Paris 8e arrondissement · Avenues and luxury

Champs-Élysées & Madeleine

The Champs-Élysées, the Arc de Triomphe, the Golden Triangle of couture, and the Madeleine. Built for processions and shopping; thin on the kind of street life that makes a neighbourhood.

Where to eat in the 8e (3)

• Il Caffè€ · Italian lunch counterA small all-day Italian off Faubourg Saint-Honoré doing house-made pasta to a working-lunch crowd — a rare sub-€15 plate in an arrondissement that mostly isn't.
• Lazare€€ · Station brasserieÉric Frechon's brasserie built into Gare Saint-Lazare, packed from breakfast to last train, where the saucisse-purée and the quenelle de brochet are done with three-star muscle at canteen-adjacent prices.
• Chez Savy€€€ · Aveyron bistroA 1920s Art Deco bistro of red banquettes a block off the Champs-Élysées, holding the line on Aveyron cooking — Laguiole beef, lamb, a proper soufflé — while the avenue sells tourists overpriced steak.

Where to stay in the 8e (1)

• New Orient Hôtel€€ · Boutique hotelCatherine and Josef Wehrle's antique-furnished rooms in a Haussmann building near Parc Monceau — balconies on some, a rare small lift, and the quiet north end of the 8th.

Underground & cool in the 8e (2)

• Musée Cernuschi€ · Free Asian-art museumHenri Cernuschi brought back archaic Chinese bronzes and, from Japan, the two-metre eighteenth-century bronze Buddha of Meguro that now anchors the stairwell. The permanent rooms — Neolithic jades, Han figures, Tang ceramics — are free, and the mansion sits against Parc Monceau.
• Musée Jacquemart-Andr退 · House-museum (Italian & French art)Édouard André and the painter Nélie Jacquemart spent a banking fortune on a Belle Époque mansion and an 'Italian museum' within it — Tiepolo, Uccello, Mantegna, Botticelli — reopened March 2026. The set piece is the double-helix marble staircase under a Tiepolo ceiling.