Restaurants
Where to eat near the museums, city by city: the historic cafés, the brasseries and the grand restaurants, ranked by what their customers say.
Best restaurants in Paris
France, 20 restaurants
14.6
La Tour d'Argent
Grand restaurant, Quai de la Tournelle, facing Notre-Dame
A dining room on the top floor above the Seine, with Notre-Dame in the window and a numbered duck on the plate.
4.6
881 Google ratings
- Opened
- 1582, by its own account
- Nearest museum
- Sainte-Chapelle, 1.0 km
24.5
Le Procope
Historic restaurant, Odéon
The oldest café in Paris, founded in 1686, where Voltaire, Rousseau and Benjamin Franklin talked and the Revolution was plotted. Now a restaurant, in rooms dressed as the eighteenth century.
34.4
Au Pied de Cochon
Brasserie, Les Halles
The brasserie of the old market of Les Halles, famous for onion soup, oysters and the pig's trotter of its name. It was the first in Paris to serve through the night.
44.4
Le Train Bleu
Brasserie, Gare de Lyon
A railway station buffet decorated like a palace: gilding, chandeliers and forty-one paintings of the places the trains went. The most spectacular dining room in Paris.
54.4
Bofinger
Brasserie, Bastille, by Le Marais
The oldest Alsatian brasserie in Paris, under a dome of stained glass, a few minutes from the Place des Vosges. Choucroute and shellfish in an Art Nouveau room.
How the rankings are made
Which restaurants are listed is this site's choice: famous tables with a history, within reach of the museums. Their order is not. It follows each one's overall rating on Google, highest first. No restaurant has paid to be here or to be higher.
This page shows the first 5 of each city. The whole ranking, with how old each restaurant is, how near it is to a museum and a map, is on the city's own page.