13 editor picks in Paris.
13 splurge places in Paris, editor-picked. tasting menus and the full big-night-out treatment in Paris. All Paris food.
Alain Passard's Arpège has cooked vegetable-first three-Michelin-star menus in Paris since 1986. The kitchen pulls produce daily from three estate gardens.
OrderThe full vegetable tasting menu; the chef's signature tomato confit dessert.
TipLunch at €175 lands a fraction of the cost of dinner and uses the same kitchen line.
Table Bruno Verjus in Paris's 12e cooks ingredient-first: produce sourced by name, fish breathing that morning, no dish served twice in a row.
OrderThe 7-course tasting menu and a pairing of growers' wines.
TipTwo Michelin stars and number 8 on The World's 50 Best 2025. Book eight weeks out for dinner, four for lunch.
Arnaud Faye's Épicure inside Le Bristol Paris keeps a three-star classical French line: truffled macaroni, Bresse poularde poached in a bladder for two.
OrderThe truffled macaroni in winter; the bladder-poached Bresse chicken for two.
TipSunday lunch in the garden is the seating most locals book for a celebration.
Arnaud Donckele's Plénitude in Paris cooks sauce-first inside Cheval Blanc on the Seine. Three Michelin stars since the room opened in 2021.
OrderThe seven-course tasting; ask for the langoustine course early in the order.
TipThe Sunday dinner is the easiest seating, with the same kitchen and a calmer floor.
Guy Savoy's Restaurant Guy Savoy in Paris cooks inside the Monnaie mint on the Seine. The artichoke and truffle soup has been on the carte since 1980.
OrderThe artichoke and black truffle soup with brioche, on the carte since 1980.
TipLunch at €230 is the cheapest way into the three-star room. Book eight weeks ahead.
Kei Kobayashi's Restaurant KEI in Paris was the first restaurant cooked by a Japanese chef in France to hold three Michelin stars, awarded in 2020.
OrderThe garden vegetable composition starter; the sea bream main course.
TipThe eight-week lead time is real. Set a phone reminder for the day bookings open.
Andrea Capasso's Le Clarence in Paris cooks game- and shellfish-forward tasting menus inside a Domaine Clarence Dillon townhouse on the Champs-Élysées.
OrderWhatever game appears in winter; the chef's lobster course year-round.
TipTwo seatings at lunch and dinner. Pelé works the floor; ask the maître d' to flag him.
Yannick Alléno's Alléno Paris in the Pavillon Ledoyen built its three-star case on cryoconcentrated sauces, the chef's twenty-year research project.
OrderWhatever aged-beef course is on the carte, with its accompanying cryo sauce.
TipIf the main room is booked, the Pavillon Ledoyen complex holds three Alléno restaurants.
Christian Le Squer's Le Cinq at the Four Seasons George V in Paris keeps three Michelin stars on a classical line built around lobster, caviar and butter.
OrderThe caviar-stuffed spaghetti; the Brittany lobster cooked in seaweed butter.
TipLunch sets at €175 are the most under-priced way into a three-star palace room.
Pavyllon in Paris is Yannick Alléno's counter-seating two-star: 36 seats in a circle, a la carte for a fraction of what the main Ledoyen room costs.
OrderWhatever caviar course is on the counter menu; the chef's classical egg.
TipSeats at the counter are easier than a table; book a 12:30 lunch over a 20:00 dinner.
Stéphanie Le Quellec's La Scène in Paris cooks open-kitchen on the 8e: a long copper bar fronting a 12-seat dining room, two Michelin stars since 2020.
OrderThe lobster ravioli course; the wagyu main with seasonal vegetables.
TipEight bar stools front the open kitchen; ask for those rather than the back tables.
Akrame Benallal's Akrame in Paris cooks an Algerian-French tasting menu that earned the 8e room two Michelin stars in 2015 and a regular table.
OrderThe whole tasting menu; the chef rotates a lamb course in winter months.
TipThe shorter weekday lunch at €70 is the cheapest two-Michelin-star meal in central Paris.
Two centuries of dining-room history at Le Grand Véfour, the Palais-Royal mirror-and-velvet salon where Paris cooked dinner for Napoleon, Colette and Cocteau.
OrderThe ravioles de foie gras at the chef's prix-fixe lunch.
TipTuesday-Friday lunch is a third the price of dinner and books two weeks out, not four months.
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