List of Favorite Paris Restaurants!

By November 4, 2011Posts

Sharing a few of our favorite restaurants, cafes, brasseries….

RESTAURANTS:

Café Charbon, 109 rue Oberkampf, 11e – working class
quartier

Great Jazz – Le Bilboquet; Cabaret at Au Lapin Agile; Great
Mexican food – La Perla Bar at 26 rue Francois Miron in the 4e; Sit in Le Totem
(across from Eiffel) for a nice view rather than Jules Verne; La Tour D’Argent
– splurge; Les Deux Magots OR Cafe de Flore for breakfast OR Ma Bourgogne in
Place Vsoges for lunch too; Outdoor artists cafe in 6e – La Palette at 43, rue
de Seine; Chez Georges (1 rue du Mail)**; café La Palette, Café Marly OR Cafe
de la Paix at Place de l’Opera; Le Train Bleu – fanciest restaurant in a train
station – Gare de Lyon; Chez Plumeau; Bon 2; Le Grand Vefour (1784) during
French Revolution; Taillevent; L’Arpege; L’Ami Louis; Le Voltaire en hiver;
Brasserie Lipp OR Brasserie Balzar , 49 rue des Ecoles in the 5th near the
Sorbonne OR Le Coupe Chou 11 rue de Lanneau OR La Chope, Place de la
Contrescarpe, 5e; favorite lunch spot – Closerie des Lilas near Luxembourg OR
Hotel Butetia Brasserie on blvd. Raspail in the 6th near the Bon Marche OR Cafe
Parisien at 15, rue D’Assas in 6e; Julien brasserie at 16, rue Faubourg Saint
Denis in 10e (stainless glass ceilings and art nouveau murals); Le Procope;
Alcazar – hip/trendy; Restaurant Le Voltaire on quai voltaire near the Louvre;
Benoit on rue St. Martin**; La Coupole on blvd Montparnesse; Boeuf Sur Le Toit
on rue du Colisee; La Petite Cour outside cafe on rue Mabillon; Les Bookinistes
on Quai des Grands Augustins; La Bastide Odeon on rue Corneille; Le Flore en
l’Ile at 42, quai d’Orleans – Ile Saint Louis; Paul Chene Restaurant rue
Lauriston; Noura on rue Marceau OR Restaurant Phoenicia on rue le Marois –
great lebanese food in lower 16th;  La
Jacobine tea stop on rue st. andre des Arts; Restaurant Paul at 52, Quai des
Orfevres in the 1st;

BRASSERIE:

Brasserie Bofinger at 5&7, rue de la Bastille, 4e

CAFES:

Mariage Freres in 4e

BOULANGERIES:

Patisserie Vialard at 14, rue Monge, 5e (old front with tea
room)

Stohrer at 51, rue Montorgueil, 2e (started in 1730)

16e:  Beurre et Cacao
at 35, rue de l’Annonciation; Patissieries – Poujauran on rue Jean-Nicot, old
bakery near the Tour Eiffel (check out wall murals), Laduree for macoroons,
Dalloyau, Angelina’s for tea, Poilane’s famous bread – go downstairs and see
the ancient wood-burning stove, meet the baker; Bugat, Brocco, Paumier, Cador,
Mulot; Chez Carette (le Bibesco, a must); quaint lunch spot at Place due Marche
Sainte Catheine in the 4th arr. – Le Bistrot de la Place; coffee at Cafe de la
Mairie facing St. Sulpice – great people watching; Traditional Parisian Bistros
– Chez Catherine, 65 rue de Provence, 9th; L’Ardoise at 28 rue du Mont-Thabor
1st; *L’Affriole at 17 rue Malar, 7th; L’Avant Gout, 26 rue Bobillot, 13th;
L’Os a Moelle, 3 rue Vasco-de-Gama, 15th; La Regalade, 49 ave. Jean-Moulin,
14th; La Tour de Passy 16e – Chinese food OR Al Sahara on Ave. de Versailles in
16e during MBA; Le Lutetia at 33, quai de Bourbon in 4e Ile St. Louis; great
crepes in Jardin Des Tuileries at Chalet de Diane OR Creperie des Arts on 27,
rue St. Andre des Arts; L’Absinthe at 24 Pl du Marche St. Honore in 1e;
Restaurant Le Petit St. Benoit in 6e;

WINE BARS:

L’Ecluse OR Willi’s Wine Bar;