Address: 56 Passage des Panoramas, 75002
Nearest transport: Grands Boulevards (8, 9)
Hours: Dinner Mon-Sat (closed Sun)
Reservations: not accepted
Telephone: 01 44 82 00 62
Average price for dinner: €10-19
Style of cuisine: Japanese
If you think food tastes better in a beautiful room, then you’ll love Le Mini Palais, where refined and playful cooking meets high design in a Paris landmark setting.Eric Fréchon of the Bristol is the consulting chef, present in spirit only, and the menu is as cosmopolitan as the crowd. Book a table on the terrace when weather permits. Open every day, all day.
It’s all bo bun all the time at this airy annex to the heavily trafficked Le Cambodge.
Yves Camdeborde’s beloved bistro, once neo and now classic. Book months in advance for weeknight, no-choice dinner, or just queue up at lunch or weekends for the so-called “brasserie menu”, a free-for-all that can feel a bit like a tourist zoo at times. At worst, it’s sloppy and hectic. At best, it’s delicious.
This little Italian épicerie-à-manger, run by the former sommelier at ‘Rino, has four tables — two in and two out — where you can eat surrounded by exquisite spices, olive oils, stacks of wine, and a touch of flea market nostalgia.Open from 10 am to 11 pm every day but Sunday, when they close at 2 pm, and Monday, with an 8:30 pm closure.
The vegetarian Tamil cooking at Krishna Bhavan is generous, aromatic, colorful, and cheap. Get the thaali – a sampler of dals and stews served with rice — and wash it down with a mango lassi: There’s no beer here.Open every day from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The latest addition to the city’s burgeoning boutique coffee scene, Coutume isn’t kidding around. Beans are roasted on the premises and brewed according to your preference: Pulled on a sports car of an espresso machine, siphoned through an apparatus that looks stolen from a lab, dripped through a cone filter, or 24 hour cold drip (geek alert!). There are excellent teas, too, and a lunch menu offers fresh salads and sandwiches. If the coffee hasn’t made you hyper enough, there is a selection of pastries from Pâtisserie de Rêves.
Laurence Mahéo – a fashion designer – took over the family oyster business a few years ago, and her Gavrinis have been served at some of the city’s top tables. Now she has a table of her own, offering not only her famous bivalves, but a wide array of fruits de mer, some raw and some delicately cooked (with a light Japanese touch) in an airy blue and white room that will take you from Batignolles to the Brittany coast.
This slick little dinette offers pho, bo bun and other Vietnamese favorites. The 13.50€ menu includes a main course and either a dessert or a glass of wine. Closed weekends.
Squeeze into this tiny butcher shop for lunch and watch owner Michel Kalifa in action.
Does Candelaria serve the best tacos “this side of Jaurez“? No sabemos, but they are certainly among the best in Paris, a statement which, until the recent wave of Mexican openings (see for example El Nopal and Rice & Beans), didn’t meant much.
Once upon a time, Olivier Magny ran wine tastings and classes out of his own apartment. Now he’s opened a vast, slick wine bar near Les Halles with a list of about 500 bottles and 40 glass pours.
With Marcel comes another brunch spot with an Anglo accent, in this case both British (porridge, scones, an English breakfast) and American (fluffy blueberry pancakes, a BLT). They get it right, though, and that, plus a cool space on one of the prettiest corners on Montmartre, has made Marcel an instant hit with the locals who fill the place on the weekends, kids in tow.
If you really want to lunch as the locals do, visit this old fashioned Auvergnate casse-croute. Queue at the window for one of their legendary sandwiches, or fight your way, elbows out, into a table for a plate meaty grub and a glass of rustic wine. Bad if you’re watching your diet, good if your watching your budget.
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