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  8. Rank 796. Charbon Kunitoraya

    Yakitori Japanese

    The timber façade gives it away before you're through the door, but inside it's old zinc counter, metro tiling, mirrors, and wood panelling, as if a Parisian bistro and a Tokyo grill worked out a custody arrangement. This yakitori restaurant runs mostly on tasting menus of traditional dishes, with poulet de Bresse on the skewer a recurring reason to book ahead. Finish with the seasonal wagashi, the traditional Japanese pastries that tend to stop the table cold.


    Address
    5 rue Villedo, Paris, Ile-de-France 75001, France · Paris
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    Closed now, opens 12:30 PM

    Friday 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, 7:45 PM–9:30 PM

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  12. Rank 796. Chez Babo

    Wine Bar

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  13. Rank 796. Chez Bruno

    Wine Bar

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  19. Rank 796. Chez Jeannot

    Wine Bar

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  21. Rank 796. Chez Lui

    Wine Bar

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  22. Rank 796. Chez Mamane

    Moroccan Bistro

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  25. Rank 796. Chez Maya

    Basque

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  26. Rank 796. Chez Mérie

    Tarentaise Alpine

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  27. 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.


    Address
    10 rue de Belzunce, Paris, Ile-de-France 75010, France · Paris
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–1:30 PM, 7 PM–9:30 PM

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  30. Rank 796. Chez Pia

    Pizzeria

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  31. Rank 796. Chez Pif

    Seafood

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  32. Rank 796. Chez Pipo

    French

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  33. One end of the Pont Valentré, the medieval bridge Cahors puts on every postcard, is where the chef lands his modern French restaurant, accessible enough for lunch, polished enough for dinner. The cooking shifts with the light: daytime menus stay grounded and generous, evenings lean into premium ingredients and more considered plates. The whole thing moves between unpretentious and quietly accomplished without making a fuss about either.


  34. Rank 796. Chez Taeko

    Japanese

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  36. Rank 796. Chixko

    Barbecue

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  37. 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.


  38. A short walk from Annecy's centre, this cosy modern restaurant sits in a room that splits the difference between Japanese minimalism and Scandinavian calm. The kitchen leans seasonal and careful, the kind of place where the last wax beans of the year get their moment. The sommelier moonlights as a winegrower, which tells you something about how seriously they take the natural wine list.


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    33 avenue des Romains, Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 74000, France · Annecy
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    Closed now, opens 12:15 PM

    Friday 12:15 PM–1:45 PM, 7:30 PM–9 PM

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  41. Rank 796. Circus

    Modern French Wine Bar


    Address
    43 rue Faramand, Arbois, Burgundy-Franche-Comte 39600, France · Arbois
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–1:30 PM, 7:30 PM–9 PM, 7:30 PM–11 PM

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  43. Rank 796. Clown Bar

    French


    Address
    114 Rue Amelot, 75011 Paris, France · Paris
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 7 PM–11 PM

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  47. The open flame does most of the talking here, with a parrilla grill and plancha turning out Colombian-Italian fusion in a narrow, terracotta-warm room near the port. The terrace spills onto the street in orange seating, and the kitchen stays visible throughout. Chimichurri shows up alongside braised veal, ceviche alongside sardines. It's a casual, warm restaurant where two culinary traditions share a table without much fuss about it.


  48. Rank 796. Comer

    Mexican

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  49. Rank 796. Comète

    Bistro


  50. Rank 796. Comets

    Café

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  51. Rank 796. Comme au Vietnam

    Vietnamese Noodle Shop

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  58. Rank 796. Coupi Bar

    Teochew Café

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  60. Rank 796. Crema

    Coffee

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  61. Rank 796. Crème

    Café

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  63. Rank 796. Crémoir

    Dessert

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  65. Rank 796. CRU

    Wine Bar

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  66. Rank 796. Crudo

    Seafood

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  67. Rank 796. Crus et découvertes

    Natural Wine Bar

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  68. Rank 796. Cuisine

    Japanese

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  69. Rank 796. Dadino Pizze

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

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  70. An old transport café on the Saint-Malo to Mont-Saint-Michel road, now a modern restaurant with exposed stone walls and the warmth of someone's kitchen. Two chefs, trained between them by Passard, Robuchon, and Etchebest, are cooking with Breton produce in ways that are quietly ambitious, the kind of cooking where a dessert built around smoked aubergine and sorrel ice cream somehow makes complete sense.


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    23c rue de Rennes, Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany 35120, France · Dol-de-Bretagne
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    Closed now, opens noon

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 7 PM–10 PM

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  71. Rank 796. Dante

    French


  72. Rank 796. Dao

    Chinese

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  76. Rank 796. Delicatessen

    Wine Bar

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  78. Rank 796. Delish

    Café

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  79. Rank 796. Déméter

    Bordelaise Bistro

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  82. Rank 796. Des Bouchons

    Wine Bar

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  85. Rank 796. Des Terres

    Wine Bar


  86. Rank 796. Détail

    Café

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  87. Rank 796. Détour

    Bakery

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  89. Rank 796. Déviant

    Cocktail Bar

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  90. Rank 796. Dialogues

    Vegetarian French

    A cream façade on rue du Helder opens into two rooms: a fine dining restaurant upstairs with emerald banquettes and a backlit marble counter, and a cave à manger downstairs for something looser. The kitchen is entirely vegetarian or veggie-seafood, with plants carrying every course. The mural alone is worth studying while you wait for whatever the team is doing to celeriac this season.


  91. Rank 796. Dìdi

    Chinese

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  92. Rank 796. 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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  94. Rank 796. Dogma

    Fried Chicken American

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  95. Rank 796. Donna

    Pizzeria

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  97. Rank 796. Double Zero

    Wine Bar

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