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18 rue Paul-Bert (Rue Chanzy), Paris, Île-de-France
French Restaurant · 107 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: Best frites. Steak au poivre was flawless, but might order steak for 2 next time (served on butcher block). Best-ever app: fried egg w/ crispy prosciutto and sautéed hen of the woods mushrooms.
Kate Gold: Both the wine bar and resto serve excellent food. Burrata at wine bar. 3-course prix fixe at restaurant. Everyone here will be American, but don’t let that deter you. It’s incredible.
French Restaurant · Plaisance · 22 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: This place only serves beef. Know that they only cook the beef to rare and medium rare. Their frites are supposed to be something special. (Saignant = medium rare)
Bakery · Notre-Dame-des-Champs · 100 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: Bread, gray salt, chocolate croissants, butter cookies and their daily pastry/tart. Gorgeous bread knives (Specify whether you want a right- or left-handed one). Not open on Sundays. Get there early.
Kate Gold: Raspeberry tart. Bread. VARIOUS pastries. If you go to the location in the 7th, you can grab cheese from Fromagerie Quatrehomme right across the street.
Kate Gold: Delicious kouign amann, which is a famous pastry from Brittany (non-chocolate). They make a small version (kouignettes) that are 'self-serve' - super buttery & perfect snack size.
Place Georges Pompidou (Rue Beaubourg), Paris, Île-de-France
Art Museum · Hôtel-de-Ville · 609 tips and reviews
Pierre Valade: view from the top of the museum is one of my favorite! there is also a nice restaurant there. if you enjoy modern art and architecture (you do, right?), then you'll love this place.
French Restaurant · Place Vendôme · 17 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: One of the city’s few small restaurants open on Sunday. traditional bistro dishes, including the pressed duck confit and squab with black truffles
French Restaurant · Saint-Germain-des-Prés · 155 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: breakfast & lunch spot. quiches, omelets and eggs au plat (fried), brouillés(scrambled) and the house specialty, en cocotte (baked).can be customized with bacon, truffles, salmon.
Chocolate Store · Place Vendôme · 57 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: a drinks menu that changes by the hour. At noon, there's hot chocolate with oysters; after 6 p.m., a cold chocolate emulsion with apricot pulp.
109 rue Vieille du Temple (Rue du Perche), Paris, Île-de-France
Creperie · Temple · 260 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From DLebovitz: Terrific crêpes in the middle of bustling Marais. Using organic buckwheat and Bordier butter, wash your meal down w sparkling apple cider or lait ribot – Breton buttermilk. open sunday
Kate Gold: Crêpes up front and pork (Ibaïona) in the rear. Standing room only at Yves Camdeborde’s tapas and wine bar, a hit since it opened in fall of 2009. Go during the off hours. A great neighborhood option
French Restaurant · Val-de-Grâce · 97 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From DLebovitz 10 Things Not to Miss: This is one of my favorites, serving delicious food. Doubling as a wine bar, you pick a wine from the rack on the wall then enjoy your dinner. The menu is fixed
Kate Gold: DLebovitz: Inventive and outstanding cuisine by Braden Perkins that changes. Casual wine bar downstairs (no reservations) that serves light fare, great frites, and an intriguing selection of wines.
36 rue de Grenelle (Rue de la Chaise), Paris, Île-de-France
French Restaurant · Saint Thomas d'Aquin · 21 tips and reviews
Eric Dallemagne: This is Paris's oldest restaurant, opened as an inn in 1680 by the baron de la Chaise at the edge of a hunting preserve. However, I would not recommend going here when you have so many other lovely r
Sandwich Spot · Saint-Germain-des-Prés · 9 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From David Lebovitz: Enjoyable tapas-style bar, more upscale than anything in Spain, with fabulous hams from wild acorn-fed pigs. For dessert, stop at Secco bakery for an almond-scented financier.
Kate Gold: From DLebovitz: Open-faced tartines, or sandwiches, served on pain Poîlane. I am addicted to the sliced chicken with garlic mayonnaise and capers.
Spanish Restaurant · Saint-Germain-des-Prés · 39 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From DLebovitz: fave place to sit for lunch or dinner.best Spanish hams, salads, and olives/wines from France/Italy/Spain. get Pimandes and chocolate-covered sauternes-soaked raisins. bordier butter
41 rue de l'Arbre Sec (Rue Bailleul), Paris, Île-de-France
Wine Bar · Les Halles · 40 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From DLebovitz: This wine bar serves ‘natural’ wines.friendly staff is happy to help with suggestions. Although it gets crowded, if you snag a table, you can order charcuterie/cheese
Market · Notre-Dame-des-Champs · 19 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From DLebovitz: a “regular” market Tues and Fri, organic (and expensive!) on Sun. The fish merchants there are incredible on all days, and I adore the poultry people at the Tuesday and Friday market.
French Restaurant · Rochechouart · 43 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: NYMag: When chef-owner Franck Baranger of impossibly popular bistro Le Pantruche everyone in the quartier hoped they’d get at some of the best modern-bistro cooking in Paris wo booking wks in advance.
French Restaurant · Batignolles · 31 tips and reviews
Kate Gold: From NYMag: Overlooking a beautiful park in the hip Batignolles hood, This duplex bar on ground floor, resto upstairs in a modern building is the best-looking restaurant Paris has seen in a long time
Kate Gold: from nymag: Chef Bertrand Grébaut (Michelin star for Septime), opened this frisky little small-plates seafood bar. catch-of-the-day menu is great, no reservations
Kate Gold: from nymag: chef Daï Shinozuka, worked as sous-chef at Comptoir du Relais, has rebooted an old wine bar.one of the best new modern bistros in P, it’s immediately become industry hangout off-duty cooks
Kate Gold: from nymag: Butcher Hugo Desnoyer supplies top restos in Paris w the best meat.here you can feast at the butcher-block-topped table. Open Tu-Sat, 830-730. seats 8.one of toughest reservations in town.