The Best Mediterranean Food in Paris

An open kitchen-bar near the Seine where a Tunisian-born chef runs a single surprise tasting menu each evening, French technique threaded through with North African spice, herb, and citrus in quantities calibrated to the millimeter. The room is intimate enough that you can watch every plate being assembled, which means the cooking has nowhere to hide. It holds a Michelin star, and the kitchen earned it the quiet way, by making restraint look like confidence.

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Assaf Granit's Shabour holds a Michelin star and still looks like a construction site, industrial ducts exposed overhead, lighting turned down low enough to make the menu squinting work. The Israeli TV chef runs a dozen restaurants across Jerusalem and London, and this Paris address carries all his signatures: a room that's genuinely loud and alive, and Mediterranean-leaning creative cooking that swings between delicate and exuberant without warning.

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The name means "kiss" in the Niçois dialect, which tells you something about how Julia Sedefdjian runs this one-Michelin-star restaurant on the Left Bank. The cooking is deeply Mediterranean, rooted in her Nice upbringing, so bouillabaisse and pissaladière share a menu with charcoal-fired socca. A surprise tasting menu is the move if you want the full picture, and the bouillabaisse riff is the dish people come back for.

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A 19th-century villa in Montreuil, complete with a herb garden and beehives out back, is an unlikely setting for one of the more quietly serious fine dining rooms in greater Paris, and yet here we are. The Provençal chef holds a Michelin star and cooks a Mediterranean-leaning menu where the sourcing does the talking. The terrace on a warm evening is the kind of thing people move to the suburbs for.

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Chez Carrie is a casual, vegetable-forward restaurant in the 2nd, run by a Michigan-born chef who has convinced Parisians to eat kale without being threatened into it. The wrap-around bar, lit by candles, suits walk-ins and solo diners, and the housemade kombucha arrives before the pickles and ferments do. It's the sort of room where the wellness is real but nobody makes you say so out loud.

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Portuguese music plays in the dining room, which tells you roughly everything about this French bistro in Boulogne-Billancourt. The menu leans Mediterranean with a Portuguese soul, so expect sardines, cockles, piquillo peppers, and the kind of pork dish that finishes with good cooking juices and a scattering of chives. Simple room, warm welcome, and a caramelised lemon cream at the end that does not overexplain itself.

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Straw lampshades, bamboo chairs, and seagrass underfoot set a beach-hut tone that somehow works on a Paris boulevard. This Mediterranean restaurant leans hard into Marseille, with fragrant, sun-drenched cooking, panisses, stuffed vegetables, and braised artichokes, loosening up at lunch on the terrace and pulling itself together at dinner for a set menu. The 20th arrondissement is happy to have it.

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The butter is house-made. So are the vinegars, the pickles, and most everything else, because the chef-owner runs a farm in Haute-Loire and trucks the harvest to Paris once a week. La Borie is a set-menu restaurant where the kitchen builds surprise menus around whatever arrived, so the seasons do the deciding. Dishes tend toward quiet simplicity rather than architectural drama, which takes more confidence than it looks.

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Octopus murals from street artist Kraken cover the walls, which sets the tone for a restaurant that doesn't sit still geographically. The chef behind Tomy & Co near Les Invalides runs this casual Mediterranean spot in the 13th, cooking a loose arc from Greece to Lebanon to Portugal with a Latin American detour. The menu moves the way someone with a good passport eats, and the ingredients taste like they arrived this morning.

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The blackboard menu changes, but the mood at this 13th-arrondissement bistro stays fixed somewhere between Paris and the South of France. The chef, who also runs Mensae across town, keeps things deliberately nostalgic: good ingredients, cooked with care, priced for the neighborhood. Warm chocolate mousse with vanilla ice cream and a fleur de sel crumble is the dessert regulars plan around. Chalk, zinc, and no pretension.

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