The Top 100 Places to Eat Near Trois B
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Rank 2. Pains Paris
Bakery
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Rank 4. Briquet
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 5. Le Petit Rhin
French
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Rank 6. Parpains
Natural fermentation Bakery
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Rank 7. Lao Siam
Thai
The Souksavanh brothers have been running this Thai-Lao neighborhood restaurant on the Belleville strip long enough that a table here is a minor victory. The room fills fast with regulars who already know the crying tiger and the Lao crispy rice salad by heart. Everything is made in-house, the menu moves between two cuisines without apology, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand keeps the secret poorly. Overflow goes next door to their sister spot, Ama Siam.
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Rank 8. Bulle
Bakery
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Rank 9. Soces
Seafood
The name is Parisian slang for friends you share a meal with, which tells you everything about the spirit of this modern brasserie in the 19th. Choice cuts and seafood arrive at the table to be divvied up, not plated with architectural ambition. The team previously cooked and poured at Clamato and the Ritz bar respectively, a combination that sounds like a joke and turns out to be a very good idea.
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The red facade stands out on a street in the 19th that's been quietly gentrifying for years. Inside, it's polished concrete and bare walls, with an open kitchen where an Australian chef of Philippine origins folds French technique into Chinese flavors, and somehow the seams don't show. The room fills with the kind of Parisians who found the neighborhood before you did, which is fine, because the food is the reason to make the trip anyway.
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A converted shoe factory in the 11th, with exposed brick and the kind of lighting that makes everyone look like they know what they're doing. Le Café de l'Usine runs all day as a café and bistro, shifting from coffee to a tight tasting menu come evening. Lunch pulls from the same kitchen with a shorter format. The cooking is precise and unfussy, each dish built around one quietly confident flourish.
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Rank 15. Gilou
British
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A sociable counter, exposed stone walls, and shelves of bottles set the tone at this contemporary bistro near Gare de l'Est. The chef's cooking is Japanese-inflected French, precise without being precious, and the floor team pairs each course with organic and biodynamic wines chosen with genuine care. Lunch is an easy entry point, but the room rewards a longer evening.
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Rank 17. Osteria Paradiso
Italian
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Rank 18. Chi’s Vietfood
Vietnamese
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Rank 19. La Cave à Michel
French
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Rank 20. Buttes Snack Bar
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 22. Amulette
Coffee
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Rank 23. Amâlia
Modern French New American
Tablecloths and stylish service set Amâlia apart from its neighbors in the 11th, where the dining room leans toward a quieter kind of elegance. The Italian couple behind it, she on pastry and he on the stove, work modern French cooking with precise acidic notes and the occasional Italian nudge. A Michelin star keeps company with that conviction. Fine dining, and dressed accordingly.
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Rank 24. Glaster
Dessert
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Rank 27. Chez Michel
French
A Japanese chef running a classic Parisian bistro near the Gare du Nord sounds like a premise, but the food explains everything. Seafood anchors the menu alongside roast foie gras and seasonal game, and the cooking lands with the kind of quiet precision you'd expect from someone who trained with Camdeborde. The room is warm, the tradition is intact, and the crowd treats it like a neighborhood secret they'd rather you didn't know about.
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Rank 28. JJ Hings
New Zealand Dessert
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Rank 29. Deux Gares Express
Coffee
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Rank 30. Café Les Deux Gares
Bistro French
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Rank 31. Alluma
Israeli Mediterranean
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Rank 32. Supra
Georgian Wine Bar
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Rank 33. La Cale
Natural Wine Bar
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A former Le Bristol and Le Taillevent sommelier opened this neo-bistro on a quiet 11th arrondissement street, which probably explains why the wine list runs to over three thousand bottles. The cooking leans fine dining, with careful sourcing and considered plating, but the room keeps things relaxed enough that nobody feels underdressed. A name worth knowing for a long, unhurried evening.
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Rank 38. Chez Babo
Wine Bar
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Rank 41. Le Grand Bol
Chinese
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Rank 46. Sain
Bakery
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Rank 47. Dante
French
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Rank 49. La Combine
Dessert
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Rank 50. Dilia
Italian
A country-house-feeling Italian restaurant in the 20th, opposite Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix, where a Tuscan chef with stints at Saturne and Thoumieux cooks the kind of quietly personal food that names itself after grandparents. The pasta is made the old way, the wine list pulls from both sides of the Alps, and the room stays small enough that the manager-sommelier knows what's in your glass.
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Rank 51. Comptoir Sur Mer
Seafood
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Rank 52. Le Chateaubriand
French
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Rank 54. Candle Kids
Coffee
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Rank 56. Rond
Breton French
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Rank 57. Chez Marius
French
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Rank 58. Taxiphone
Coffee
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Geosmin is the word for that petrichor smell of rain hitting dry earth, which tells you something about what the chef is going for. This Oberkampf tasting-menu restaurant holds a Michelin star and occupies a two-floor townhouse with the slightly worn, effortlessly cool feel of the 11th. Dishes are seasonal and stripped back, the kind of cooking where restraint does the work. The wine list leans natural and biodynamic, with strong Italian and Austrian labels alongside.
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Rank 60. Trâm 130
Franco Vietnamese
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Rank 63. Holybelly
American
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Rank 64. Les Œillets
Natural Wine Bar
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Rank 66. Comer
Mexican
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Guillaume Sanchez is the heavily tattooed chef you've seen in food circles, and his Michelin-starred tasting counter in the 9th is exactly as theatrical as that sounds. Black and gold interior, open fire doing most of the heavy lifting, fermented vegetables and cold-steamed extractions setting a mood before the more explosive moves arrive. Sitting at the counter puts you in the middle of it, which is the point.
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Fermentation jars line the shelves and the room is always packed at this creative sharing-plates restaurant on rue de Paradis. Franco-American chef Thomas Chisholm, a former Top Chef contestant, runs a kitchen that wanders freely across borders, landing somewhere between sustainable fine dining and genuine playfulness. The food follows the seasons and leans hard on foraged and agroforestry ingredients, with globetrotting flavors folded into each dish.
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Rank 72. Pétrelle
Mediterranean
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Rank 73. Bang Bang
Mexican
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Rank 74. Minore
Modern French
A casserole pot of artichokes, morels, beef marrow, and foie gras tells you everything: this is a Paris bistro that takes itself seriously without making you feel you should, too. The former Abri chef runs the kitchen while a dedicated bartender minds a cocktail list that holds its own. Share plates, tapas snacks, or something more serious, the format bends to your appetite. The patio fills up the moment the sun appears, as it always does in the ninth.
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Rank 76. Bloom Garden
Mediterranean
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Rank 78. Quedubon
French
The owner, cap tilted, beard bristling, greets you like he's been expecting you, steers you toward a natural wine from a friend's vineyard, and lets the food do the rest. This wine-bar bistro in the 19th runs a short, no-nonsense French menu with offal on it most days, cooked by a British chef who came up under Bruno Doucet. The room is exactly as lived-in as it sounds, and nobody there seems to mind.
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Rank 79. Oobatz
Pizza
Pizzas arrive already cut, no cutlery provided, because folding and eating with your hands is the whole point. This slim, casual pizza spot in the 11th draws a notably American crowd, which tracks given the American behind it. The menu stays short and focused, the dough thin and soft with a small crust, and the wine list runs long on French and Italian bottles. Book ahead or gamble on a counter seat.
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Rank 81. FIEF
Modern French
The name is a double meaning: FIEF stands for "Made Here In France," and the kitchen takes that as a hard rule, sourcing every ingredient from within the country's borders. Sichuan pepper from Gers, yuzu from Montpellier, miso from Burgundy. It's a Michelin-starred modern French restaurant in the 11th, and counter seating puts you close enough to hear the team narrate each plate as it lands.
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Rank 83. Ave Pizza Romana
Romana Pizza
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Rank 86. Zinga
Guadeloupean Caribbean
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Rank 87. Dogma
Fried Chicken American
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Rank 88. Urfa Dürüm
Turkish
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Rank 90. Mensae
Modern New American
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Rank 91. Mala Boom
Sichuan
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The black sesame onigiri stuffed with aged comté is a reasonable summary of what this two-floor Asian bistro is doing in the 10th. The team behind Eels, both trained with William Ledeuil and clearly serious about the continent, turn out fragrant small plates that wander cheerfully across Asia without stopping to explain themselves. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place that makes the neighborhood feel quietly smug.
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Rank 93. Becquetance
French
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Rank 94. Nour Comptoir
Levantine Middle Eastern
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Rank 95. Polka
Bakery
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Rank 97. Elements Pain Bio
Bakery
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Rank 99. Maison
Modern French
The gabled ceiling and long communal table give this modern French restaurant in the 11th the feel of a loft someone forgot to fully convert. Sota Atsumi, who came up through Michel Troisgros and other serious kitchens, runs a market-driven set menu out of an open kitchen anchored by a wood-fired oven. The cooking is French at its bones with a quiet Japanese sensibility running underneath, the kind of thing that reads as effortless until you think about it.
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Rank 100. Nakatsu
Japanese