# Top 10 Restaurants in Paris

The sit-down restaurants that define Paris dining, from a 1896 bouillon serving €20 meals to Michelin-starred neo-bistros that reshaped French cooking. · community starter list

A list of the 8 best restaurants in Paris, including Bouillon Chartier (Grands Boulevards, Paris). No votes cast yet — ordered as entries were added, and voting decides the order from here — last updated Aug 18, 2026.

**Where:** [Third Platz](/.md) / [France](/france.md) / Paris
**Updated:** 2026-08-18 04:26:30

1. **[Bouillon Chartier](/e/654.md)** (restaurant) — Belle Époque bouillon opened in 1896 by the Chartier brothers; a no-reservations, shared-table dining room famous for cheap, classic French fare. — score 0
2. **[Le Comptoir du Relais](/e/655.md)** (restaurant) — Yves Camdeborde's Left Bank bistro, credited with launching the 1990s bistronomy movement; no-reservations lunch and a single nightly dinner sitting. — score 0
3. **[L'Ami Louis](/e/656.md)** (restaurant) — Bistro open since 1924, famed for its wood-fired whole roast chicken and thick slices of foie gras; a fourteen-table institution with a celebrity following. — score 0
4. **[Septime](/e/657.md)** (restaurant) — Bertrand Grébaut's Michelin-starred neo-bistro on rue de Charonne, opened in 2011; vegetable-forward tasting menus that reshaped modern Paris dining. — score 0
5. **[Le Chateaubriand](/e/658.md)** (restaurant) — Iñaki Aizpitarte's Michelin-starred neo-bistro on avenue Parmentier, opened 2006; globally-inflected prix-fixe menus in a stripped-back dining room. — score 0
6. **[Chez L'Ami Jean](/e/659.md)** (restaurant) — Rustic Basque bistro on rue Malar run by chef Stéphane Jégo, known for pig's trotters, roast pigeon and a famously oversized rice pudding for dessert. — score 0
7. **[Frenchie](/e/660.md)** (restaurant) — Chef Grégory Marchand's Michelin-starred bistro on rue du Nil, opened 2009; French cooking with Asian and Italian touches in a tiny brick-walled room. — score 0
8. **[Breizh Café](/e/661.md)** (restaurant) — Breton crêperie on rue Vieille du Temple since 2010, serving buckwheat galettes made with Bordier butter alongside dozens of artisanal ciders. — score 0

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