The Top 100 Restaurants Near Glaster
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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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Rank 4. Gilou
British
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Rank 5. 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 6. 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 7. Chi’s Vietfood
Vietnamese
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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 11. Rond
Breton French
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Rank 15. Alluma
Israeli Mediterranean
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Rank 16. 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 18. Le Petit Rhin
French
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Rank 20. Bang Bang
Mexican
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Rank 21. Becquetance
French
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Rank 23. Osteria Paradiso
Italian
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Rank 24. Le Grand Bol
Chinese
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Rank 26. 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 27. Mensae
Modern New American
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Rank 30. La Cave à Michel
French
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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 34. 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 37. Trâm 130
Franco Vietnamese
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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 44. Le Chateaubriand
French
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Rank 45. 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 50. SENsation
Cantonese
The half Peking duck, ordered two days ahead and served in two courses, tells you everything about this relaxed Cantonese neo-bistro in the 11th. The chef spent years at Shang Palace before opening something looser and louder, with aproned servers who actually talk to you and a deliberately short menu that resists the urge to cover every province. The room is convivial in a way that feels earned rather than designed.
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Rank 52. Le Jourdain
French
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Rank 53. Sama Bistro
Lebanese
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Rank 54. Le Baratin
Bistro French
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Rank 55. Eunoé
Modern New American
A Japanese chef and his front-of-house partner run this quietly stylish bistro near Square Maurice Gardette, where the walls read "work in progress" in sand and ochre and the cooking reads nothing of the sort. The menu moves with the moment, technically precise but loose enough to feel personal. Dinner shifts into something a little more considered than lunch. The wine list gets attention too, which in the 11th is saying something.
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Rank 56. Mala Boom
Sichuan
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Rank 58. Nour Comptoir
Levantine Middle Eastern
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Rank 59. Pistil
Vegetarian
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Rank 61. Septime
Modern Cuisine, Creative
Every morning at 10am sharp, a booking window opens online and closes almost as fast, which tells you most of what you need to know about this modern bistro in the 11th. The surprise tasting menu changes daily, leaning plant-forward without making a fuss about it. Industrial bones, rough wood tables, and easy service keep things grounded. It holds a Michelin star and a spot on the World's 50 Best list, and the scramble for reservations has become its own Parisian ritual.
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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 67. Patine
Bistro French
Exposed brick, retro details, and an open kitchen put the room squarely in classic eastern Paris bistro territory. The cooking is traditional French done with real care, the kind where the brill actually tastes like brill. Natural and organic wines fill the list, and the whole thing has the low-key confidence of a neighborhood place that has nothing to prove to you.
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Rank 70. Ramen Wagaya
Noodles
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Bruno Verjus spent years as an entrepreneur, blogger, and food critic before opening this intimate counter restaurant in the 12th, which now holds two Michelin stars and a spot at number eight on the World's 50 Best list. He calls himself a middleman between his suppliers and the plate, which sounds modest until the food arrives. The daily tasting menu shifts entirely with what's available, cooked to order with the kind of restraint that lets exceptional produce do the talking.
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Rank 73. Auberge Pyrénées Cévennes
Traditional French
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Rank 74. Kapé
Filipino
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Rank 75. Pochana
Thai
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Rank 76. Furia
Natural wine Mexican
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Rank 77. Haikara Deep Fried
Deep Fried Japanese
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Rank 78. Deux Bistrot de chefs
Modern French
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Rank 79. Dreamin’ man
Japanese
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Rank 80. Elsass
Alsatian French
A former garage on Avenue Parmentier, now a clean-lined loft with counter seats and an open kitchen, where every bottle on the wine list comes from Alsace. This small restaurant rethinks the region without the rustic props: sauerkraut turns up in crispy cromesquis or alongside house-made boudin blanc, and the whole menu exists to show off those wines. A lawyer opened it, which explains a certain precision to how the argument is laid out.
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Manon Fleury has written a whole book on grains, and you can taste the obsession at this Michelin-starred fine dining room in the Marais. The cooking is almost entirely plant-based, with animal protein appearing rarely enough to feel like a guest. Vegetables, fruit, grains, and careful sourcing from short local chains do the heavy lifting, and the waxed concrete and velvet banquettes keep things grounded. Book well ahead.
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Two dining rooms that couldn't agree on a decorator, one all bare stone and natural materials, the other a full-blown explosion of color and dried flowers. This is a Michelin-starred modern French restaurant in the 11th where the cooking follows the seasons closely and the plating is meticulous without feeling stiff. The room runs warm and the service leans generous, which together make a case that serious cooking doesn't have to be solemn.
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Rank 87. Café Les Deux Gares
Bistro French
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Rank 88. Project Sausage
British
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Rank 89. Masaikuta
Japanese
Scraped walls, waxed concrete, and mottled mirrors set the tone in this 11th-arrondissement restaurant, where the chef spent years cooking in Japan before passing through the kitchens of Bruno Verjus and Bertrand Grébaut. A single blind tasting menu runs France headlong into Japan, Mont-Saint-Michel cockles alongside Cantabrian anchovies, sauces that are technically involved but land with real clarity. A wine list approaching 400 labels is an unusually serious cellar for such an unassuming room.
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A Michelin-starred modern bistro in the 11th, where the room is plain and the cooking is anything but. The chef trained at some of the most rigorous kitchens in France before opening this small, unshowy space, and the restraint shows up on the plate: seasonal ingredients handled precisely, flavors that land clean. The kind of place where the modesty of the surroundings makes the food feel like a quiet argument you can't really counter.
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Rank 92. Holybelly
American
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Rank 93. Dante
French
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Rank 94. La Malicia
Mezcal Mexican
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Rank 95. Kubri
Lebanese
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Rank 96. Kei
French-Japanese New American
A chef who grew up watching French cooking documentaries in Japan now holds three Michelin stars in Paris, which is either the most romantic story in food or just evidence that obsession works. Kei is a fine dining restaurant where the French technique is precise and the Japanese eye for plating is unmistakable, the two pulling in the same direction rather than competing for attention.
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Inside the revamped Samaritaine, tucked into the Cheval Blanc hotel on the Seine, this three-Michelin-star fine dining room is the Paris project of Arnaud Donckele, who also holds three stars at La Vague d'Or in Saint-Tropez. His cooking traces a line from Normandy to the Mediterranean, and his sauces are the thing: built with the obsessive logic of a perfumer, they're worth slowing down for before the rest of the plate arrives.
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Rank 98. Les Enfants Rouges
French
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Rank 99. Unthaitled
Thai
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Exposed brick, low beams, and stonework packed so tight that latecomers press against strangers they'll soon be sharing bread with. Grégory Marchand trained at Gramercy Tavern and Jamie Oliver's Fifteen before landing on rue du Nil, and this snug modern bistro in Le Sentier holds a Michelin star for cooking that pulls from serious sourcing without making a sermon of it.