a chocolate mousse served in a vessel close to the size of a fruit bowl. GaultMillau-recognized; The Infatuation, Paris by Mouth and Time Out cite it as a 7e classic. The unpretentious bistro Istanbul's design-aware visitors actually want, not the brasserie they're sold.
Forty seats, no spectacle, gut-busting blanquette. The 7e bistro that translates the standard, not the proxy.
At a Glance
View Type
Eiffel Tower, Seine River, Garden View
View Quality
Exceptional
Sunset
**** (4/5)
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