Paris Restaurants

In Paris, as anywhere else in France, dining out is one of the main pastimes, and an attestation of all the restaurants, brasseries, bistrosts à vins, coffee shops and salons de thé you can come across along the streets of the city.

Restaurants:
Paris is the perfect city for an unforgettable dinner. Even though you should watch prices, as it is quite difficult to find cheap restaurants, we offer you a selection of restaurants and places to eat in which are suitable for every taste and within affordable standards:

• Le Coude Fou (12, Rue du Bourg-Tibourg, Marais):
  Famous restaurant offering traditional and creative cuisine and good wines. Among its specialties we suggest the filet de cannette aux kumcoats and the entrecôte au bleu d’Auvergne.
• Le Capricorne (3 Bd. Richard Lenoir, Bastille):
  Restaurant with a cosy and cheerful atmosphere. The dinner menu is one of the best of the entire area and includes traditional dishes, such as the pavé de boeuf or the gratin de filet de dorade.
• Le Bourdonnais (113,La Bourdonnais, Trocadéro):
  Very smart restaurant. A supper à la carte is a little bit too expensive: just to have an idea, a fixed price menu costs “only” 42 euros at midday and 80 euros in the evening.
• Le Parc aux Cerfs (50, Rue Vavin, Montparnasse):
  Sober, but not too formal restaurant. Typical French cuisine, often delicious, included in the 20-30 euros menu. Excellent wine list.

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Brasseries:
Unlike restaurants, brasseries, which at first sight seem coffee shops, serve a lot of dishes (not too elaborated) all day long.

• Le Tilsitt (14 Rue de Tilsitt, near the Champs-Élysées):
  The favorite brasserie of the quarter, it is always busy for lunch.
• Brasserie Lip (151 Bd Saint-Germain):
  One of the most well-known brasseries of the Rive Gauche, gaining point for its patronage of rich people and V.I.Ps, good plats du jour, costing less than 20 euros.
• L’Eté en Pente Douce (23, Rue Muller, Montmartre):
  Reasonable prices and good meals (typical French dishes for 13 euros). Chairs and tables placed in the open air, on the staircase leading to the Sacré-Coeur.

For an accommodation in Paris in these areas, see our apartments in Paris Saint-Germain, Paris Champs-Elysées and Paris Montmartre.

Bistrosts à vins:
Bistrots are an antique institution in Paris. Among the oldest are Le Rubis (10, Rue du Marché-Saint-Honoré) or Le Baron Rouge (1, Rue Theóphile-Roussel), where the prices are quite low. The newest bistrots, on the contrary, are effected by a British influence, so that the atmosphere is usually a bit yuppie and the prices quite high.

Cafés:
In these spots you can have not only coffee, but also drinks and food. Here are two examples:

• L’Apparemment Café, (18, Rue des Coutures-Saint-Gervais, en el Marais):
  Café quite elegant, but very cosy. Try the salades composées, salads which you can make up by yourselves mixing all the ingredients you like.
• Café du Museé d’Orsay (1 rue Bellechasse, en el Trocádero):
  Cafè located on the last floor of the Musée d’Orsay. Here is one of the best views of the Seine and of Montmartre neighbourhood.

Tea shops:
They are a quite modern “invention”: with their smart atmosphere, tea shops’ clients are mostly feminine. Here you can find basically everything, from breakfast dishes to salads, desserts and ice creams. The most antique tea shop in Paris is Angélina (226, Rue de Rivoli), where the best hot chocolate of the city is served (but remember that a cup of hot chocolate with whipped cream costs 6 euros).

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