We launched a newsletter in 2022 and have already gained around 100k subscribers – readers are hungry for unbiased, independent restaurant reviews. We reserve anonymously, pay full price, and tell you what we really think. We have more than a decade of experience eating in thousands of Paris restaurants, and that experience comes in handy when we’re trying to help you find the right restaurant for the right occasion.
We offer small-group tours led by food & wine experts, delivering some of the best French food you’ve ever tasted in about three hours. We focus on incredible cheese, breads, chocolate and wine. Some tours also load up on pastries or charcuterie. Our tours are designed for adults, and they sell out fast in high-season. Rated the #1 Paris food tour on TripAdvisor for more than a decade.
We offer a variety of walking tours in the most food-centric neighborhoods of Paris, plus the deep diving French Cheese Explosion.
Our group tours are small (8 people max) and led by English-speaking experts. They’re priced at 125€ per person, including generous food & wine tastings.
Click this headline for more detail about our tours and availability, and send an email with any questions to parisbymouthtours@gmail.com
The Marais is beautiful, but there are a lot of dining duds in this historic neighborhood. We visited 21 restaurants in the last 18 months and categorized them all as Great, Good, Fine or Not Recommended. This is a free article in our newsletter. Your subscriptions – nearly 50k and climbing! – enable us to visit anonymous, pay full price, and tell you what we honestly think. We’ve also mapped our favorites (and least favorites) in the Marais, organizing them… Read More »Where to eat in the marais
Do you ever feel overwhelmed when looking at a French wine menu? Our newest offering is designed to give you a fun overview of French wine regions, to help you understand your own preferences, and to set you up for success in navigating a restaurant wine list. We host this experience on Mondays as a happy hour tasting (in English) from 5-7pm. You’ll taste and learn about five different wines from a certified expert. The goal is to help you… Read More »FRENCH WINE DISCOVERY
Our small group tours are genuinely small – only eight guests – and they’re pretty great. But booking a private tour means you can focus on the flavors you’re crazy about and skip what you don’t like. More cheese and less pastry? No problem. Double the chocolate and ditch the charcuterie? Whatever you want! We include wine on every private tour because we finish these private tastings at beautiful wine cellars in the Marais or Saint-Germain. Our private tours are… Read More »Private food tours in paris
If you’ve ever wondered why there are more than 500 different cheeses in France, how different cheeses are produced (what accounts for their texture, color, and smell?), why French cheesemakers use raw unpasteurized milk in their cheese, what the impact of seasonality and aging are on cheese, and how locals typically enjoy cheese in restaurants and at home… this is the tasting for you. We’ll visit a cheese shop (or rather, the cheese shop – our favorite one in the world) to… Read More »The French Cheese Explosion
To assemble this collection, I’ve been trying new places and to returning to old standbys to see how they’re holding up. Everything in this guide has been anonymously tested within the last three years. A few favorites from the previous version of this list have been removed because they didn’t meet that cut-off. I’ll update this guide as I continue to review restaurants in this area. As with our guides to eating in the Marais, the Latin Quarter, and Near the Eiffel Tower, I’ve organized my selections into categories: Newsletter… Read More »Where to eat in Saint-Germain
AVAILABILITY Start by selecting your desired date and the scroll down to the bottom of the calendar to select (+) your number of tickets. After you click “continue” the available tours for all routes will appear on the next page. If you only want to see options for this route, you can click “browse all products” and then click on “South Marais Small Group Tour” and then select your dates and number of tickets. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, send us an email at… Read More »South Marais Food Tour
AVAILABILITY Start by selecting your desired date and the scroll down to the bottom of the calendar to select (+) your number of tickets. After you click “continue” the available tours for all routes will appear on the next page. If you only want to see options for this route, you can click “browse all products” and then click on “North Marais Small Group Tour” and then select your dates and number of tickets. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, send us an email at… Read More »The North Marais Food Tour
AVAILABILITY Start by selecting your desired date and the scroll down to the bottom of the calendar to select (+) your number of tickets. After you click “continue” the available tours for all routes will appear on the next page. If you only want to see options for this route, you can click “browse all products” and then click on “West Saint-Germain Small Group Tour” and then select your dates and number of tickets. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, send us an email at… Read More »West Saint-Germain Food Tour
AVAILABILITY Start by selecting your desired date and the scroll down to the bottom of the calendar to select (+) your number of tickets. After you click “continue” the available tours for all routes will appear on the next page. If you only want to see options for this route, you can click “browse all products” and then click on “East Saint-Germain Small Group Tour” and then select your dates and number of tickets. If you don’t see what you’re… Read More »East Saint-Germain Food Tour
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We have updated our guide to outdoor dining in Paris as an article in our Paris by Mouth newsletter. Click below to find our favorite restaurants with outdoor seating.
In Paris, where restaurants are tiny and can sometimes contain only a handful of tables, dining en masse requires a certain level of strategy. If you’re trying to book dinner for a large group (more than six people) or are planning a special event, we’ve found a selection of restaurants that can welcome a crowd. Here’s our selection of Paris restaurants that are good for groups.
You probably already know that we’ve been organizing the most popular food and wine tours in Paris for more than a decade. But did you know that half our food tours are vegetarian? VEGETARIAN FOOD TOURS IN PARIS Our food and wine tours in East Saint-Germain and the Left Bank include visits to bakeries and dive deeps into French cheese. They include chocolate and plenty of wine. For these tours, we add some extra decadent pâtisserie and skip the charcuterie that features on our… Read More »Vegetarian food tours in Paris
AVAILABILITY Start by selecting your desired date and the scroll down to the bottom of the calendar to select (+) your number of tickets. After you click “continue” the available tours for all routes will appear on the next page. If you only want to see options for this route, you can click “browse all products” and then click on “Left Bank Small Group Tour” and then select your dates and number of tickets. If you don’t see what you’re… Read More »The Left Bank Food Tour
Any guest of our food tours acknowledges that the enjoyment and excitement of travel is derived in part from the inherent risks incurred by travel and activity beyond the accepted safety of life at home or work, and that these inherent risks contribute to such enjoyment and excitement, and are reasons for my voluntary participation. Therefore, the guest acknowledges that they are aware of the inherent hazards and risks associated with participating in a Big Mouth, LLC d/b/a Paris by… Read More »Terms & Conditions for Paris by Mouth Food Tours
Alexander Lobrano is the Consulting Features Editor for Paris by Mouth. Alec was European Correspondent for Gourmet magazine from 1999 until it closed in 2009, and has written about food and travel for Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Travel & Leisure, Departures, Conde Nast Traveler, and many other publications in the United States and the United Kingdom since he moved to Paris in 1986. He is a contributing editor at Saveur magazine and a regular contributor to the New York Times,… Read More »Alexander Lobrano
Camille Malmquist is a pastry chef who has worked in restaurants, bakeries, and pastry shops both in Paris and the United States. She has written for Secrets of Paris and Girls’ Guide to Paris, and wrote the dessert and bun recipes for Hamburger Gourmet (Marabout, 2012). A native of the Pacific Northwest, Camille has been a fan of craft beer since before she could afford to drink it. She’s been seeking out good beer in France since her arrival in 2008,… Read More »Camille Malmquist
Meg Zimbeck is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Paris by Mouth. Beyond the content on this site, she writes about food in Paris for the Wall Street Journal. In the past, she has served as the Paris editor for both Budget Travel and BlackBook and has contributed to Food & Wine, SAVEUR, AFAR, Gridskipper, the BBC’s Olive magazine, and the seat-pocket magazines of United, Virgin Trains, and Gulf Air. She also hosted a program on Paris Street Eats for the Travel Channel (USA). Meg’s food photography has been… Read More »Meg Zimbeck