Celebrity Restaurants

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Le Dôme — Freshest Seafood in Paris

May 20, 2012

Unlike other brasseries, Le Dôme is strictly a seafood restaurant (except for one veal dish on the menu). With its own poisonnerie just around the corner from the restaurant, it is one of the finest seafood purveyors in all of…

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Café Flandrin

September 24, 2010

A voiturier parks Lamborghinis, Bentleys, BMWs, and Ferraris. Slender Parisian women wear Chanel, Dior, Jean-Paul Gautier and Hermes. Young men in cashmere sweaters, sleek pants, and Gucci shoes smoke cigars outside on the sidewalk terrace. This is Café Flandrin, where…

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Au Pied de Cochon

March 3, 2010

Open all hours of the day, every day of the week, this old-fashioned brasserie is perfect for a mid-day snack after shopping at nearby stores like Dehillerin, or after a late night out, for an early morning rejuvenation of coffee and…

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Le Select Brasserie

February 22, 2010

On Boulevard Montparnesse, next to four more storied neighbors — La Coupole, Le Dôme, La Rotonde and Le Relais de L’Entrecôte — sits Le Select, a more dress-down Brasserie with worn wooden tables and chairs, big mirrors, beaming brass and…

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L’As du Fallafel

February 6, 2010

On a teeny promenade lined with chic boutiques, kosher butchers, and bakeries where you can buy bagels, apple strudel and cheesecake, lies a truly world famous falafel stand and restaurant. People line up, eager to taste crunchy hot falafel tucked…

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Les Deux Magots

February 5, 2010

A café of a bygone era situated on Boulevard Saint Germain des Prés across from the oldest church in all of Paris (no, not Notre Dame but Eglise Saint Germain des Prés), Les Deux Magots is perfect for sitting on…

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Brasserie Lipp

Brasserie Lipp

February 5, 2010

Located on the bustling Boulevard Saint Germain des Prés, directly across from two other famous cafes – Café Flore and Les Deux Magots â€” Brasserie Lipp captures the essence of yesteryear with its gleaming brass fixtures, large mirrors, painted art deco ceilings, and tulip…

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Le Grand Véfour food

Le Grand Véfour

January 29, 2010

In the heart of the 1st arrondissement, next to the Louvre, sits Le Grand Véfour, one of the oldest restaurants in Paris. Appropriately situated in the Palais-Royale, the boyhood home of France’s grandest King, Louis XIV (the ‘’Sun King’’), this majestic restaurant…

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Chez Georges

Chez Georges (2eme)

January 26, 2010

If you want to drop into a time capsule, and experience a classic Parisian bistro which has not changed since it opened in the 1920s, look no further than Chez Georges. A favorite standby of Julia Child, you can almost…

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Fontaine de Mars

Fontaine de Mars

January 26, 2010

If you are looking for the classic look and feel of a Parisian restaurant – red checkered tableclothes, big bulb lamps, deep cherry wood paneling with that distinctive French cursive writing etched onto the windows – then Fontaine de Mars…

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