Where to Eat in Paris City Guide & Map

Is there any city in the world more associated with good food than Paris? France’s capital is world-renowned for its croissants, crêpes, wine bars, bistros, and fine dining restaurants – we would argue they’re as famous as the Eiffel Tower! But it’s not only French food that makes the city such an exciting culinary destination – the food scene in Paris is wonderfully diverse. And with passionate young chefs pouring their hearts and souls into new concepts, there’s never been a more exciting time to eat in Paris.

We’ve compiled all our Paris favorites in this foodie map. You’ll find the city’s top fine dining restaurants, bakeries, cocktail bars, ice cream shops, and more. Navigate the map easily either by scrolling through the list on the right or by clicking the points on the map. Places are listed in geographical order.

Our meal at Michelin-starred A.T. was exquisite, with every dish bursting with flavor and imagination. We declared it to be our best fine dining meal in Paris. We loved seeing inspiration from Japan and the Nordics, lots of local French ingredients, and a distinct fingerprint that, at the end of the day, we can only define as chef Atsushi Tanaka himself. And the artsy presentations match the impeccable flavors. The signature dish we most looked forward to tasting lived up to our expectations. Oval-shaped slices of raw carrot clung to the side of a ceramic bowl, adhered by dollops of carrot purée. Inside the bowl was a foamy Brittany spider crab bisque flavored with tonka and cocoa beans. This dish was rich, creamy, and layered, with a sweetness so pronounced we nearly asked for seconds instead of dessert.

Three-Michelin-starred Plénitude is a must-visit for fine dining lovers in Paris. Normandy-born chef Arnaud Donckele is a master of sauce, which he describes as “the soul of his cuisine.” Donckele focuses so much on sauce that he serves a small pot of it alongside each dish, asking guests to first taste the sauce on its own before eating the dish. His sauces are some of the best we’ve ever had – sophisticated, complex, and layered with diverse ingredients. But Plénitude is the whole package, from the food to the service to the setting. In fact, while the food was outstanding, the service stood out the most and is what compels us to return. You feel utterly spoiled and like a person of honor, but the service isn’t stuffy at all. The team made fine dining playful and fun. This was a truly exceptional meal that reinvigorated our love for French fine dining, from saucy start to sweet finish.

Café Isaka is an artisanal ice cream shop in Paris's 1st arrondissement serving Asian-inspired ice cream flavors. Our favorite was the pandan, which had a really lovely herbal, grassy taste (in the best way). We also liked the cinnamon, which tasted like Cinnamon Toast Crunch! Other flavors available during our visit included ube, White Rabbit candy, black sesame, and matcha.

Télescope has been open for over a decade, and it’s still one of the best coffee shops in Paris today. After Kabane, Télescope had the biggest pour-over menu we saw in Paris, with fifteen different coffees offered from six different roasters. We tried three: an anaerobic gesha from Peru roasted by Colonna (UK) with notes of jasmine, peach, and rose; an heirloom, honey-processed Ethiopian with bright pineapple notes roasted by Prodigal (USA); and a washed Kenyan with notes of peach, currant, and grapes, also from Prodigal (USA). The coffees were exceptional, easily some of the best of the trip, and it's easy to see why Télescope has such a great reputation.

For the ultimate night out in Paris, we recommend a visit to Vivant 2. The buzzy, energetic vibe feels more like a disco than a restaurant, with a smashing playlist loudly blasting hit after hit from ABBA, Madonna, and Michael Jackson. The space, with only a chef’s counter, is so tiny that you end up dancing with your neighbors. The biggest surprise? The food is actually mind-blowingly delicious, even in this party setting. Just like the music, the hits just kept coming, with flavor bomb after flavor bomb. We had sweet and salty tomatoes (peeled and marinated in vanilla), confit celeriac topped with an orange blossom sabayon, and, best of all, a beef tartare sandwich with fresh basil leaves and crispy, fried zucchini flowers as the “bread.” This ended up being one of our absolute favorite meals in Paris.

We first visited Holybelly in 2017, where we enjoyed the best pancakes of our lives. We returned almost a decade later, and we're happy to report that they live up to our memories. Our order at Holybelly? The savory stack, which comes with two pancakes, two eggs sunny side up, bacon, maple syrup, and bourbon butter. This butter is what makes this pancake serving so special – it’s a deliciously rich, sweet butter that reminded us of the cinnamon butter at Salt’s Cure in L.A. It’s totally addicting! Holybelly is walk-in only, so we recommend going on a weekday before 11 a.m. to avoid a long wait. The staff is super friendly and the vibe is great, with soft jazz music playing.

Du Pain et Des Idées serves some of the best croissants in Paris – but only when they’re warm. Swing by and don’t be shy in asking them when things will come out of the oven, because the temperature makes a world of difference when enjoying these pastries. (Trust us, we went twice and had drastically different experiences.) The signature pistachio and chocolate escargot gets a lot of love on the ‘gram due to its mesmerizing swirl, but the pain au chocolat was the winner for us. It was light and flaky, soft and crispy, buttery and chocolatey. Croissant heaven!

Breizh Café is a chain with locations in France and as far-flung as Tokyo, but it’s a reliable spot when you’re craving crêpes. Breizh uses 100% organic buckwheat from Brittany to make their thin pancakes, which results in a distinct, earthy flavor you won’t find at the crêpe carts around town. Our favorite was filled with truffle cooked ham, Comté cheese, and a fried organic egg. For dessert, there are sweet crêpes topped with butter, sugar, jams, syrups, and even ice cream. We recommend the location by Canal St. Martin for a sunny outdoor lunch.

One of Paris’ newer ice cream stores, JJ Hings, serves seasonal ice cream made with real fruit. We visited in the fall, and there were lots of grape and plum flavors on the limited menu. Kaitlin got the soft serve swirl with fragola grape and peanut butter ice creams in a brown butter waffle cone. It tasted like a PB & J! Anders got the “Mötley Crue” ice cream with a raw cream base, grape jelly, and a cinnamon cone crunch.

A passionate young team took over Le Cheval d’Or, serving modern, innovative Chinese food while still honoring cultural traditions. The restaurant offers two affordably priced tasting menus, one big and one small. The food is punchy, perfect, and playful, with fun French influences – for example, a shrimp toast and croque madame hybrid, and a savory chausson aux pommes pastry filled with apple and char siu pork. We especially loved the caviar-topped rösti de nouilles (made with noodles instead of potato), the silky, slippery wontons with chanterelle mushrooms, the mapo tofu tortellini, and, of course, the signature dry-aged roast duck served with crepes and condiments. This was one of our favorite meals and another spot we would be regulars at if we lived in Paris.

Soces, slang for “pals” in French, is a seafood-focused restaurant in Belleville from a former Clamato chef. Here we enjoyed a serving of scallop and pumpkin in a jalapeño broth, a potato salad with tzatziki and bottarga, and a fluffy omelette stuffed with mushrooms. But our favorite dish, by far, was the moules frites in a ginger butter and bergamot sauce. Aromatic, fresh, and absolutely one-of-a-kind. Save room for the baba au rum topped with cardamom cream.

Oobatz started as a pop-up during the pandemic before opening a brick-and-mortar location in 2024. It’s owned by Dan Pearson (the pizzaiolo) and Jessica Yang and Robert Compagnon (who also own Le Rigmarole and Folderol). The naturally fermented sourdough pizza is some of the thinnest we’ve ever had. There’s a nice crunch to the dough, and you can hold it up and all the toppings stay on. The pizzas are seasonal, and we couldn’t help but try a few. They are surprisingly light! We loved one with sweet corn, buffalo mozzarella, and onion, and we were blown away by a red sauce pie with meatballs and chives, which was tangy, acidic, salty, and so delicious. But perhaps our favorite combined thinly sliced potatoes with confit lemon and cream cheese. We finished with a pizookie (a pizza cookie!), gooey, warm cookie dough intentionally underbaked and served in a bowl topped with vanilla ice cream.

One of the best value-for-money tasting menus in Paris is at Maison by chef Sota Atsumi, one of our favorite fine dining restaurants in the city. The venue is beautiful, a two-story house with a record player, sleek furniture, and art installations on the ground floor, and a twirling staircase leading up to the open kitchen and dining room. The entire space is flooded with natural light from the skylight above the restaurant. It’s a place where you can linger, and we did so over a lengthy Saturday lunch, savoring wonderfully creative dishes like a rich koji rice risotto, candied porcini mushrooms with a cured egg yolk sauce, and, our favorite, raw scallops with baked pumpkin, raw cream, satsuma citrus, and Japanese juniper.

The croissant search is finally over! After testing 15 bakeries in Paris, we found the very best pastries at La Panifacture! The croissants here are so puffy and tall, with amazing structure and lamination – and, best of all, they keep baking and serving hot pastries every half hour until noon. The croissants have an amazing butter flavor with a moist center and crispy, flaky edge. The pain au chocolat was equally marvelous – fresh from the oven and steamy with melty chocolate. To die for! Their chausson aux pommes is the best version of the pastry we’ve had, and we enjoyed the pain suisse, too. This is, by far, our favorite bakery in Paris!

Le Favori is a small, primarily takeaway-focused spot serving breakfast and lunch sandwiches during their (limited) lunchtime opening hours. We tried the jambon, egg, and cheese, which is way better than NYC’s famous bacon, egg, and cheese! This was truly delicious, made with high-quality ingredients like a fluffy, buttery bun from Mamiche, soft, fluffy scrambled eggs and chives, cold slices of cooked ham, and melted cheddar cheese. The perfect hangover cure after a night out in Paris.

The Hood came onto our radar because they serve kaya-filled croissants on the weekends. As the kaya-obsessed individuals we are, we had to go! The croissants are from Terroirs d’Avenir, and they warm them in the oven, slice them in half, and pipe inside a sweet and salty pandan and coconut filling. It was just what we were craving! Too tempted by the other offerings on the menu, we also had to order the butter chicken with crispy paratha and the sambal oeuf mayo, a fun, spicy twist on the classic French dish. The menu is Malaysian-Singaporean, but their slogan is “unapologetically Asian, undeniably Parisian.” The same owners opened Nonette across the street during the pandemic, a takeaway shop serving donuts and banh mi. The donuts have fun flavors like chili crunch with Chantilly cream, salted egg yolk, pork floss and mayo, and our favorite – kaya.

There’s no set menu at Le Rigmarole. Instead, owners Jessica Yang and Robert Compagnon present you with a menu of seasonal ingredients they have in the kitchen that day and have a conversation with you about what you like and don’t like to eat. Then they design a custom, tailored tasting menu just for you! There are many different paths the menu can take based on your preferences, but it typically includes raw fish, tempura, yakitori, and pasta, as well as ice cream from Folderol, their ice cream shop. Highlights from our outstanding meal included butternut beignets, royal sea bream tartare, grilled cuttlefish with spicy homemade yogurt, scarpinocc (pasta pillows filled with garlic ricotta), and a tsukune (chicken meatball) served with a flaky flatbread. Le Rigmarole tailored the menu to our palates so well – we adored every bite. It’s a rare, special kind of luxury to have your opinions so highly valued, and it made us feel so special and cared for. This is a must-visit in Paris!

Natural wine and ice cream? While it might seem like an unlikely pairing, we think it’s a couple that is destined for a happy ending. Since Folderol serves two of our favorite things under one roof, this was naturally our most-visited spot in Paris. We love ice cream so much that we ended up going four times in ten days, and we also had Folderol’s ice cream twice at their other restaurants (Le Rigmarole and Oobatz). Folderol makes extremely small batches of artisanal ice cream, so the flavors change every few days. Our absolute favorite scoop was orange blossom, and we also loved the vanilla, almond, olive oil, and black sugar flavors. When it comes to the question of coupe or cone, go for the crispy vanilla cookie cone! It’s one of the best cones we’ve ever had. Don’t miss this spot in Paris – this is some of our favorite ice cream in the world.

A cassette player sets the mood, playing the likes of Elton John and James Taylor in one of Paris’ tiniest (and best) cafés. Dreamin’ Man serves coffees from Copenhagen (April, Prolog, Coffee Collective) and had three pour-over choices in addition to espresso-based drinks on our visit. They also serve house-made pastries, including a chestnut cake. Dreamin’ Man has three locations. This is a must-try coffee shop in Paris!

One of our favorite cocktail bars in Paris is Candelaria, a fun speakeasy in the back of a taco shop. Tacos are served until midnight, and cocktails are served until 2 a.m. every day. The vibe is awesome, dark and candlelit – it feels a bit like a Western saloon. The drinks are mostly (but not exclusively) agave-spirit-focused and often infused with different herbs and spices for added flavor. We tried one cocktail with Thai basil-infused tequila, melon, and pineapple weed, which was easy-drinking, but our favorite cocktail, "Brat Girl Summer," featured cumin-seed-infused tequila, apricot, and Lutèce. This drink was sour, complex, and compelling. The cumin really kept us coming back for more! It tasted like barbecue sauce in the best way, and we couldn't put it down. This was one of the most interesting cocktails of the year for us!

Trying a classic jambon beurre (a ham and butter sandwich) is a must when in Paris, and Caractère de Cochon is a perfect place to do so. It’s a small butcher shop located near Marché des Enfants Rouges, with a friendly, passionate owner. You can feel their dedication to service – only one party is allowed inside at a time so they can give each guest their full attention. Pick from fridges full of cooked and cured hams varying in fat content and price levels – some are French, some are Italian, and some are infused with herbs or fruits for added flavor. Their baguette is chewy in the middle and crunchy on the outside, and their meats are of such high quality that the fat has a melt-in-the-mouth texture. Stock up for a picnic here with cold cuts, pickles, and wine, and head to a nearby park for the true Parisian experience.

Kawa is a local roaster with two cafés in Paris. There are only pour-overs and espresso-based drinks served here (no batch brew), and the prices are on the higher side. Pour-overs range from €8 to €18, but the coffee is so good it definitely felt worth the splurge. We tried one pour-over from Panama with notes of lychee, pineapple, and chardonnay, and our favorite – a natural Ethiopian coffee with notes of tropical fruit, bergamot, and blueberry. Not only did the baristas make exceptional coffee, but they also gave us a handwritten list of other great cafés to try in town.

Another favorite Paris cocktail bar is Bar Nouveau, from the team behind A Bar With Shapes for a Name in London. Bar Nouveau has two floors – upstairs takes you back to the 19th century, with a classic vibe and old-school French music playing. The signature drink here is the Ramos, their take on a Ramos gin fizz with St. Germain, peat, grain, and vanilla yogurt. It tasted like a smoky vanilla milkshake with a jasmine flower on top – really aromatic and delicious. It could almost be a dessert! We also loved the dry daiquiri with rum, Campari, and passion fruit. Heading to the downstairs bar was a bit like time traveling back to the future. The concept here is the flipped mirror image of upstairs. They literally hand you the menu from upstairs, pull out a UV light, and written on the menu is a whole new set of drinks – the same cocktails, but now reimagined in 2024.

Dining at L'Ambroisie is like traveling back in time – and not only because the menus for women don’t list prices. (Yikes!) The restaurant opened in 1986 and has had three Michelin stars since 1988. The setting is stunning, located on the beautiful Place des Vosges, a square with a grand, royal feel. The restaurant is split into three small dining rooms; it feels like a fancy mansion, with chandeliers hanging from the ceiling. The classic French menu at L'Ambroisie is à la carte, but each plate costs about as much as a full tasting menu elsewhere, and they recommend at least three courses per person. The name L'Ambroisie means "food of the gods," and some dishes truly live up to that title. The iconic sea bass and artichoke dish swimming in a sea of caviar is a must-try, and we loved the savory ile flottante, an egg white soufflé with a creamy mushroom emulsion and crispy croutons. But our favorite dish of all was the signature langoustine feuillantine with curry sauce and a sesame cracker.

Septime is one of the most famous restaurants in Paris. Opened in 2011 by chef Bertrand Grébaut, it has one Michelin star and has frequently been ranked on The World's 50 Best Restaurants list. Reservations are tough, but not impossible; go here to enjoy a creative tasting menu in a more formal French bistro setting. The seven-course menu is mainly vegetable-driven, featuring local produce and seafood. Highlights from our meal included a corn tostada with mushrooms and Comté cream, and our absolute favorite, trout with a veggie XO sauce. Good vibes, great wines, and friendly staff made the experience especially memorable.

Clamato is a seafood-focused eatery from the Septime group, located right next to their flagship fine dining restaurant. Clamato, however, is quite casual, with mostly counter seating as well as a few tables. Our favorite dish was a black mullet tiradito with verjus made from chasselas grapes and bay leaf oil, and we also loved a serving of raw Dieppe scallops with a squeeze of preserved kalamansi juice and a sprinkle of sea salt. Don’t leave without ordering the signature dessert: the maple syrup tart with vanilla chantilly cream. It tastes like a pancake in pastry form! This dessert is so good that you’ll want to eat it again – and, luckily, you can easily do so since it’s also available at their bakery, Tapisserie. Note: there are no advance reservations at Clamato (it’s walk-in only!), so arrive before opening to snag a seat.

Since their success with Septime, Grébaut has expanded with more restaurant concepts in the neighborhood, all pretty much on the same block. In 2012, the team opened Septime La Cave, a cozy, tiny natural wine bar with small bites and snacks like cheese and charcuterie. They have wines by the glass for €6 to €15 and bottle prices starting at around €30. This is a great spot for a pre- or post-dinner drink in the neighborhood.

Tapisserie, Septime’s bakery, serves viennoiserie in the morning and patisserie items through the afternoon. In addition to the iconic maple syrup tart made famous at Clamato, you need to try the "choux à la flouve," a choux pastry filled with a cream flavored with sweet vernal grass. This plant has a rich, deep flavor that reminded us of tonka bean, vanilla, and licorice. We went back for seconds – it’s the best choux pastry we’ve ever had! We also loved a seasonal feuilleté pastry filled with figs, orange blossom cream, and olive oil. The pastry had beautifully caramelized layers, and the floral cream was to die for.

Calling all coffee nerds! The coffee menu at Kabane is as extensive as a wine list, and with prices to match. (Prices range from €11 to €47 for a pour-over.) The list features specialty roasters from all over the world, from Hong Kong to the U.S. to Scandinavia. We tried a natural gesha from Panama, roasted by local Parisian roaster Kawa, with notes of apricot, mango, passionfruit, clementine, honey, and vanilla, and a natural anaerobic coffee from Colombia roasted by Standout in Sweden, with chocolate, raspberry, red currant, and vanilla notes. These were some of the best coffees we’ve ever tasted, thanks to the extremely precise and technical brewing by Pierre-Jacques Antiao, who is clearly a master of his craft. The atmosphere in the greenhouse-like space is calm and cozy, quirky and eclectic, with glass ceilings, lots of plants, and old music playing. The café is laptop-free, but it’s an ideal place to read a book.

Legendary Bistrot Paul Bert is a Paris institution, world-renowned for their steak au poivre. We loved every minute of our meal here, from the food to the wine to the exceptionally friendly service. Paul Bert’s famous pepper steak totally lives up to the hype. The rich, complex sauce is without a doubt the best pepper sauce we’ve ever had. It is creamy, buttery, spicy, with a slight sweetness and a nutty note from Armagnac, which is flambéed in the kitchen. Other must-try dishes include the veal brain poached in lemon butter, the foie gras with kumquat chutney, the oeuf mimosa (a hard-boiled egg filled with egg salad topped with salmon roe), and the leeks vinaigrette. The signature Paris-Brest dessert is quite rustic in texture, but we loved the rich hazelnut cream filling.

Mokonuts has been a Parisian lunch hotspot for the last decade, led by husband-and-wife chef and pastry chef duo Omar Koreitem and Moko Hirayama. The restaurant serves a daily-changing menu with French, Japanese, and Lebanese influences. There are only a handful of dishes available, so you can order them all! For starters, we enjoyed the creamy labneh with bread and the fresh, fatty tuna crudo with pesto and shiso. We loved the mains, especially the chicken, with its crispy skin and creamy mushroom sauce. The swordfish with an herb sauce and white coco beans was also delicious. For dessert, we had a moist satsuma citrus cake and, of course, the signature trio of cookies: chocolate chip, miso sesame, and our favorite of the three, a coconut, turmeric, and ginger cookie with flavors that transported us to Singapore. Note: This place is popular! Reserve six weeks in advance to get a table.

Former food critic turned chef Bruno Verjus opened his first restaurant at the age of 54. Table started as a casual à la carte spot but now serves a tasting menu and ranks high on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants list. After fifty years on the guest side, Verjus designed the experience he wanted to have as a customer, aiming to nourish his guests through food and service. It’s a beautiful restaurant with a swirling, bulbous counter and swiveling stools. Verjus lets his team shine in the kitchen while he sits at the counter, chatting and greeting guests as they enter. The whole experience has a cozy, homey vibe – it feels like you're dining in his (very upscale) kitchen. Our favorite dish of the meal was a Brittany scallop with a vin jaune and curry emulsion, and we also loved the Atlantic tuna cooked like a pepper steak. Of course, save room for the signature chocolate and caviar tart.

Our favorite casual restaurant in Paris is Dandelion, a modern French bistro from Antoine Villard (former sous chef of Septime) and sommelier Morgane Souris (formerly of Parcelles). Everything about the place is absolutely charming; we’d be regulars here if we lived in Paris. We started with mind-blowing "hashbrowns" with a foamy Comté cream and raw scallops in a brown butter caper sauce. We adored the cavatelli with vin jaune, ceps, and breadcrumbs, and savored every bite of the Poulette de Garat, an extra-juicy chicken that's an homage to Arpège. While the savory dishes were all outstanding, it was the dessert that soared onto our best dishes of the year. The light-as-air chou à la Tropézienne was filled with an orange blossom vanilla cream, with a dusting of powdered sugar on top. Floral, aromatic, rich, and buttery – the ultimate cream puff. It was so good that we ordered a second round – and, trust us, you’d do the same.

Located about an hour south of Paris, Le Doyenné is worth a journey for any foodie visiting France. The place is absolutely serene, a paradise where time stands still. Australian chefs James Edward Henry and Shaun Kelly have spent years preparing the land, planting the garden, renovating an old stable into a farmhouse-style dining room, and building beautiful guest rooms for those who wish to stay overnight. (Trust us, you do!) The dining room is sprawling, spacious, with an open floor plan leading from the crackling fire to the kitchen. The hearthy smell of the fireplace permeates the air, and music plays on a record player. The tasting menu is a surprise, based on the fruits and vegetables harvested daily from their farm and kitchen garden, supplemented by local French meat, dairy, and seafood. Le Doyenné has already entered The World’s 50 Best list, and we’re sure there are more accolades to come. Le Doyenné is one to watch!