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  1. Rank 881. Chez Pif

    Seafood

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  2. Rank 881. Chez Pipo

    French

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  3. 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.


  4. Rank 881. Chez Taeko

    Japanese

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  6. Rank 881. Chixko

    Barbecue

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  7. 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.


  8. 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.


    Address
    33 avenue des Romains, Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 74000, France · Annecy
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7:30 PM

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

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
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  10. Rank 881. Circus

    Modern French Wine Bar


    Address
    43 rue Faramand, Arbois, Burgundy-Franche-Comte 39600, France · Arbois
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7:30 PM

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

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
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  12. Rank 881. Clown Bar

    French


    Address
    114 Rue Amelot, 75011 Paris, France · Paris
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 PM

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 7 PM–11 PM

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    WebsiteInstagram
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  16. 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.


  17. Rank 881. Comer

    Mexican

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  18. Rank 881. Comète

    Bistro


  19. Rank 881. Comets

    Café

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  20. Rank 881. Comme au Vietnam

    Vietnamese Noodle Shop

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  27. Rank 881. Coupi Bar

    Teochew Café

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  29. Rank 881. Crema

    Coffee

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  30. Rank 881. Crème

    Café

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  31. Rank 881. Crémoir

    Dessert

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  33. Rank 881. CRU

    Wine Bar

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  34. Rank 881. Crudo

    Seafood

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  35. Rank 881. Crus et découvertes

    Natural Wine Bar

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  36. Rank 881. Cuisine

    Japanese

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  37. Rank 881. Dadino Pizze

    Neapolitan Pizzeria

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  38. 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.


    Address
    23c rue de Rennes, Dol-de-Bretagne, Brittany 35120, France · Dol-de-Bretagne
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 PM

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 7 PM–10 PM

    Online
    Website
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  40. Rank 881. Dante

    French


  41. Rank 881. Dao

    Chinese

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  44. Rank 881. Delicatessen

    Wine Bar

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  45. Rank 881. Delish

    Café

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  46. Rank 881. Déméter

    Bordelaise Bistro

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  48. Rank 881. Des Bouchons

    Wine Bar

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  50. Rank 881. Des Terres

    Wine Bar


  51. Rank 881. Détail

    Café

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  52. Rank 881. Détour

    Bakery

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  54. Rank 881. Déviant

    Cocktail Bar

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  55. Rank 881. 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.


  56. Rank 881. Dìdi

    Chinese

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  57. Rank 881. 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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  59. Rank 881. Dogma

    Fried Chicken American

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  60. Rank 881. Donna

    Pizzeria

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  61. Rank 881. Double Zero

    Wine Bar

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  63. Rank 881. Du Peps

    Café

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  65. Crystal shelves line the walls of what was once a private mansion, and the dining room feels like a library curated by someone with extravagant taste, which is basically what it is. Alain Ducasse runs this fine dining room inside the Baccarat crystal house, moving through the South of France and well beyond. The setting is theatrical in a way that somehow doesn't undercut the food, and the service reads the room accordingly.


    Address
    11 place des États-Unis, Paris, Ile-de-France 75016, France · Paris
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7:30 PM

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

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
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  67. Rank 881. Echizen Soba Togo

    Japanese Noodle Shop

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  68. Rank 881. Echo

    Californian

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  69. Rank 881. Écrivins

    Natural Wine Bar

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  70. Rank 881. ED’S

    Bakery

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  72. Rank 881. Egiodola

    Wine Bar

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  74. Rank 881. El Silex

    Catalan

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  76. Rank 881. Element Terre

    Kebab Shop

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  78. Rank 881. Emporietto

    Italian

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  79. Rank 881. Enni Udon

    Japanese

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  80. Rank 881. Entre Deux Verres

    Natural Wine Bar

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  86. Rank 881. Etikoa

    Boulangerie

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  87. Rank 881. Etxe Nami

    Japanese

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  88. Rank 881. Eunoé

    Japanese

    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.


    Address
    6 rue Rochebrune, Paris, Ile-de-France 75011, France · Paris
    Hours

    Closed now, opens 7 PM

    Friday Noon–2 PM, 7 PM–10:30 PM

    Online
    WebsiteInstagram
  89. Rank 881. Ezkaratza

    Basque

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  91. Rank 881. Fadoli

    Bakery

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