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49 curated places across Paris.
Berthillon
4th — Île Saint-Louis · €
Salted caramel and pistachio. Go to a side café that serves it.
Boot Café
3rd — Le Marais · €€
Three tables. Best Parisian alley.
Breizh Café (Marais)
3rd — Le Marais · €€
Buckwheat galettes done by people who actually grew up making them.
Buvette Pigalle
9th — South Pigalle · €€€
Tiny, candle-lit, the croque-madame is the move.
Café Méricourt
11th — République · €€
Wide marble tables, oat lattes, and one of the few cafés in the 11th built for laptops.
Candelaria
3rd — Le Marais · €€€
A taqueria in front, one of Paris's best speakeasies behind a hidden door.
Clamato
11th — Charonne · €€€
Natural wine and a half-dozen oysters at the bar.
Du Pain et des Idées
10th — Canal Saint-Martin · €
The escargot pistache-chocolat is worth crossing the city for.
Église Saint-Eustache
1st — Les Halles · €
The most underrated Gothic church in Paris.
Fondation Louis Vuitton
16th — Bois de Boulogne · €€€
Frank Gehry sails over the Bois de Boulogne. The art is the bonus.
Frenchie
2nd — Sentier · €€€€
Greg Marchand's tasting menu in a Sentier alley.
Harry's New York Bar
2nd — Opéra · €€€
1911. The Bloody Mary was invented here. Order one.
Holybelly 19
10th — Canal Saint-Martin · €€
The brunch the 10th built itself around.
Île Saint-Louis loop
4th — Île Saint-Louis · €
30 minutes around an island that hasn't changed since the 1700s.
Jardin des Tuileries
1st — Tuileries · €
Between the Louvre and Place de la Concorde — 28 hectares of bench-and-tree.
Jardin du Luxembourg
6th — Saint-Germain · €
Sit in a green metal chair near the fountain. That's the activity.
Jardin du Palais Royal
1st — Palais Royal · €
The black-and-white striped columns. The arcades. The quiet.
L'As du Fallafel
4th — Le Marais · €
The falafel that still earns the queue.
Ladurée Rue Royale
8th — Madeleine · €€
Macarons in pistachio, rose, salted caramel. Skip the Champs-Élysées branch.
Lavomatic
10th — République · €€€
A cocktail bar disguised as a laundromat.
Le Baron Rouge
12th — Aligre · €€
Wine straight from the barrel. Bring your own bottle on Sundays.
Le Bistrot Paul Bert
11th — Charonne · €€€
The best steak frites in Paris, dimly lit, no nonsense.
Le Comptoir du Relais
6th — Saint-Germain · €€€
Yves Camdeborde's bistro — lunch is the only realistic time.
Le Consulat
18th — Montmartre · €€€
The most-photographed café corner in Paris. Go for the building, not the food.
Le Dôme
14th — Montparnasse · €€€€
Old-school Montparnasse brasserie — go for the fish, not the photos.
Le Mary Celeste
3rd — Le Marais · €€€
Cocktails that taste like a chef made them, oysters always.
Le Perchoir Marais
4th — Marais · €€€
Rooftop bar above BHV — go for the sunset, not the food.
Le Petit Grain
11th — Voltaire · €
Empty between 10 and noon. Best banana bread in the arrondissement.
Le Procope
6th — Odéon · €€€
1686. Voltaire ate here. So did Robespierre.
Louvre
1st — Louvre · €€
Buy your timed-entry ticket online and enter through the Carrousel.
Marché d'Aligre
12th — Aligre · €
The most lived-in market in Paris.
Marché des Enfants Rouges
3rd — Le Marais · €€
Paris's oldest covered market — eat your way through it.
Merci
3rd — Le Marais · €€€
Concept store with a café in a vintage Fiat.
Miznon
4th — Marais · €€
Israeli pita stuffed with whatever's roasted that day.
Musée d'Orsay
7th — Saint-Germain · €€
Impressionists on the 5th floor — go straight up.
Musée du Parfum Fragonard
9th — Opéra · €
Free, 30 minutes, and you'll smell like Provence after.
Musée Picasso
3rd — Le Marais · €€
An hour and a half is enough; the Hôtel Salé itself is half the show.
Musée Rodin
7th — Invalides · €€
The garden is the museum.
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont
19th — Buttes-Chaumont · €
The most dramatic park in Paris — cliffs, a temple, a suspension bridge.
Père Lachaise
20th — Père Lachaise · €
Bring a paper map. The official one is a riddle.
Pont Alexandre III
8th — Invalides · €
The most beautiful bridge in Paris.
Promenade Plantée
12th — Bastille · €
An elevated walkway with rose tunnels — Paris's quieter answer to the High Line.
Rue Crémieux
12th — Bastille · €
Pastel-painted houses on a 144-meter street.
Sacré-Cœur
18th — Montmartre · €
Skip the crowd. Go up the back stairs from Rue Lamarck.
Sainte-Chapelle
1st — Île de la Cité · €€
The stained glass on a sunny morning is unmatched in Paris.
Septime
11th — Charonne · €€€€
Bertrand Grébaut's seasonal tasting menu — book a month out.
Shakespeare and Company
5th — Latin Quarter · €
Buy one book, leave with three. Stamp the title page upstairs.
Ten Belles
10th — Canal Saint-Martin · €€
The Anglo coffee corner of the 10th.
Trocadéro
16th — Trocadéro · €
The Eiffel Tower postcard angle — at sunrise, not sunset.