Food & Dining
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Angelina
A Belle Époque tea room on rue de Rivoli, opened in 1903, famous across Paris for its thick "Chocolat Africain" hot chocolate and chestnut-cream Mont-Blanc pastry.
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Au Pied de Cochon
A Les Halles brasserie open 24 hours a day, every day, since 1947, built around its namesake grilled pig's trotter and a legacy of feeding market workers through the night.
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Berthillon
The Île Saint-Louis ice-cream house founded in 1954 by Raymond Berthillon, still churning small-batch sorbets and ices from a hotel-turned-parlour that spawned queues around the block.
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Bistrot Paul Bert
An 11th-arrondissement bistro widely cited as serving Paris's best steak-frites and Paris-Brest, its old-fashioned zinc-and-mirror dining room packed nightly with locals and food pilgrims alike.
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Breizh Café
A Marais crêperie opened in 2005 by Breton-raised Bertrand Larcher, credited with elevating the humble buckwheat galette using organic flour, artisan cider and premium fillings.
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Café de Flore
A Saint-Germain-des-Prés institution opened around 1887, the postwar haunt of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who reportedly wrote at its tables to escape unheated apartments.
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Chez Georges
A wood-panelled, zinc-countered bistro near the Bourse, open since 1964 and barely changed since, serving steak tartare, céleri rémoulade and other unreconstructed bistro classics.
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Du Pain et des Idées
A canal-district bakery in a preserved 1889 shopfront, run by former fashion-industry baker Christophe Vasseur, celebrated for its pistachio-chocolate escargot and pain des amis loaf.
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Fromagerie Barthélemy
A rue de Grenelle cheese shop that supplied the Élysée Palace under Nicole Barthélemy, stocking more than 200 mostly raw-milk cheeses aged in its own cellar beneath the Left Bank street.
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L'Ami Jean
A boisterous bistro near the Eiffel Tower run by chef Stéphane Jégo, serving hearty Southwest French and Basque-inspired dishes to a packed, convivial dining room since the early 2000s.
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L'As du Fallafel
The rue des Rosiers falafel stand whose queue has become a Marais landmark in its own right, serving stuffed pitas piled with fried chickpea balls, cabbage and hot sauce since the 1970s.
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Ladurée
A pâtisserie founded in 1862 whose staff is credited with inventing the modern double-decker macaron in the 1930s, its opulent Champs-Élysées salon serving them alongside tea and light meals.
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Le Comptoir du Relais
Chef Yves Camdeborde's corner bistro on carrefour de l'Odéon, widely credited with launching the "bistronomie" movement, pairing fine-dining technique with unpretentious bistro prices and setting.
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Le Procope
Founded in 1686 by Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, Le Procope claims the title of Paris's oldest continuously operating café, once frequented by Voltaire, Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin.
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Les Deux Magots
Café de Flore's next-door rival on Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, named for two carved Chinese figures still watching over the room, and a magnet for writers from Hemingway to Camus.
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Marché d'Aligre
One of Paris's liveliest and most affordable markets, spilling across Place d'Aligre with open-air produce stalls, a covered Beauvau hall and a well-known flea market corner since the 19th century.
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Marché des Enfants Rouges
Paris's oldest covered market, opened in 1615, takes its name from a nearby orphanage whose children wore red uniform coats, and today mixes fresh produce stalls with global street food.
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Pierre Hermé
The Saint-Germain flagship of the pastry chef nicknamed the "Picasso of Pastry," known for architecturally precise macarons in flavours like Ispahan (rose, lychee, raspberry).
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Poilâne
The Left Bank bakery founded in 1932 by Pierre Poilâne, still wood-fired and hand-shaped, whose sourdough "miche" loaf, stamped with a P, is exported and imitated worldwide.
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Septime
Bertrand Grébaut's minimalist, Michelin-starred restaurant on rue de Charonne, a fixture of the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, built around a short, produce-driven tasting menu with no à la carte option.