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
An Izakaya joint, serving small plates, Japanese beer and cocktails, in the heart of the touristville.
Since 1992, chef Katsuo Nakamura has been impressing Parisians with formidable skill and quiet rigor at this tiny Ile Saint-Louis sushi bar. French critic François Simon recently called it “toujours le meilleur de Paris…”: Still the best of Paris.
Slurp your udon in style at this new branch of the rue Sainte Anne classic, housed in a renovated brasserie. Order noodles, small plates, or bento boxes à la carte, or choose one of the menus, which range from 18€ at lunch to a hefty 70€ at night.
Bento boxes for the bobo set (“benbo”? “boto”? “bobox”?), courtesy of chef Kaori Endo, who is winning raves from the French press for her light and colorful, Japanese-inflected salads, soups, and small plates, as well as a decidedly non-Japanese coffee cream tart.
A favorite address for udon and rice bowls. Reservations are not accepted, so be prepared to queue unless you go early.
This fun and funky sushi bar closed to make room for Rice & Beans, and now has reopened on the same block, serving playful rolls that “pack a technicolor punch”.
Reserve well in advance for a seat at the counter where you, and a handful of other lucky ducks, can watch Kyoto chef Eichi Edakuni prepare a modern Japanese feast before your eyes. The no-choice, 8-10 course menu is 45€, easily augmented with something from the extensive sake list.
In this sleek little space, Toyomitsu Nakayama (the former personal chef to fashion designer Kenzo) plies his trade in an open kitchen, with a style that Patricia Wells calls “not Japanese and not French, but completely his own.”
Issé has changed formats a few times over the years, and now it’s a “bistro à sake”, offering a menu of izakaya — small plates — for grazing while sipping something from the serious selection of sake.
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