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  1. Rank 337. Pizza Chic

    Pizzeria

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  3. Rank 337. Plaq

    Chocolate Dessert

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  7. Rank 337. Polka

    Boulangerie

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  8. Rank 337. Poney Club

    Natural Wine Bar

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  13. Rank 337. Ramen Wagaya

    Japanese Noodle Shop

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  14. Rank 337. Ratafia

    Wine Bar

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  19. Rank 337. Rond

    Breton Bistro

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  22. Rank 337. Ruine

    Coffee

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  23. Rank 337. Ryô

    Japanese

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  24. Rank 337. Sables

    French

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  25. Rank 337. Sama Bistro

    Lebanese

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  27. Rank 337. Sanjo

    Japanese

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  28. Rank 337. Scarpetta

    Italian

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  32. Rank 337. Soif, la cave

    Natural Wine Bar

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  33. Rank 337. Song Heng

    Vietnamese

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  35. Rank 337. Subaco

    Izakaya Japanese

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  37. Rank 337. Sugaar

    Basque

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  38. Rank 337. Superposé

    Sandwich Shop

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  39. Rank 337. Supra

    Georgian Wine Bar

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  40. Rank 337. Sur Mer

    Seafood

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  41. Rank 337. T'Xuan

    Taiwanese

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  42. Rank 337. Taco Mesa

    Mexican

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  44. Rank 337. Tanguy

    Breton French

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  47. Rank 337. Taxiphone

    Coffee

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  49. Rank 337. Tempero

    Brazilian

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  51. Rank 337. Test

    Seafood

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  56. Rank 337. Thuy Long

    Vietnamese

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  57. Rank 337. Tomo

    Japanese

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  58. Rank 337. Tomo

    Japanese

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  59. Rank 337. Tonton Ramen

    Ramen Shop

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  60. Rank 337. Tora Tora

    Japanese

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  61. Rank 337. Toraya

    Japanese

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  62. Rank 337. ToriTori Ramen

    Japanese Noodle Shop

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  64. Rank 337. Trâm 130

    Franco Vietnamese

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  65. Rank 337. Trois B

    French

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  66. Rank 337. Tuan

    Japanese

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  67. Rank 337. Two Doors

    Coffee

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  71. Rank 337. Uroco

    Japanese

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  73. Rank 337. Vague

    Coffee

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  80. Rank 337. Wani

    Japanese

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  83. Rank 337. Ypseli

    Greek

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  84. Rank 337. Zakuro

    Japanese

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  85. Rank 337. Zinga

    Guadeloupean Caribbean

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  86. Rank 686. Arnaud Nicolas

    Modern French

    A delicatessen counter greets you at the door, which tells you something about where the evening is headed. This is a charcuterie-forward restaurant near the Eiffel Tower, where the chef, a Meilleur Ouvrier de France, builds tasting menus around pâté en croûte and house terrine alongside more involved cooking. The room is elegant without being hushed, the service is polished, and you can buy provisions on your way out, in case dinner wasn't quite enough.


  87. Rank 686. Caïus

    Bistronomic French

    Dark wood paneling and ochre chairs in a residential corner of the 17th give this modern bistro the feel of a very well-decorated local, until you notice how beautifully everyone is dressed. The short, evolving menu comes from an Italian-born chef who trained in avant-garde kitchens and then made the elegant decision to calm down. Discipline and simplicity are his words for it. The pastry chef shares the philosophy, which is a relief.


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  89. Rank 686. Phở Tài

    Vietnamese


  90. This Moroccan restaurant in the 11th was pouring natural wine back when people still thought it was a fermentation accident. Families fill the room at lunch, and by night the wine-obsessed show up under moucharabieh lanterns to work through the couscous and tagine lists. The servers will tell you where every lamb and spice came from, at length, so budget the time. It's a sit-down meal, not a quick stop.


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  92. Oscar Wilde spent his last night on earth here, which tells you something about the clientele's taste for drama. L'Hôtel is a boutique hotel on the Left Bank that invented the form before anyone had a name for it, with 20 rooms designed by Jacques Garcia, each one so different from the last that guests request specific ones by personality. The hammam pool underground is a genuine luxury, and Wilde's Lounge handles cocktails and jazz with appropriate decadence.

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  93. The cracked tile floor and bright chairs haven't changed much since Eisenhower was in office, which is exactly the point. This old-school luncheonette a short walk from Place Vendôme fills fast with office workers, boutique staff, and visitors all eating the same sepia-toned classics: onion soup, duck confit, tarte Tatin. Good French food in central Paris at prices that don't require a sit-down with your accountant is rarer than it sounds.


  94. The light-filled corridor looking onto manicured gardens sets the tone the moment you arrive at this grand palace hotel, perched on the edge of the Versailles estate. The building has been around forever, and the bones show it, though the rooms and suites read more contemporary than dusty. Polished service, refined dining, and a spa round out a stay that makes the train from Paris feel like a very sensible decision.

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  95. The rooms here come in a jewel box of blues and greens, with marble-topped desks and tiled bathrooms that feel designed rather than decorated. This 49-room boutique hotel off rue Montorgueil tips its hat to Art Deco but lands squarely in the present, largely thanks to designer Dorothée Meilichzon. Rooms run compact by most measures, generous by Parisian ones. The restaurant and the Night Flight bar both pull a local crowd, which in this neighborhood means creative cocktails and no shortage of opinions.

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  96. A former printing press on one of Saint-Germain's most storied streets, Bel Ami sits comfortably between palace-hotel excess and the austerity of the artful-but-chilly boutique. The look is mid-century modernism tipped into retro-futurism, which sounds chaotic and somehow isn't. There's a spa, a bar, a restaurant, and beds that seem designed specifically to make leaving feel unreasonable. Art by local names hangs throughout, keeping the free-thinking neighborhood spirit honest.

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  97. The top suite runs a hundred square meters of room and another hundred of terrace, jacuzzi included, with a panoramic sweep of the city. Bowmann is a boutique luxury hotel on Boulevard Haussmann, smaller and quieter than Paris's grand palace properties, which is either the point or the selling point depending on how you feel about marble lobbies the size of train stations. A Lacure Officine spa, a garden restaurant, and the Michelin Guide's attention round it out.

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  98. The original Chanel atelier is next door, which tells you something about the address. This hotel on rue Cambon sits a short walk from the Tuileries and the Ritz, deep in the Right Bank's best real estate. Rooms run larger than you'd expect for central Paris, and the post-refurbishment decor mixes clean contemporary lines with 18th-century artwork and marble baths. The Italian restaurant opens onto a courtyard for summer dining.

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  99. A Haussmannian building on rue de Berri, steps from the Champs-Élysées, keeps things intimate enough that the place feels more like a very well-dressed apartment than a luxury hotel. Rooms and suites run to fine fabrics and refined décor, each hung with an artwork framing a classic Parisian scene. There's a small spa on the ground floor, and a bar and restaurant, Le Bayadère, for when you'd rather not go back outside just yet.

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  100. The Experimental group built its name on cocktail bars before graduating to boutique hotels, and this Marais property is where they went full luxury. Designer Tristan Auer leaned into Seventies optimism and never looked back: the public spaces are dramatic and colorful, the rooms opulent, the whole thing more sensory overload than urban zen. A Roman-inspired spa with a heated indoor pool and an American Bar round out what is a genuinely hedonistic operation.

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