To dine in Place de la Concorde at the Hôtel Crillon gives one a taste of how the other half lives. You would have to search far and wide to find a more luxurious dining room. The welcome and the service are worthy of a Michelin star. Shame about the misprints on the menu, one does expect excellence in all areas, including spelling. Young chef Christopher Hache took over from Jean-François Piège in 2010 h ...

Dear readers, may I have your attention, here is Jordan Bischoff, a young chef who will go far and in a restaurant which will soon be booked up three months in advance!  Everything here is perfect: the menu is clear, the food is refined and intelligently designed, plus the setting is exceptional. This boutique hotel is in fact one of the jewels of the Butte Montmartre, with its garden where a few tables are ...

Behind the famous and gleaming Fouquet’s brasserie is hidden the elegant Diane, the rather fine restaurant at Hotel Fouquet’s Barrière.  The ambience in this restaurant, recently awarded a Michelin star, is muted and confidential.  Outside there is an intimate terrace insulated from the noise of the Champs Elysées.  We’ve been dreaming about a place like this. The menu is fresh and follows the seasons.  The ...

The heart of this historic building which beats to the quiet rhythm of the l’île de la Jatte is presided over by talented chef Giovanni Perrone.  This former costume store for the Opéra de Paris has been transformed into an Italian brasserie which is a cross between a cabaret and a conservatory opening onto a sunny terrace.  The kitchen too is spacious and infused with the sunshine tastes of Puglia, r ...

Installed in the former chapel of Le Mont-de-Piété, Le Dôme du Marais is an institution.  It had become a little tired but has recently been given a new lease of life with a new chef, formerly  at Costes, in charge of the kitchen. The lovely old skylight is still there but the décor is all new, basically black and white, like a modern boudoir. The appetizers would delight any gourmet, offering an assortment ...

  This type of place often goes wrong because of bad positioning, badly thought out menus, poor service, the whole concept and place in general. Nothing could be further from the truth at Un dimanche à Paris. Everything here has been well thought through, from the décor to the plates via the front of house, this a brilliant concept. Unlike a lot of places in the 6th arrondissement it is spacious and split i ...

  This restaurant has a retractable roof and the dining room is dotted with orchids and trees, producing an elegant light-filled effect. The great idea is to have divided the restaurant into two parts: a bistro and a gastronomic restaurant… Here, on the gastronomic side, the ingredients take precedence, particularly the foie gras (a speciality of the house) with honey or Sauterne, in a carpaccio with three ...

Big old hotels, they’re lovely but a bit old fashioned, a bit past their best. Here at the Royal Monceau that couldn’t be further from the truth: as you enter the lobby which also the bar, there’s good music playing and offbeat Starck interior design! La Cuisine’s dining room is huge and you are immediately struck by the height of the ceiling and the incredible size of light fittings suspended from it! Ther ...

Situated on the Champs-Elysées, surrounded by greenery, Café Lenôtre has a big terrace for the summer (noise is bearable because it’s not so close to the street). Although it’s been established for more than a century this restaurant is neither well known nor well used by Parisians, but the food is good, the setting is pleasant and comfortable and the service is generally good. The menu includes classics li ...

The first time you eat at Bon, you are impressed by the size of the restaurant and the maze of rooms and little corners, the décor too is impressive, eclectic, joyful, offbeat and luxurious at the same time! Another triumph for Starck. The menu is Asian and particularly Thai inspired, with spring rolls, beef salads, nems, crispy duck … The crab, coconut and asparagus soup starter is both magnificent and exc ...

The frontage is beautiful – thick glass with a stylish logo (the « e » made to look like a dish or a bell). You enter and amazingly you can take in the whole restaurant in a glance: it’s just 38 square metres, including the kitchen at the end of the table. So, there’s a very long central table and 3 small tables for two on the side: that’s it! Luckily for them they are often fully booked two weeks ahead…You ...

The Blue Elephant’s enclave is impressive, with plants and saplings in a tropical atmosphere. Moreover, here we are about to taste the good Thai cuisine. First, we will be welcome by big smiles from the staff, originally from the Siam Kingdom, and afterwards installed in the main room or the mezzanine, in the middle of the vegetation: really authentic! We will eat good prawn bites, or chicken tidbits ...

With a setting as impressive as it can be, mystic and luxurious, signed by Patrick Join, Oth Sombath is the Thai restaurant of the eponymous chef, a longtime collaborator of the Blue Elephant group. Here, we don’t find Thai street-food, but rather that which the kings eat, and everything is as nice as refined when presented. Dishes are no more spicy than what Westerners like. We recommend you the curr ...

What a majestic place! With its canopy, chandeliers, trees and balconies, ‘la Bauhinia’ makes you travel in time and space. Here, we could think we are in a Maharaja palace, a colonial residence or a Chinese mansion. The menu is astoundingly long and varied, perhaps a little disconcerting at the beginning but quite pleasing at the end. There is a lot of work behind each dish and each snack. We r ...