Chic and gastronomic Restaurants in Paris

Private dining at a gastronomic restaurant in Paris is an opportunity to mark any occasion by receiving your guests in a sophisticated setting.

Summary

Starred restaurants: an extraordinary experience
Gastronomic gems
Hotel restaurants well worth a visit
Gastronomy on the Seine
A gourmet break in a museum or historic site

Starred restaurants: an extraordinary experience

Situated in the heart of the Bois de Boulogne, the Pré Catelan has 3 stars in the famous guide. Inaugurated in 1856, this gastronomic restaurant today owes its success to the talented chef Frédéric Anton. 2 stars in the Michelin Guide, Le Clarence is just a stone's throw from the Champs-Elysées roundabout and has three private lounges for guaranteed privacy. For exceptional moments overlooking the Grand Palais.

Overlooking the Seine and Notre-Dame, La Tour d’Argent is a landmark gastronomic institution in Paris, with a Michelin star. At the helm in the kitchen, chef Yannick Franques offers new recipes and revisits the culinary heritage of the Tour via emblematic dishes that have made it so famous. In the dining room, the service is impeccable and quite a spectacle.

Situated in Rue Beethoven, near to Trocadéro, Ortensia, is a little 20-cover gem with 1 Michelin star. The chef Terumitsu Saito invites haute gastronomie enthusiasts to savour meticulously prepared dishes and passionately selected wines.

A few steps from Paris City Hall, Benoit Paris is the only Parisian bistro with a star in the Michelin guide. Piloted by Alain Ducasse, this chic and convivial, typically Parisian bistro, offers generous bourgeois cuisine.

Gastronomic gems

Pouliche

The cuisine of Pouliche chef Amandine Chaignot reflects who she is: simple, spontaneous and sincere, but also gourmet and generous. Here, it's a single menu, but with local, seasonal produce, because at Pouliche, quality is better than quantity. The chef's first restaurant also offers “Lazy lunches” on Sundays and public holidays, and 100% vegetarian menus on Wednesdays.

Le Colvert recently acquired a new decor, a new identity, and a new chef: Arnaud Baptiste. In the heart of Saint Germain des Prés, the chef who made a name for himself on Top Chef cooks a unique three-course meal for lunch, which is renewed every week. For dinner, he gives free rein to his imagination to create new and exclusive dishes.

Between Saint-Michel and Saint-Germain des Prés, Christine is the restaurant not to be missed. Chef Mehdi Bencheick prepares refined, timeless dishes. As a former wine cellar, fine bottles accompany every dish. The team knows how to give guests a warm welcome and guarantee a convivial atmosphere.

At ChoCho, Thomas Chisholm's cooking is out of the ordinary: in addition to his highly acclaimed appearance on Top Chef in 2021, his cuisine is marked by the visual, decompartmentalized aspect of his dishes. American, French and Catalan influences are evident in both the Medley menu and the wine list, all in a contemporary, urban setting.

Situated on the 6th floor of a Haussmann-style building in the Golden Triangle, the 39V restaurant offers incredible views over the rooftops of Paris. Decorated by designer Raphaël Navot, the atmosphere is as refined as the cuisine created by chef Frédéric Vardon.

Just a few steps from the banks of the Seine, Atica is a new kind of restaurant that invites you to embark on an eight-stage adventure. The experience takes place in a unique 420m² setting, where the layout and details have been designed to enhance perceptions and arouse emotions. 112m² of 16K resolution screens take you to a different destination every 6 months. The Basque Country is currently in the spotlight. These visual media project captivating videos that immerse participants in magnificent natural panoramas and stories of passionate craftsmen.

Hotel restaurants well worth a visit

Monsieur restaurant

Enjoy a gastronomic experience at the l’Hôtel Lancaster 5 étoiles, at Restaurant Monsieur, an elegant setting where chef Sébastien Giroud proposes top-notch gastronomic cuisine. Drawing on his experience in other regions of France and restaurants, the chef offers local cuisine with a modern twist. Respecting the seasons, he advocates a reasoned approach to terroir, and likes to combine noble products with unexpected flavours.

Located in the in the 9th arrondissement, in the beautiful hotel Maison Mère, the restaurant Nectar offers seasonal cuisine that puts the produce at the heart of each dish. Refined and creative, the cuisine offers a moment of discovery and a sensory experience that invites you to travel.

Inaugurated in 1862 by Napoleon III, the Café de la Paix is an iconic Parisian restaurant, as is the InterContinental Paris Le Grand hotel to which it is attached. It is renowned for its Second Empire elegance, listed frescoes and sumptuous gilding, and offers top-class French cuisine.

Fouquet's Paris, an emblematic brasserie, offers a prestigious and historic setting for your business events. With its private rooms and two magnificent terraces, Fouquet's can accommodate up to 200 people for business lunches, seminars or receptions, with a menu designed by Chef Pierre Gagnaire.

Casetta, the restaurant of the 5 particulier hotel, offers authentic Mediterranean cuisine using fresh, high quality produce. With its varied menu and selection of local and international wines, Casetta offers a refined and friendly setting, ideal for a successful business lunch.

Situated right in the heart of the Montparnasse district, in the l’hôtel Niepce Paris Curio Collection by Hilton , the restaurant La Verrière Paris is ideal for your business lunches or dinners. The interior decor of the restaurant is contemporary and refined, and the large dining room is bathed in natural light via an impressive glass roof. Chef Kayori Hirano and her team invite diners on a culinary journey through reinvented flavours, flavours from Japan combined with the delicacy of French cuisine.

Gastronomy on the Seine


A rendez-vous overlooking the Seine to enhance your business meals!
Ducasse sur Seine , a gourmet restaurant on the Seine, is as much a treat for the taste buds as it is for the eyes. As you cruise along the river, the view of the city is breathtaking. As for the food, the arguments are just as compelling: seasonal produce, intense flavours, a symphony of vintages ... 'modern Parisian cuisine inspired by nature', says Alain Ducasse.

A gourmet break in a museum or historic site

Go off the beaten track and take your staff or customers to exceptional venues steeped in history. Prestigious settings, breathtaking views, imaginative and sophisticated cuisine: all the ingredients to make your business lunches and dinners special.

Les Ombres Quai Branly probably boasts one of the finest views of the capital and its most iconic monument, the Eiffel Tower. Designed by architect Jean Nouvel, this gourmet restaurant opens onto a panoramic terrace, a veritable hanging garden with Mediterranean plants. The cuisine at Les Ombres, by young chef Alexandre Sempere, is an innovative take on French haute cuisine, freely inspired by the Mediterranean.

Situated in the Pavillon Amont of the Musée d’Orsay, featuring international decorative art of the 1900s, the restaurant d'Orsay offers magnificent decor, in which the gilding highlights the ceilings of the Grande Salle (a listed monument), and the Petit Salon is decorated with frescoes by Gabriel Ferrier and Benjamin Constant.

Situated at the heart of Pavillon Dufour, the restaurant Ducasse au château de Versailles is a place in harmony with the times. Contemporary reinterpretations of historic decorative themes evoke the splendour of the Sun King. The must: historic menus served in Marie-Antoinette's porcelain, exclusively reproduced.

In the heart of the Gare de Lyon, Le Train Bleu , a legendary Station buffet listed as a historic monument, is an essential Parisian stop-off with cuisine by Michel Rostang.

A true temple to French literature, the Restaurant Drouant hosts the famous Goncourt and Renaudot awards ceremonies. The century-old establishment offers bistronomic cuisine by chef Thibault Nizard in a warm atmosphere, featuring a spectacular Ruhlmann staircase and private rooms.

Le Procope, founded in 1686 as the first café in Paris, (it became a brasserie in the 20th century), frequented by Rousseau, Diderot, Voltaire, and Robespierre, has kept the recipes that are emblematic of French gastronomy, such as tête de veau, coq au vin and braised cheeks of beef.

The Maison Baccarat and Alain Ducasse have joined forces to transform the private mansion at 11 Place des États-Unis in Paris into a unique place where the art of crystal meets the art of gastronomy. In this magnificent setting, the Alain Ducasse Baccarat restaurant offers a cuisine that is a true voyage of taste.

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