If there’s one city in the world that people ask the BA editors for help navigating, it’s Paris. (Sorry, New York.) We’re thrilled to be able to offer our insider list to the best of the world’s most delicious city, a place where classic bistros, kitchen shops, and chocolatiers are just as exciting to discover as the best new natural wine bars in the chicest arrondissement (currently the 11th, by the way). Bon, um, appétit!
Paris
Photo by Adrianna Glaviano
The Hit List
Restaurants, Bars, and More
Du Pain et des Idées
For the bread-obsessed world traveler.
L’Arpège
Into vegetables? 400 euros worth?
Ritz Paris
The French know fancy when it comes to hotels
Jacques Genin
Haut chocolat in the Marais
Hôtel Particulier Montmartre
Your own private house party
Astier de Villatte
Get the pied-à-terre look
L’Avant Comptoir
Fast, casual, perfect in the 6th
Papillon
Why try to be cool when you can just be really, really good?
E. Dehillerin
The kind of kitchen store you see in movies (like, ones with Julia Child in them)
Sébastien Gaudard
Pastry’s next wave in SoPi
Clown Bar
Belle epoque beauty meets thoroughly modern cooking
Dersou
Cocktails with every course? Pourquoi pas…
Le Voltaire
See and be scenic at this classic brasserie.
Le Chateaubriand / Le Dauphin
The restaurant(s) that made the 11th arrondisement the place to be
Vanves Flea Market
Small is beautiful (when it comes to flea markets)
Barthélemy
The biggest cheese in Paris
Septime
World-famous—without the tiring bells and whistles
Vivant
Looks like a great bar, tastes like a great restaurant
Le Grand Pigalle Hotel
A better boutique hotel
La Grande Épicerie de Paris
Your one-stop food-shopping freak-out
Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse
One-stop chocolat shopping
Le Servan
Cherchez la femme at this all-day superstar
Le Verre Volé
The OG natural wine bar that’s also seriously about the food
G. Detou
The pastry pantry for experts and novices alike
Ten Belles Bread
Bread and coffee and coffee and bread
Télescope
Third-wave coffee right near the Louvre
Breizh Café
Crepes yourself (sorry!) in the Marais
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