Chez Marianne
2, rue des Hospitalières St-Gervais (4) Tel: 01-42-72-18-86 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR If you are not ready for the line or the grittiness of L’As du Falafel (see 4th Arr.), Chez Marianne around the corner serves Jewish/Israeli/Middle Eastern Read more
Benoit
20 rue Saint Martin (4)
Tel: 01-42-72-25-76
AMBIANCE/DÉCOR
Beautiful bistro décor, including a new, small third dining room which looks as if it was always there. Front room still best. (They used to sit the French there, Americans in the back. Ducasse ownership may have changed that.) Calls itself a bistro. Maybe. Some traditional items remain on the relatively limited menu. At best, a luxury bistro, with prices to match.
Robert et Louise
64, rue Vieille-du-Temple (3) Tel: 01-42-78-55-89 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR A (very) poor man’s L’Ami Louis. In the Marais. Small ground floor room and bar. Shared tables. Open fireplace for grilling, mostly steaks. Young crowd; French and tourists. Read more
Pamphlet (Le)
38, rue Debelleyme (3) Tel: 01-42-72-39-24 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR Attractive space on a quiet street in the 3rd. Hints of elegance. Short formula menu. Quite good execution, but one is conscious that they make it on the Read more
Marche de Enfants Rouges
39, rue de Bretagne (3) No phone AMBIANCE/DÉCOR This Diary is a personal restaurant list, not a Paris Guide, so it is questionable whether Enfants Rouge even belongs. It is not a restaurant per se, Read more
Ami Louis (L’)
32 rue du Vertbois (3) Tel: 01-48-87-77-48 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR Movie-set bistro. Could not be more authentic, but not worth the price. Mostly foreign clientele. It is among the most famous tables in Paris among Americans and Read more
Terroir Parisien
28 Place de la Bourse (2) Tel: 01-83-92-26-31 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR In a gesture of wasted objectivity (this Diary makes no claim of objectivity), we visited for lunch the second branch of 3-star Chef Yannick Alleno’s Terroir Read more
Passage 53
53, Passage des Panoramas (2) Tel: 01-42-33-04-35 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR Situated in a now somewhat honky tonk 19th century arcade, a form which anticipated the modern shopping center. This arcade the oldest remaining in Paris, a combination Read more
Versance (Le)
16 rue Feydeau (2) Tel: 01-45-08-00-08 AMBIANCE/DÉCOR An enigma which should have worked better as a complete package than it did. Complex, modern food from a small menu (five choices per category). Imaginative. Exquisitely plated. Read more