Beste uitzichten in Paris

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

Alain Passard's three-Michelin temple to vegetables on rue de Varenne.

Two Michelin stars, a Green Star, and surprise tasting menus.

Frédéric Anton's two-star kitchen 125m up the Eiffel Tower.

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

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

Gaël Orieux's quiet Michelin star, sustainable fish only, fifteen years running.

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

Christian Constant's cast-iron-pot canteen on rue Saint-Dominique.

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

Prince Roland Bonaparte's former mansion with Eiffel-facing rooms and Shang Palace's Cantonese kitchen.

Haussmannian Hôtel Majestic resurrected with rooftop L'Oiseau Blanc and a 360-degree dome view.

The only chateau-hotel in Paris, Laura Gonzalez interiors, walled garden and Bellefeuille's Michelin star.

Philippe Starck's 1970s post-office turned Trocadéro design hotel with rooftop kitchen garden.

Japanese-precision French classical pâtisserie on avenue de Breteuil, Saint-Honoré as the benchmark

Paris's oldest chocolate shop since 1800, Marie Antoinette's chemist's listed boutique on rue des Saints-Pères

Whitewashed teppanyaki bolthole, chef Koji Aida's Paris-Japan grammar since 2008.

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.

Frédéric Anton's 3-Michelin pavilion in the Bois de Boulogne.

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

1927 Trocadéro tea-room, marble tables, white aprons, view across to the Tower.

Philippe Starck's Mediterranean ground-floor in Evok's 16e flagship.

1-Michelin garden-supplied dining room in a private Passy château-hotel.

Franck Audoux's cocktail bar in a 1911 Hector Guimard Art Nouveau building.

Husband-and-wife Michelin star on avenue de Versailles, chef Noam Gedalof, sommelier Etheliya Hananova.

A working 'routier' off Trocadéro, checkered tablecloths, 18-euro lunch.

The 7e roastery that started Paris's specialty-coffee third wave in 2011.

Slavic luxe in a 1910 Art Nouveau hôtel particulier, Paris Society's caviar address.

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

Christophe Vasseur's 1875-listed bakery on rue Yves Toudic, pain des amis, escargots, no shortcuts.

Canal Saint-Martin's natural-wine institution, 400 references, plates from the kitchen behind the bottles.

The Australian-style breakfast counter that taught Paris to queue for pancakes, and serve them well.

Naturophile cave-à-manger by the canal, visiting chefs, no reservations, minimum-intervention list.

Charles Compagnon's open-plan neo-bistro, Asian-inflected cooking, no reservations, all-day kitchen.

French-spirits-only cocktail bar in a graffiti-clad doorway, World's 50 Best Bars regular.

Female-led cocktail bar with bi-fold windows on the Belleville-Canal axis, zero pretension, real depth.

Yann Couvreur's first patisserie since May 2016, the original room with the fox-mark logo

Mickaël Benichou's 2013 patisserie-boulangerie, painted-ceiling 19th-century shop, marble counter heaped with bread

Canal Saint-Martin Cambodian institution, bo bun, summer rolls, banana-tapioca dessert, packed every night.

1906 Art Nouveau bouillon, Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table.

République speakeasy hidden behind a working laundromat, push the right washing-machine door, climb the staircase.

Mexican street-food institution on rue Eugène Varlin, Canal Saint-Martin's handmade-tortilla bench since 2011.