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.
Best for · Shoppers and big-sight tickers; less so anyone after a local dinner.
Where to eat in the 8e (3)All of Paris →
- 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)All of Paris →
Underground & cool in the 8e (2)All of Paris →
- 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.
Walks through the 8e (8)
- Iconic Paris3 of 8 stops here · ~3 hours walkingThe seven postcards, in order.
- Belle Époque Paris1 of 6 stops here · ~2.5 hours1875 to 1914, in six stops.
- Sweet Paris1 of 6 stops here · ~3 hours (with eating)Three centuries of sugar.
- Paris-19001 of 6 stops here · ~3 hoursSix places that look identical to a turn-of-the-century photograph.
- Paris Vertical1 of 6 stops here · ~5 hours (with tickets and queues)Six rooftops, in altitude order.
- Painters' Views1 of 7 stops here · ~half a dayStand exactly where they stood.
- Where the Writers Lived1 of 6 stops here · ~half a dayTheir actual apartments, not the cafés.
- Cocktail Bars1 of 6 stops here · ~one long eveningFrom the Hemingway era to the speakeasy era.