A Foodie Guide to Paris, Paris, France

As world-renowned arbiters of culture and cuisine, restaurants in Paris have a lot to live up to. However, when I really thought about it, in the handful of times I’ve been to Paris, I couldn’t remember a single spectacular meal. Everything was okay but totally forgettable. On this trip, my wife and I vowed to change that. So we did our research and put together a perfectly curated foodie guide to Paris… with some mixed results.

In order to pick from the thousands of restaurant options Paris has to offer, we used a mix of critically acclaimed Michelin Guide restaurants as well as popular diners’ picks from TripAdvisor and Google. (Sorry Yelpers, no one uses that shit outside the US.)

In almost all cases, reviews corroborated Michelin Guide recommendations. And we gave precedence to places with a lot of reviews to increase our chances of having a once-in-a-lifetime culinary experience. In other words, we were more likely to choose a place with 1,500 reviews and 4.7 stars than a place with 4.9 stars but only 50 reviews.

If perhaps you’re hesitant about shelling out a ton of cash for a Michelin star tasting menu, rest assured, you’ll be shelling out a ton of cash regardless of where you eat in Paris. You’ll spend €15 on two coffees at any cafe before you even get any food, so you might as well pay a little more for a world class meal. Nonetheless, we’re not made of money; so we chose within reason and opted to visit the heavy hitters for lunch instead of dinner. This can save you as much as half the cost of the dinner tasting menu, even though it’s usually the same. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).