Paris Restaurants

L'Arpège

L'Arpège is a restaurant in Paris, France. The chef is Alain Passard. It was previously known as L'Archestrate, owned by his former mentor Alain Senderens from whom he bought it in 1986.

It earned one star in the Michelin Guide in its first year and one more to earn two. It earned three stars in 1996 which it has maintained.

The restaurant was voted 46th best in the world in Restaurant (magazine) Top 50 in 2008.
L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon

L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon is the name of six French gourmet restaurants, located in Paris, Tokyo, New York, Las Vegas, London, and Hong Kong. Owned by chef Joël Robuchon, the restaurants serve his French haute cuisine in a stylized environment. Many of the seats are arranged to overlook the meal preparation in the kitchen.

Robuchon's signature dishes include a cauliflower cream with caviar and potato puree, "Pommes Puree Truffee" truffled mashed potatoes, and his "La Caille Farcie de Foie Gras et Caramelisee", free-range quail stuffed with foie gras.

In 2008, the restaurant was voted 14th best in the world in Restaurant magazine's Top 50.
Café Procope

Café Procope, in rue de l'Ancienne Comédie, 6th arrondissement, is one of the oldest restaurants of Paris. It was opened in 1686 by the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, with a slyly subversive name adopted from the historian Procopius, whose Secret History, the Anekdota, long known of, had been discovered in the Vatican Library and published for the first time ever in 1623: it told the scandals of Emperor Justinian, his ex-dancer Empress, and his court.
Café de Flore

The Café de Flore, at the corner of the Boulevard Saint-Germain and the Rue St. Benoit, in the VIe arrondissement of Paris, has long been celebrated for its intellectual clientele.

The classic Art Deco interior of all red seating, mahogany and mirrors has changed little since World War II. Like its main rival, Les Deux Magots, it has hosted most of the French intellectuals during the post-war years. It is said that Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir would meet here and discuss their philosophy of existentialism over a drink.

It was seen in the TV special Garfield's Feline Fantasies as Cafe DuFleur.

The Prix de Flore, a literary prize inaugurated by Frédéric Beigbeder in 1994, is awarded annually at the Café de Flore.
Café de la Paix

Café de la Paix is a famous café in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of Paris Opéra (located across the plaza). Legend has it that if one sits at the café, one is bound to run into a friend or acquaintance as the bar is so well-known and popular.
Dalloyau

Dalloyau is a Paris-based food company whose history goes back to 1682 and the Versailles Court. Dalloyau is a family-owned and independent business, Nadine Gavillon-Bernardé is the current president since 1993. The company is member of the "Comité Colbert" since 2001. Dalloyau opened its first shop abroad in 1982 in Tokyo. In 2009, Dalloyau has 31 shops.
Les Deux Magots

Les Deux Magots is a famous café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés area of Paris, France. It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual élite of the city. This derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus and Pablo Picasso. It is featured in the 1973 film The Mother and the Whore directed by Jean Eustache and also in the 1959 film The Sign of Leo by Eric Rohmer.

The Deux Magots literary prize has been awarded to a French novel every year since 1933.

The café's name comes from the two wooden statues of Chinese commercial agents (magots) that adorn one of the pillars.
Guy Savoy

Guy Savoy is a French chef, and is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris and sister restaurant in Las Vegas.

The Paris restaurant has garnered the 3 Michelin stars, being elevated in 2002. The restaurant has been ranked multiple times in the Restaurant Magazine Top 50 Restaurants in the world. The Las Vegas restaurant garnered the 2 Michelin stars, the AAA Five Diamond Award, and the Mobil Five Star Award. It is the only Guy Savoy restaurant outside of Paris.
Maxim's Paris

Maxim's is the name of a restaurant in Paris, France, located on the rue Royale. It is known for its art nouveau interior decor.
Polidor

The Crémerie-Restaurant Polidor is a historic restaurant in the 6th Arrondissement of Paris. Its predecessor was founded in 1845, and it has had its present name since the beginning of the 20th century. The interior of the restaurant is basically unchanged for over 100 years, and the style of cooking remains that of the late 19th century. The Polidor is located at 41, rue Monsieur-le-Prince in the Odéon area, near the Jardin du Luxembourg. Its name derives from the cream desserts it served in former decades. Most diners sit at long, shared tables, with communal saltcellars and pots of mustard. Its bathroom, unchanged for decades, has been described as "legendary."

In addition to its decor and cuisine, the Polidor is best known for its illustrious clientele. It is said to have been a favourite of André Gide's, as well as hosting James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Antonin Artaud, and Jack Kerouac. It is also known for being the meeting place for the Collège de ’Pataphysique, and its principals, French writers Luc Étienne and Raymond Queneau.

The Polidor remains one of the most popular restaurants on the Left Bank, particularly among students at the nearby University of Paris (Sorbonne) and Collège de France.
Taillevent

Taillevent is the name of a restaurant in Paris, founded in 1946 by André Vrinat.

The restaurant was named in a tribute to Guillaume Tirel, called Taillevent, a cook in the 14th century known to have written the first cuisine book in French, Le Viandier, ordered by Charles V of France "the wise".
Tour d'Argent

La Tour d'Argent (The Silver Tower or Tower of Money) is a restaurant in Paris France that claims to date from 1582. It bases its claim to be over 400 years old on the existence of an inn on the Quai de la Tournelle, said to have been frequented by Henri IV.

Duck, especially the pressed duck, is the specialty (Caneton Tour d'Argent). The Tour has its own farm on which it raises its ducks. Diners ordering the duck receive a postcard with the serial number of the duck. The restaurant also has a wine cellar containing more than half a million bottles of wine, costing many millions of dollars. The wine cellar has to be guarded 24/7. The dining room features an excellent view of the river Seine and Notre Dame.

The restaurant is currently owned and operated by the Terrail family. André Terrail is owner and manager, having taken over from his father Claude who died on June 1, 2006, at the age of 88. Claude Terrail had been running the restaurant since inheriting it from his own father in 1947. It has during recent years dropped from its 3-starred top position in the arbiter of fine dining, the Guide Michelin, to 2 stars in 1996, and to a more modest one star in 2006.

The restaurant served as inspiration for scenes in the Pixar movie Ratatouille, and has received an "unexpected boost" from the film.