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What's open in Paris on a Monday
Monday is Sunday's sequel: the restaurants that traded through the weekend close, and several of the city's best-known rooms are dark. These are the picks whose own posted hours name Monday, each one re-checked for continued operation.
Last re-checked 21 Sep 2026 · Hotels are open every day — where to stay → · full ledger →
Essentials open this Monday (13)
- ★ Le Grenier de Notre-Dame€€ · Vegetarian restaurant · 5eFrance's oldest vegetarian dining room, running since 1978 a few steps from the cathedral, and it has outlived most of the fashions that came after it. Lentil burgers crowned with Bleu d'Auvergne, gratins, and a mango-and-avocado tartare; vegan and gluten-free marked plainly.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon 12:00–14:30 & 18:30–22:00; Tue–Fri 12:00–23:00; Sat–Sun from 9:00
- ★ Little Red Door€€€ · Cocktail bar · 3eA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–1am
- ★ The Cambridge Public House€€€ · Cocktail bar / pub · 3eAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Daily ~15:00–01:00
- ★ Jardin des Plantes€ · Botanical garden · 5eFrance's botanical garden, founded in 1626 as the royal medicinal beds and still run by the natural-history museum. The grounds are free: a long perspective of flowerbeds, an alpine garden, a rose garden, and a robinia planted in 1601, the oldest tree in Paris.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~7:30–20:00 summer, 8:00–17:30 winter
- ★ Librairie Galignani€ · Historic bookshop · 1erThe oldest English-language bookshop on the Continent, trading on rue de Rivoli since 1856 and run by six generations of the same family. Dark 1930s shelving holds around fifty thousand titles under the arcade; the fine-arts section is what regulars come for.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 10am–7pm; closed Sun
- ★ Café des Musées€€ · Traditional bistro · 3eA 1924 corner bistro with mosaic floor, dark woodwork and an open kitchen you can watch from the room. Its bœuf bourguignon was named best in Paris by Le Figaro and the kitchen has coasted on that reputation, more or less deservedly, since.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–15:00 & 19:00–23:30
- ★ Kodawari Ramen (Yokochō)€€ · Ramen · 6eAn Odéon ramen-ya dressed as a Tokyo back-alley, with house-made noodles and broth and a Bib Gourmand for value. The chicken-based shoyu and shio bowls do the heavy lifting, with gyoza alongside.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~11:45–23:00
- ★ Le Pantruche€€ · Neo-bistro · 9eFranck Baranger's small SoPi room that helped write the modern bistronomy playbook in 2011 and still earns a Michelin Bib. The Grand Marnier soufflé is the dessert everyone tells you to keep room for.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 12:30–14:30 & 19:30–22:30; closed weekends
- ★ Les Canailles Pigalle€€ · Bistro (Bib Gourmand) · 9eA 34-seat bistro on a quiet Pigalle side street — weekly menu, unpretentious service that still knows the wine list. The beef-tongue carpaccio and the rum baba you douse yourself are the house signatures.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & dinner; closed weekends
- ★ Mắm From Hano · Northern Vietnamese · 2eA Hanoi-born couple cook Northern Vietnamese food in a small Sentier room, and the 2026 Bib Gourmand has only made the table harder to get. The phở carries the saltier, bone-marrow-heavy broth of the north.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 12:00–14:30; Tue–Sat 19:00–21:30; closed Sun
- ★ Chez Casimir€€ · Market neo-bistro · 10eA market-driven neo-bistro behind Gare du Nord, named Bistrot of the Year at the 2026 Pudlo awards — pot-au-feu, Paris-Brest.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily; Sunday brunch
- ★ Lao Siam€€ · Thai / Lao · 19eA Belleville institution since 1985, founded by a Thai-Lao family and still cooking from the long menu that made its name: green papaya with pickled crab, crisp rice squares in coconut-shrimp-pork sauce, whole fish steamed in banana leaf. The décor is plain; the kitchen is not.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily 12–15 & 19–23:30
- ★ Bodrum€ · Turkish / kebab · 17eThe meat is veal breast, boned and cut and marinated in a spice blend the owners trace to a grandfather's kitchen in Turkey — no turkey filler, which is the usual giveaway. People will tell you it's the best kebab in Paris; it is at least very good.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 11:30–20:30
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- Aki€ · Japanese okonomiyakiAn Osaka specialist on the Japanese stretch of rue Sainte-Anne, where the okonomiyaki is griddled on a hot plate in front of you. The same family runs a bakery two doors down if the line is long.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat ~11:30–22:30; closed Sun
- Higuma€ · RamenOne of the long-standing institutions of rue Sainte-Anne, working an open kitchen and a no-reservations queue. The lamen comes in a gentle chūka-soba broth, the pan-fried gyoza are the reliable add-on, and the bill is about half a typical Parisian sit-down.✓ Verified open · 12 Sep 2026Daily 11:30–22:00
- Sanukiya€ · Japanese udon counterSanuki-style udon made with wheat flour from Kagawa, served thick and chewy at a counter where you watch the noodles go into the bowl. The queue down rue d'Argenteuil moves faster than it looks.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Daily ~11:30–22:00
- BO&MIE Louvre-Rivoli€€ · Boulangerie-pâtisserieA polished bakery-café a short walk from the Louvre, with more than fifty seats. The pain au praliné and the Madagascar-vanilla flan are the reasons people queue; the croissants use Charentes-Poitou butter and behave accordingly.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 7:30–20:00, Sun 8:00–20:00
- Le Garde Robe€€ · Natural wine bar with foodA narrow natural-wine bar near the Louvre that pours organic bottles and feeds you charcuterie, cheese and a few cooked plates without ceremony. Bottles line the walls; you eat off whatever surface is free.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & evening, Sat evening; closed Sun
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- ★ Mắm From Hano · Northern VietnameseA Hanoi-born couple cook Northern Vietnamese food in a small Sentier room, and the 2026 Bib Gourmand has only made the table harder to get. The phở carries the saltier, bone-marrow-heavy broth of the north.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 12:00–14:30; Tue–Sat 19:00–21:30; closed Sun
- Le Petit Vendôme€ · Counter sandwiches & bistroA bar-counter sandwich on a properly crackly baguette — Cantal and ham, or garlic saucisson — a minute from Place Vendôme, for the price of a coffee in the cafés around it.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon 9:00–16:00; Tue–Sat 9:00–01:00; closed Sun
- Daroco Bourse€€ · Italian trattoria & pizzaNeapolitan pizza and trattoria standards served under a mirrored ceiling in Jean-Paul Gaultier's former couture atelier off the Galerie Vivienne. The room is the headline act, but the wood-fired margherita holds its end up.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–15:00 and 19:00–24:00
- Frenchie Bar à Vins€€ · Wine bar with small platesGreg Marchand's no-reservations wine bar sits across the cobbles from his fully-booked Frenchie, doing brick-walled penance for the mothership's exclusivity. Small plates and wine by the glass, loud and a victim of its own popularity.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily 18:30–23:00; no reservations
- Le Mesturet€€ · Traditional bistroA seven-days-a-week bistro near the old Bourse where the kitchen cooks blanquette de veau and bœuf bourguignon straight, with no irony attached. The set menus do most of the work of keeping the bill sane.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 07:30–23:00; Sat–Sun 09:00–23:00
- Sugo Pasta Fresca€€ · Fresh pastaA tight Roman-leaning menu of six fresh pastas a few steps from the Bourse, four of them vegetarian. The cacio e pepe leans on 18-month Pecorino Romano; the house sugo is built on Sardinian tomatoes slow-cooked four hours.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Daily ~12:00–14:30 and 19:00–22:30
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- ★ Café des Musées€€ · Traditional bistroA 1924 corner bistro with mosaic floor, dark woodwork and an open kitchen you can watch from the room. Its bœuf bourguignon was named best in Paris by Le Figaro and the kitchen has coasted on that reputation, more or less deservedly, since.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–15:00 & 19:00–23:30
- Le Barav€ · Wine bar with foodA corner wine bar with some 250 references you can drink on site or carry out from the attached cave, set against boards of charcuterie and cheese. Lunch is a short list of tartines, salads and a homemade plat.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 12:00–15:00 & 18:30–00:30; Sat 18:30–00:30; closed Sun
- Breizh Café (Le Marais)€€ · CrêperieBuckwheat galettes done seriously — a complète or a seafood galette, a bowl of artisanal cider, then salted-butter-caramel to finish.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily ~9:00–23:00 (check annual closures)
- Chez Omar€€ · North African couscousAn old-Marais brasserie that has poured couscous for decades — merguez, lamb brochettes, or the mixed-meat royale — in a room that fills loud and fast.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Lunch & dinner Mon–Sat; Sun dinner only
- Le 404€€ · MoroccanA Berber room in a 16th-century building near Arts et Métiers, lit dimly enough that you squint at the menu, turning out tagines and couscous with seven vegetables. Little has changed in years, which is the point.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily, lunch 12:30–14:00, dinner 20:00–24:00
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- L'As du Fallafel€ · Levantine / falafelThe Rue des Rosiers benchmark since 1979: the 'special' pita, fried aubergine and red cabbage under tahini, eaten on the move.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Sun–Thu ~11:00–24:00; Fri until afternoon; closed Sat
- Le Trumilou€€ · Classic riverside bistroA bistro on the quai facing Île Saint-Louis, open since 1964 and largely unreconstructed down to the canard aux pruneaux. Prices have stayed closer to the neighbourhood's past than its present.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 12:00–15:00 & 19:00–23:00; Sun to 22:30
- Miznon€ · Israeli street foodEyal Shani's pita operation, transplanted from Tel Aviv, runs loud and fast on a narrow Pletzl street. The whole roasted cauliflower, charred and dressed in nothing but salt and tahini, has outlived the hype that first surrounded it.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Sun–Thu 12:00–23:30, Fri 12:00–16:00, closed Sat
- Chez Marianne€€ · Jewish-Levantine deliA long-running corner of the Pletzl that sells its mezze by the count: you choose four, six or more items from a case of hummus, falafel, aubergine caviar and herring. The sit-down room is calmer than the falafel-window scrum outside.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–00:00
- Le Temps des Cerises€€ · Traditional bistroA genuinely small bistro on a quiet street near the Bastille edge of the 4th, where the weekday lunch still lands at €13 and the zinc counter predates most of the neighbourhood's boutiques. Plat-du-jour French without apology.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 8:00–15:00 & 19:00–24:00; Sat–Sun lunch & dinner
- Maison Aleph€€ · PâtisserieMyriam Sabet's Levantine pastry shop in the Marais trades in nests of crisp kadaif angel-hair filled with creams — fig and cinnamon, pistachio and mastic. A compact counter to eat in, and benches around the Hôtel de Ville if it fills.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 11:00–19:00, Sat–Sun 10:00–19:00
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- ★ Le Grenier de Notre-Dame€€ · Vegetarian restaurantFrance's oldest vegetarian dining room, running since 1978 a few steps from the cathedral, and it has outlived most of the fashions that came after it. Lentil burgers crowned with Bleu d'Auvergne, gratins, and a mango-and-avocado tartare; vegan and gluten-free marked plainly.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon 12:00–14:30 & 18:30–22:00; Tue–Fri 12:00–23:00; Sat–Sun from 9:00
- Au P'tit Grec€ · Galette counterA takeaway window on the Mouffetard slope folding griddle galettes to order since 1981 — the complète, heavy with ham, egg and Gruyère, is the one people queue for.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily ~12:00–24:00
- Café de la Nouvelle Mairie€€ · Natural wine bistroA terrace on a quiet square behind the Panthéon, a low-intervention wine list, and a short blackboard of well-sourced plates. The Left Bank without the crowd.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Mon–Fri ~08:00–24:00; closed Sat–Sun
- La Rôtisserie d'Argent€€ · Rotisserie bistroThe Tour d'Argent's plain-spoken little sister across the quay, where the spit turns chickens and ducks within sight of Notre-Dame. The poulet rôti with its dripping-roasted potatoes is the whole point.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–14:15 & 19:00–22:30
- Le Buisson Ardent€€ · Traditional bistroA 1950s room with painted murals near the Jussieu campus, doing seasonal French cooking with more imagination than the price suggests. The weekday formula keeps the university crowd's tables full.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon–Sun lunch & dinner
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- ★ Kodawari Ramen (Yokochō)€€ · RamenAn Odéon ramen-ya dressed as a Tokyo back-alley, with house-made noodles and broth and a Bib Gourmand for value. The chicken-based shoyu and shio bowls do the heavy lifting, with gyoza alongside.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~11:45–23:00
- Bouillon Racine€€ · BouillonA 1906 Art Nouveau dining hall — carved wood, bevelled mirrors, listed as a monument — serving honest bouillon fare at prices that haven't chased the décor. The travers de porc de Picardie is the dependable order.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–23:00
- L'Avant Comptoir de la Mer€€ · Standing seafood wine barCamdeborde's standing seafood annexe: a zinc bar, a corridor, and fifty photo-posters strung overhead in lieu of a menu. The warm whelks with wasabi mayo and the razor clams marinière justify the elbowing.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily ~12:00–23:00
- Le Comptoir du Relais€€ · Bistro / brasserieThe counter that launched a thousand bistronomy imitations, now under Bruno Doucet but unchanged in character. By day it serves brasserie plates and country terrines without a reservation; by night it turns into a prix-fixe siege.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily ~12:00–23:00
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- Au Canon des Invalides€€ · Corner brasserieA genuine corner brasserie on rue Saint-Dominique where regulars outnumber tourists, the daily specials are sharp, and the aligot — sausage over cheese-pulled potato — arrives in a quantity that defeats most.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 07:00–23:00, Sat from 08:00, Sun to 17:00
- Café du March退 · Café / brasserieThe anchor café of the rue Cler market street, with one of the better sidewalk terraces in the Seventh and a board of plats du jour priced for people who actually live nearby.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 07:00–24:00, Sun to 20:00
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- 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.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily, breakfast through dinner
- 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.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 12:00–14:30 & 19:00–23:00
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- ★ Le Pantruche€€ · Neo-bistroFranck Baranger's small SoPi room that helped write the modern bistronomy playbook in 2011 and still earns a Michelin Bib. The Grand Marnier soufflé is the dessert everyone tells you to keep room for.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 12:30–14:30 & 19:30–22:30; closed weekends
- ★ Les Canailles Pigalle€€ · Bistro (Bib Gourmand)A 34-seat bistro on a quiet Pigalle side street — weekly menu, unpretentious service that still knows the wine list. The beef-tongue carpaccio and the rum baba you douse yourself are the house signatures.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & dinner; closed weekends
- Bouillon Chartier (Grands Boulevards)€ · BouillonAn 1896 dining hall with bowtied waiters who still write your order on the paper cloth. Pot-au-feu or steak tartare, for the old cheap-Paris ritual.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily ~11:30–24:00; no reservations
- Buvette€€ · All-day small platesJody Williams's tin-ceilinged South Pigalle room — a Paris transplant of the West Village original — pouring wine and turning out small plates from croissants at noon to coq au vin braised in a cocotte at night.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Mon–Thu 08:30–24:00, Sat–Sun from 10:00
- L'Office€€ · Neo-bistroA tight dining room near the Folies Bergère running a short market menu that changes with what came in — the sort of place the neighbourhood books for its own lunches rather than its visitors'.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Lunch Mon–Fri, dinner Mon–Sat; closed Sun
- Le Richer€€ · Neo-bistro (no reservations)Charles Compagnon's no-booking room across from its sibling L'Office, with a weekly-rewritten menu that swings from low-fuss to genuinely precise — mushroom ravioli in a shiitake-lemongrass broth one week, something else the next.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily; kitchen 12:00–14:30 & 19:30–22:30
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- ★ Chez Casimir€€ · Market neo-bistroA market-driven neo-bistro behind Gare du Nord, named Bistrot of the Year at the 2026 Pudlo awards — pot-au-feu, Paris-Brest.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily; Sunday brunch
- Jah Jah by Le Tricycle€ · Vegan Afro-CaribbeanA vegan Afro-Caribbean kitchen that grew out of three years selling hot dogs off a delivery tricycle. The daily bowls stack grains, legumes and sauce-slicked vegetables, flanked by cauliflower wings and the namesake hot dog.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Wed–Mon 12:00–15:00 & 19:00–22:00; closed Tue
- Krishna Bhavan€ · South Indian (vegetarian)Strictly vegetarian Tamil cooking on the Sri Lankan-Indian stretch of La Chapelle: paper-thin dosas the length of your forearm, thalis served in steel, chai in metal cups. Loud, fast, and priced so low it embarrasses the rest of the city.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily 11:30–21:00
- La Reine du Kashmir€ · Indian / PakistaniOne of the steadier kitchens in the covered Passage Brady, the glass-roofed alley of South Asian restaurants behind Strasbourg–Saint-Denis. Skip the touts working the passage and order the biryani or a tandoori-grill thali.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~12:00–23:00
- Le Petit Cambodge€ · Cambodian canteenA Cambodian canteen by the Canal Saint-Martin that built its name on one bowl: the bo bun.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily; no reservations
- Urfa Dürüm€ · Kurdish / Turkish dürümA counter doing chicken or kefta dürüm grilled to order and rolled in a thin galette with herbs and onion — among the best cheap eats on Faubourg Saint-Denis.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily ~11:30–24:00 (check ahead)
- 52 Faubourg Saint-Denis€€ · Neo-bistroA walk-in-only neo-bistro from the Compagnon group with a short rotating menu — the egg-yolk ravioli with ham and mushroom is the signature.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily, continuous service to midnight
- L'Avant Comptoir du Grouin€€ · Standing tapas & wineA standing tapas-and-wine counter near Gare du Nord — some fifty small plates and a natural-leaning list (it replaced La Pointe du Grouin in early 2026).✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily; no reservations
- Le Verre Vol退 · Natural-wine cave à mangerThe original Paris cave à manger on Rue de Lancry — four hundred natural wines, an open kitchen, a chalkboard.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~12:30–14:00 & 19:00–22:30
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- Bistrot du Peintre€€ · Art Nouveau brasserieA 1902 brasserie with a listed Art Nouveau interior of curved wood and etched glass, the kind of room that justifies a plainer plate. Come for the onion soup gratinée and a tarte Tatin, and for the fact that it serves through the day when neighbours have closed.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily, long service
- L'Homme Bleu€€ · Berber / MoroccanA Berber kitchen that has held this address since 1980, a handful of tables and semolina rolled three times. The royal couscous and the lamb tagine with dried fruit are the dishes that keep the regulars; it opens for dinner and runs late.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily evenings, kitchen into the night
- Dong Huong€ · VietnameseA big, plain Belleville canteen that has poured pho and bo-bun for 25 years. Order either; bring a group.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon, Wed–Sun ~12:00–22:30; closed Tue
- Le Servan€€ · BistronomieTatiana and Katia Levha run a corner room where French cooking picks up Filipino and Indonesian inflections without announcing them. The blood-sausage wontons and the raw sardines on brioche with smoked-chilli butter are the dishes people come back for.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Tue–Fri lunch & dinner, Mon dinner; closed weekends
- Pierre Sang in Oberkampf€€ · French-Korean (blind tasting)Pierre Sang Boyer cooks a no-menu, French-Korean tasting at an open counter and tells you what you ate only afterward. The €25 three-course lunch is a fair price for the format, with bo ssam and bibimbap motifs surfacing through the courses.⚑ Last confirmed 7 Sep 2026 · re-check pendingDaily lunch & dinner
- Waly Fay€€ · Senegalese / West AfricanA long-running West African dining room that introduced a good part of the 11th to Senegalese cooking, dim-lit and slightly dressed-up. Order the poulet yassa, chicken under lime and slow-cooked onion, or the n'dolé with its bitter-leaf and peanut sauce.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & dinner, Sun dinner
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- Chez Gladines (Butte-aux-Cailles)€ · Basque / Southwest FrenchVast Basque salads piled with potato, gizzards and Cantal, and hearty Southwest plates for big appetites, in the village streets of Butte-aux-Cailles.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily lunch & dinner; no reservations
- Les Tanneurs de la Butte€ · French bistroA bar-bistro on the cobbled spine of the Butte-aux-Cailles, dealing in the unembarrassed classics: tartare and fries, steak, saucisse with aligot. The room runs on regulars rather than passing trade.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~9am–2am
- Pho Bida Viet Nam€ · VietnameseA two-room canteen between Olympiades and Porte d'Ivry that locals treat as a reliable phở stop. The special with beef balls is the order; the bánh cuốn — steamed rice rolls, four to a plate — is the cheap aside worth adding.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Daily exc Mon eve, ~11:30–15:00 & 18:30–22:30
- Lao Lane Xang 2€€ · Lao / ThaiThe 13th's reference for Lao cooking alongside the Thai standards: crisp rice salad with fermented pork, lemongrass-heavy Laotian sausage, prawns with vermicelli in a ginger-garlic-chilli broth. Minimalist room, brisk service, a queue most nights.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon–Tue & Thu–Sun; closed Wed
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- Dat Viet€ · VietnameseA family Vietnamese near Denfert-Rochereau that cooks Hanoi street food without shortcuts — the bún chả, grilled pork over vermicelli, is the dish to order, and the kitchen makes a point of leaving out the MSG.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 12–14:30 & 19–22:30; closed Sun
- Aux Brochettes€€ · North African / couscousA Plaisance couscous house a few steps from Pernety, plating generous semolina with charcoal-grilled lamb, chicken and merguez. The couscous royal and the skewers are the house's whole argument, made well and in quantity.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 12–15 & 19–23; Sun lunch
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- Le Tipaza€ · North African / couscousA Berber couscous specialist running since 1984 near Boucicaut, semolina heaped under vegetables and charcoal-grilled meat, with tagines, bricks and chakchouka filling out the rest. Open seven days, which in the deep 15th counts for something.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily lunch & dinner
- Le Café du Commerce€€ · BrasserieA century-old three-tiered brasserie built around a glass-roofed atrium of greenery, working the repertoire — pike quenelle, the standards — at a scale and price the décor doesn't lead you to expect.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily 11:30–23:00, continuous
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- Le Bistrot des Vignes€€ · Neighbourhood bistroOn a side street in the village core of Passy, a bistro that means it about homemade: wild fish, French meat, skate under sauce vierge, steak with shallot confit and frites cut on the premises. The quiet hum of lunchtime locals is the surest review the 16th offers.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–14:30, 19:00–22:30
- Le Tournesol€€ · Bistro / brasserieBetween the Maison de la Radio and the river, a gilded Klimt-pastiche room turning out unfussy French home cooking: leeks vinaigrette, veal blanquette, an escalope milanaise hanging off the plate. Open every day, which near the Trocadéro at these prices is itself a small mercy.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–15:00, 19:30–22:30
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- ★ Bodrum€ · Turkish / kebabThe meat is veal breast, boned and cut and marinated in a spice blend the owners trace to a grandfather's kitchen in Turkey — no turkey filler, which is the usual giveaway. People will tell you it's the best kebab in Paris; it is at least very good.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 11:30–20:30
- Les Caves Populaires€ · Wine barA blue-collar wine bar where a glass of the house red costs less than a métro ticket and a mixed charcuterie-and-cheese board runs €11. You can take an old wooden chair and play chess all afternoon under the big front window.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 08:00–02:00, Sun from 11:00
- Menelik€ · EthiopianA long-running Ethiopian room in the back streets above the Batignolles, where the beyaynetu — an assortment of stews and pulses spread over sour injera — is meant to be torn into by hand, no cutlery. The €26 formula throws in an aperitif and a half-bottle of wine.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Daily, lunch & dinner
- La Table des Ternes€€ · Classic bistroA small, unreconstructed bistro near Porte Maillot doing the old repertoire properly: scallops, andouillette, a cheese board worth the detour and a cellar of decent bottles next door. The weekday set lunch is the sort of arithmetic the 17th rarely offers any more.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 08:00–22:30
- Montijo€€ · Spanish bodegaA bodega on the Batignolles edge with a stained-glass window full of ready tapas and a list of southern-grape natural wines from Spain, Italy and Greece. The pan con tomate and a creamy tortilla under mayo do most of the talking.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–15:00, 19:00–00:30
- Salicorne€€ · Market bistroCarol Pender cooked at Mokonuts before taking this narrow Batignolles room, where lunch is a handful of dishes weighted toward vegetables and shellfish and rewritten daily. The kitchen does more with a beetroot than most do with a rib of beef.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 12:00–14:00
- Schnock€€ · BistronomiqueÉmile Dayan works a tight market menu off a stone-walled room near the Ternes: a mushroom fricassée under a confit egg yolk, trout gravlax cut with Iranian black lemon and beet. The wine counter is the kind you can eat at alone without feeling stranded.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & dinner; Sun brunch
- Vinello€€ · Italian trattoria & wineRoberto Cubeta opened this trattoria-cum-cellar late in 2024 in the old Bigarrade premises, white tablecloths under raw stone. Vitello tonnato to start, tagliatelle with wild-boar ragù to follow, and a wine wall that runs from cheap-and-honest to ruinous.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & dinner
18e · Montmartre & Pigalle (4)District guide →
- Bouillon Pigalle€ · BouillonThe modern bouillon below Montmartre: oeuf mayo, bœuf bourguignon, île flottante, in big portions at small prices.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–24:00
- Keur Bour Guewel€ · Senegalese / West AfricanA Senegalese table in the thick of Château Rouge, working the canon — thiéboudienne, yassa, mafé — at a flat dozen euros a plate. From the evening it tips toward dibi and grilled meat, and the room stays open absurdly late.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily 13:00–02:00
- Le Relais Gascon€ · Southwest French / saladsThe Abbesses address that made its name on one thing: the giant salad, an outsized bowl finished with a layer of garlic-fried potatoes. The rare Montmartre plate that fills you for twelve euros.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–24:00
- L'Été en Pente Douce€€ · French bistroA former bakery at the foot of the Utrillo stairs on the quiet north flank of the Butte, still baking in the old bread oven and serving home-cooking that earns a local crowd: veal blanquette, quiche lorraine, a proper niçoise. The terrace catches both shade and sun.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily 12–15 & 19–23:45 (tea 15–19)
19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont (2)District guide →
- ★ Lao Siam€€ · Thai / LaoA Belleville institution since 1985, founded by a Thai-Lao family and still cooking from the long menu that made its name: green papaya with pickled crab, crisp rice squares in coconut-shrimp-pork sauce, whole fish steamed in banana leaf. The décor is plain; the kitchen is not.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily 12–15 & 19–23:30
- Le Pacifique€ · Cantonese / dim sumA Cantonese hold-out on rue de Belleville, open since 1983 and built for long tables, steamer baskets and rotisserie meats. The dim sum is the cheap pleasure — order several baskets and the bill stays low — and the kitchen runs past midnight.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily 11:00–01:30
20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant (2)District guide →
- La Cantine Chinoise€ · Chinese (Wenzhou)Two decades of Wenzhou cooking at the bottom of Belleville, run by Chef Lin and his son: hand-folded ravioli, beef noodle soup, baozi from the bakery counter. The plates land around six or seven euros, which is most of the appeal.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Mon & Wed–Sat 11:00–22:00; closed Tue
- Le Salon Miyanis€ · Algerian / Kabyle couscousA Kabyle kitchen on the Ménilmontant boulevard turning out couscous, tagines, chorba and grilled skewers at prices that read like a typo — the royal, with its three meats, lands under fifteen euros. Plain room, warm service, no pretense.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily 12:00–23:30, continuous
Things to do · 72 openAll things to do →
1er · Louvre & Les Halles (7)District guide →
- ★ Librairie Galignani€ · Historic bookshopThe oldest English-language bookshop on the Continent, trading on rue de Rivoli since 1856 and run by six generations of the same family. Dark 1930s shelving holds around fifty thousand titles under the arcade; the fine-arts section is what regulars come for.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 10am–7pm; closed Sun
- Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection€€ · Contemporary-art foundationFrançois Pinault dropped a nine-metre Tadao Ando concrete cylinder inside the old grain exchange, leaving the 1889 glass dome and its painted frieze of colonial commerce overhead — a juxtaposition the curators don't pretend to resolve.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Mon, Wed–Sun 11:00–19:00 (Fri to 21:00); closed Tue
- Galerie Véro-Dodat€ · Covered passageTwo pork butchers built this neoclassical run in 1826 and spent the money on it: marble columns, brass fittings, painted ceiling panels and a black-and-white tiled floor almost intact. Now home to Christian Louboutin's flagship and antique-instrument dealers.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon–Sat; closed Sun
- La Samaritaine€ · Department-store experienceReopened in 2021 after sixteen years dark, restored by LVMH. Frantz Jourdain's Art Nouveau hall keeps its wrought-iron staircase, enamelled-lava signage and the Jourdain peacock fresco — 115 metres of painted birds running below the glass roof.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Daily 10am–8pm
- Le Duc des Lombards€€ · Jazz clubTwo ticketed sets a night, 19:30 and 22:00, on a stage barely nine square metres, which keeps the room honest and the playing close. The booking runs to touring names.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Mon–Thu 19:30–midnight; Fri–Sat to 04:00; closed Sun
- Le Tout-Paris€€€ · Rooftop barThe 7th-floor bar at Cheval Blanc, a terrace panorama from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower over the Seine. The bar takes no reservations; a summer-only rooftop, Le Céleste, sits above it.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Bar daily; no reservations at the bar
- Saint-Eustache — Keith Haring chapel€ · Church with modern artworkThe vast Gothic-Renaissance church above Les Halles holds Keith Haring's last work — the 1990 bronze triptych 'The Life of Christ'. Its side chapel was restored and reopened to visitors on 25 June 2026, properly lit for the first time.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Daily ~09:30–19:00 (check for services)
2e · Bourse & Sentier (6)District guide →
- Passage des Panoramas€ · Covered passageThe oldest covered passage in Paris (1799): a glass-roofed gallery of stamp dealers and old engravers, now lined with good little bistros and wine bars. The rainy-afternoon move.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Passage daily ~6am–midnight; shops vary
- Galerie Vivienne€ · Covered passageThe grandest of the surviving 1820s arcades, built in 1823 between the Bourse and the Palais-Royal. A vaulted glass roof throws light onto floor mosaics laid by Italian craftsmen; the tenants run to rare-book dealers and a long-established tea room rather than chains.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily 8:30am–8:30pm
- Passage Choiseul€ · Covered passageAt 190 metres the longest covered passage in Paris, built 1826–27 and reopened in 2013 after restoration. Céline grew up above it and set part of 'Death on the Installment Plan' here. Art-supply shops, booksellers, ateliers, and the stage door of the Bouffes-Parisiens.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 8am–8pm; closed Sun
- Passage du Grand-Cerf€ · Covered passageBuilt in 1825 and, at nearly twelve metres, the tallest of the passages, with a wrought-iron-and-glass roof that floods the alley with light. It went over to makers rather than tourists: jewellers, lighting designers, leatherworkers and small studios, several working in view.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 8:30am–8pm; closed Sun
- Danico€€€ · Cocktail barReached through the Daroco restaurant off the 19th-century Galerie Vivienne, this is Nico de Soto's bar — globe-trotting flavour combinations executed with precision, his clarified and split-base drinks the things to order.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–2am
- O'Kari€€€ · Hammam (women only)A women-only Moroccan hammam near Montorgueil, sold as timed rituals — steam, black-soap gommage and rhassoul clay — by appointment rather than drop-in.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 10:00–20:00 (Thu to 21:00); closed Sun
3e · Haut Marais (5)District guide →
- ★ Little Red Door€€€ · Cocktail barA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–1am
- ★ The Cambridge Public House€€€ · Cocktail bar / pubAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Daily ~15:00–01:00
- Bisou€€ · Bespoke cocktail barNo drinks menu at all: tell the bartender your mood and they build a bespoke cocktail from seasonal produce. A second bar, Bisou Canal, sits on Quai de Jemmapes in the 10th.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily 5pm–2am
- Candelaria€€ · Speakeasy barOrder a taco at the counter of a narrow taquería, then push through the unmarked white door at the back into the room that opened the city's speakeasy era in 2011. The cocktails stay precise and agave-led.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Bar nightly until ~2am
- Ofr.€ · Bookshop & galleryAlexandre and Marie Thumerelle's bookshop in the Haut-Marais, the supply line for independent fashion, photography, design and art magazines from Seoul to São Paulo. A small gallery behind it runs rolling exhibitions and launches.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily 10am–8pm
4e · Le Marais & Île Saint-Louis (2)District guide →
- Le Studio des Parfums€€€ · Perfume atelierA Marais atelier where you blend and bottle your own fragrance from raw essences under a perfumer's eye, then leave with the formula kept on file for reorders.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~11:00–19:00, by reservation
- Les Bains du Marais€€€ · HammamA contemporary hammam off the rue des Blancs-Manteaux running a steam-and-sauna circuit on a fixed schedule of women-only, men-only and mixed sessions, with scrub and massage bookable on top.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Mon–Sun, mixed/women/men days vary — check booking page
5e · Latin Quarter (7)District guide →
- ★ Jardin des Plantes€ · Botanical gardenFrance's botanical garden, founded in 1626 as the royal medicinal beds and still run by the natural-history museum. The grounds are free: a long perspective of flowerbeds, an alpine garden, a rose garden, and a robinia planted in 1601, the oldest tree in Paris.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily ~7:30–20:00 summer, 8:00–17:30 winter
- Le Caveau de la Huchette€€ · Jazz cellarA vaulted 16th-century stone cellar run as a swing and bebop club since 1949, with a live band and a packed dance floor every night. Come to dance, not to watch.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Nightly from ~21:30 (to 2:30–5:30am)
- Le Champo€ · Repertory cinemaA two-screen repertory house on the rue des Écoles since 1938, run on retrospectives and ciné-clubs rather than new releases — a complete István Szabó cycle one season, the occasional seven-hour anime marathon with coffee and croissants at dawn.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily, screenings ~13:30–22:30
- Piscine Pontoise€ · Art Deco poolA 1933 Art Deco municipal pool with a 33-metre basin under a listed glass roof, swimmable from early morning through to a blue-lit nocturne that runs to midnight on weekdays.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Opens ~06:30; weekday nocturne ~20:15–midnight
- Shakespeare and Company€ · Independent bookshopGeorge Whitman's English-language bookshop, opened in 1951 opposite Notre-Dame. Narrow stairs, beds among the shelves where 'Tumbleweeds' have slept since the 1950s, a piano, a wishing well and a reading library upstairs — a bookshop and a stubborn anachronism at once.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Mon–Wed 10am–8pm, Thu–Sat to 9pm, Sun 12–7pm
- Hammam de la Mosquée de Paris€€ · HammamThe 1920s bathhouse attached to the Grande Mosquée runs a marble steam circuit under a starred dome, finished with a sugared black-soap scrub and mint tea in the tiled courtyard.✓ Verified open · 12 Sep 2026Daily ~10:00–21:00; men's/women's days alternate — verify
- Les Bouquinistes de la Seine€ · Open-air booksellersRoughly 900 wagon-green boxes bolted to the river parapets, worked by licensed second-hand dealers in books, old prints and postcards. Recognised in 2019 as French intangible heritage, and defended in 2024 when a plan to remove them for the Olympics was overruled.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~11am–sunset, weather depending
6e · Saint-Germain-des-Prés (2)District guide →
- Musée national Eugène-Delacroix€ · Artist house-museumDelacroix took this apartment and built the garden studio behind it in 1857 to be near the Saint-Sulpice murals he was finishing, and died here in 1863. The real draw is the green courtyard and the purpose-built atelier off it.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Mon, Wed–Sun, hours vary; closed Tue
- The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore€ · Independent bookshopPenelope Fletcher's English-language bookshop, facing the Luxembourg gardens — a tightly chosen Left Bank selection of literary fiction, poetry, small-press and food writing, with the bilingual children's offshoot next door.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Daily; hours vary
7e · Eiffel Tower & Invalides (2)District guide →
- Deyrolle€ · Curiosity shopA working taxidermy house from 1831 whose first-floor showroom is a genuine cabinet of curiosities — lions, bears, cases of iridescent butterflies — open to wander for free.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon 10:00–13:00 & 14:00–19:00, Tue–Sat 10:00–19:00; closed Sun
- Le Bon Marché€ · Department-store experienceThe world's first department store, opened 1852, with structural work attributed to Gustave Eiffel's firm. The draw now is the architecture: glazed roofs and Andrée Putman's crisscrossing 1989 escalators rising through the atrium. La Grande Épicerie next door is a food hall vast enough to browse like a gallery.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 10am–7:45pm, Sun 11am–7:45pm
8e · Champs-Élysées & Madeleine (1)District guide →
9e · South Pigalle & Opéra (4)District guide →
- Galeries Lafayette dome & rooftop€ · Department-store experienceWorth entering for the building rather than the goods. Jacques Gruber's 1912 stained-glass cupola hangs over the central hall; eight floors up, the open rooftop terrace gives a free 360-degree view from the Opéra to Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 10am–8:30pm, Sun 11am–8pm
- Musée Gustave Moreau€ · Artist house-museumMoreau converted his own townhouse into a museum before he died in 1898, stacking the upper floors into two great glass-walled studios crammed with thousands of Symbolist works, joined by a coiling wrought-iron spiral staircase that is the most photographed object in the building.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Mon, Wed–Sun 10:00–18:00; closed Tue
- Passage Verdeau€ · Covered passageThe 1847 northern end of the Panoramas-Jouffroy-Verdeau chain, and the quietest of the three. Its glass canopy lights a row of antiquarian booksellers and print dealers specialised down to the object: old cameras, postcards, engravings.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 7:30am–9pm, Sat–Sun to 8:30pm
- Musée du Parfum Fragonard€ · Free perfume museumA step from the Opéra Garnier, the Grasse house Fragonard fitted out a Napoléon III apartment as a perfume museum: copper stills, a wall of antique scent bottles, and a 'perfume organ' of labelled raw-material vials a nose would blend from.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 09:00–17:30; Sun to 16:30
10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord (4)District guide →
- Canal Saint-Martin towpath€ · WalkA Napoleon-era canal of 1825 climbing through nine locks and arched iron footbridges, where you can stand on a passerelle and watch boats rise and fall between basins. Tree-lined cobbled quais run either side before the water vanishes underground.✓ Verified open · 13 Sep 2026Public quais, all hours
- Le Louxor — Palais du Cinéma€ · Historic arthouse cinemaA 1921 cinema dressed as an Egyptian temple — gilded mosaics, pharaonic heads on the facade — that spent decades as a clothing shop and a nightclub before a 2013 restoration. Three screens of art-et-essai programming.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Daily, late morning to ~23:00
- Le Syndicat€€ · Speakeasy barThe storefront is papered over with torn gig posters; the only signal is a gold metallic curtain. Inside, every cocktail is built exclusively from French spirits — Armagnac, Cognac, Calvados, Chartreuse.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–2am
- Point Éphémère€ · Canal-side music & arts centreA former materials depot on the Canal Saint-Martin run since 2004 as a concert hall, studios and residency space, with a terrace straight onto the water. Amplified music most nights, plus dance, talks and temporary shows.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Mon–Sun, hours vary (often 12:00–02:00)
11e · Oberkampf & Bastille (4)District guide →
- Born Bad Record Shop€ · Record shopTrading since 1999 and the eastern anchor of Paris vinyl, near Bastille. The bins lean garage, punk, post-punk, cold wave, surf, soul and French 1960s, in rare originals and quality reissues, much of it on the shop's own label.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Mon–Sat 12pm–7:30pm; closed Sun
- Le Balajo€€ · Historic dance hallA 1936 musette hall on the old accordion street, the Balajo keeps its mirrored Deco room and still opens it on Monday afternoons for a thé dansant before the week tips into salsa classes and clubbing to dawn.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon 2–7pm; Thu 7:30pm–7am; Fri–Sat 11pm–7am
- Atelier des Lumières€€ · Immersive digital-art centreA 19th-century iron foundry where 140 projectors throw paintings across the walls and floor in roughly half-hour cycles, the programme rotating between Renaissance masters and modern names. A short, deliberately enveloping spectacle rather than a museum.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily ~10:00–18:00 (extended weekends)
- Moonshiner€€ · Speakeasy barA working pizzeria, Da Vito, fronts the operation. The cocktail room sits behind the walk-in fridge at the back, and you get in by pulling open the fridge doors — a 1920s register of leather, low light and a record player.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Sat ~6pm–2am
12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre (5)District guide →
- Coulée verte René-Dumont€ · Elevated walkNearly five kilometres of linear park along a railway viaduct closed in 1969 — the elevated walk that predates and prompted New York's High Line. The first stretch runs ten metres up over the brick arches of the Viaduc des Arts, whose vaults hold craft workshops.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily ~8:00 (9:00 weekends) to dusk
- Bois de Vincennes — Lac Daumesnil€ · Lake & woodlandThe largest of the lakes in the Bois de Vincennes, with two wooded islands joined by bridges. On the Île de Reuilly a folly temple stands above an artificial grotto and waterfall, with a Tibetan temple and the Grande Pagode nearby in the trees.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Woodland continuous; boats daily 10:00–20:00 (Feb–Nov)
- Le 100 ECS€ · Self-managed arts centre1,800 m² of former workshops near Place d'Aligre handed over to studios and stages without a selection committee — visual arts, theatre, photography, video for anyone who turns up. It runs the December 12×12 festival.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 09:00–21:00, Sat 10:00–18:00; closed Sun
- Rowboats on Lac Daumesnil€ · Rowboat hireHire an open wooden rowboat on the lake in the Bois de Vincennes and pull yourself out to its two islands — the same boating ritual Parisians have kept up for more than a century.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Daily exc ~15 Nov–15 Feb; weekends from 10:00
- Supersonic€ · Free live-rock clubA Bastille rock bar that has put on free concerts most nights since 2016, across two rooms and a mezzanine where a mock food-truck bar looks down on the stage. Three bands deep, the late set holding until six at weekends.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Mon–Thu 18:30–02:00; Fri–Sat to 06:00
13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles (3)District guide →
- Boulevard Vincent Auriol street-art walk€ · Open-air mural circuitUnder the elevated viaduct of métro line 6, the Itinerrance gallery has commissioned some two dozen tower-block-scale murals — Shepard Fairey's tricolour Marianne, D*Face's 25-metre 'Turncoat', Inti's secular Madonna — turning a stretch of the 13th into a wall museum.✓ Verified open · 13 Sep 2026Open street, 24/7
- Les Frigos€ · Artists' studios in a cold-storeA 1920s refrigerated railway warehouse squatted by artists in the 1980s, now roughly 80 studios behind corridors layered in graffiti, over 7,000 m² along the Seine. The ground-floor L'Aiguillage gallery shows year-round.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Gallery Mon–Sat 14:00–19:00; studios by appointment
- Parc Kellermann€ · ParkThe largest park in the 13th, terraced into the line of the old Thiers fortifications with 1930s level changes and a formal French garden up top. A working neighbourhood park — football pitch, tennis, an outdoor fitness circuit — rather than a tourist stop.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~7:00 to dusk; summer to ~21:30
14e · Montparnasse & Denfert (1)District guide →
15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle (2)District guide →
- Parc André-Citroën€ · ParkBuilt in the 1990s on the old Citroën factory site, a hard-edged garden of glasshouses, themed walled plots and a broad lawn sloping to the Seine. Computer-timed water jets cross a central terrace, and children stand in them all summer.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily; summer weekdays 7:00–21:30
- Petite Ceinture du 15e€ · Railway walkA green ribbon of abandoned 19th-century railway reclaimed as a wild-nature walk through cuttings and a 300-metre tunnel — quiet, and almost untouristed. A 2025 extension lengthened it.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Daily, daylight hours (seasonal)
16e · Trocadéro & Passy (3)District guide →
- Fondation Louis Vuitton€€ · Contemporary-art foundationFrank Gehry's twelve billowing glass sails sit in the Bois de Boulogne over a building whose terraces and water-staircase are half the visit. The architecture rewards the climb to the upper decks more than any single canvas does.✓ Verified open · 13 Sep 2026Mon, Wed–Thu 11:00–20:00; Fri to 21:00; Sat–Sun 10:00–20:00; closed Tue
- Musée de la Contrefaçon€ · Counterfeiting museumRun by the manufacturers' anti-fraud union, this mansion holds 500-odd seized fakes set beside the genuine article: counterfeit amphorae, forged banknotes, fake Rodin bronzes, knock-off bags, dud brake pads and counterfeit medicine. The pleasure is the side-by-side.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 14:00–17:30; closed weekends & August
- Parc de Bagatelle€ · Rose gardenAn English-style park inside the Bois de Boulogne, built around a château the Comte d'Artois put up in sixty-four days on a 1777 wager. The draw is the rose garden — some ten thousand bushes that peak in June — with waterfalls, grottoes and free-roaming peacocks.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~9:30–20:00 May–Aug, earlier off-season
18e · Montmartre & Pigalle (7)District guide →
- Musée de Montmartre — Jardins Renoir€€ · Local museum & artist studioThe oldest house on the Butte, where Renoir painted the 'Bal du Moulin de la Galette' in the garden and where Valadon and Utrillo later kept a studio-apartment, now restored. The terraced Renoir gardens look straight down onto the Clos Montmartre vineyard.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily 10:00–19:00; summer Wed to 22:00
- Studio 28€ · Historic cinema with garden barOpened in 1928 as the first cinema built for the avant-garde — Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or provoked a riot here in 1930. Chandeliers designed by Cocteau hang in the 170-seat hall, and a back garden runs as a bar.✓ Verified open · 8 Sep 2026Daily, afternoon to evening
- Arkose Montmartre€ · Bouldering gymA bouldering gym below Montmartre with ropeless walls graded for first-timers as well as regulars, plus a bar and yard for when your forearms give out.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily ~07:00–00:00
- Cimetière de Montmartre€ · CemeterySunk into a former gypsum quarry below the streets, with the iron Pont Caulaincourt carried straight over the graves. Zola, Degas, Stendhal and Berlioz lie here; Dalida's flowered bust draws a daily crowd. Quieter and more wooded than Père-Lachaise, and full of cats.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 8:00–18:00, Sat from 8:30, Sun from 9:00; 17:30 winter
- La REcyclerie€ · Eco arts spaceA former Petite Ceinture station turned eco-hub, with an urban farm, a repair workshop and a canteen on the old platform — and hundreds of cheap or free events a year.✓ Verified open · 14 Sep 2026Daily into the evening; weekend nights to ~2am
- Les Puces de Paris Saint-Ouen€ · Flea marketThe largest antiques flea market in the world — a dozen labyrinthine sub-markets of vintage furniture, art and curiosities just north of the 18th. Go to get lost, and to haggle.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Sat 9–18, Sun 10–18, Mon 11–17; closed Tue–Thu
- Marché Saint-Pierre€ · Fabric marketSeven floors of fabric at the foot of the Sacré-Cœur steps, the trade descendant of a 1920s Montmartre barrow-man. Couturiers, set decorators and students come for wholesale-priced cottons, silks and remnants; the surrounding streets hold a dozen rival cloth houses.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Fri 10am–6pm, Sat to 7pm; closed Sun
19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont (5)District guide →
- Parc des Buttes-Chaumont€ · ParkAlphand built this in 1867 out of a worked-out gypsum quarry: a fifty-metre cliff, a suspension footbridge over a lake, grottoes hung with cast-concrete stalactites, and the Temple de la Sibylle on the island above the water.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~7:00–22:00 summer; shorter in winter
- Butte Bergeyre€ · ViewpointFive streets on a hundred-metre hump, laid out in the 1920s over a defunct stadium and reached by one road and a staircase. From the railing on Rue Georges-Lardennois the rooftops fall to Sacré-Cœur, with a small municipal vineyard directly below.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Public streets, all hours
- Canauxrama Canal Saint-Martin cruise€€ · Canal cruiseA flat-bottomed boat works its way along Canal Saint-Martin through nine locks, two swing bridges and the long vaulted tunnel beneath Bastille — the slow, mechanical opposite of a Seine sightseeing loop.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Several daily departures spring–autumn
- Combat€€ · Cocktail barA bright, women-led Belleville cocktail bar — inventive but unfussy drinks, windows that fold open over the sloping pavement in summer. A local's room, not a set-piece.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily ~18:00–2am (check Tue)
- Parc de la Villette€ · ParkFifty-five hectares on the old cattle-market grounds, scored by the Canal de l'Ourcq and studded with Tschumi's red steel follies. The science museum, the mirrored Géode and the Philharmonie share the lawns where the free open-air film festival runs in July and August.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily; no access 1:00–6:00
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- Parc de Belleville€ · ViewpointOne of the highest parks in Paris, with a hilltop belvedere that opens across the rooftops to the Eiffel Tower — a locals' sunset spot above terraced gardens, with Belleville bars at the gate.✓ Verified open · 20 Sep 2026Daily ~8am–dusk (to ~21:30 in summer)
- Rue Dénoyez€ · Street-art laneA short Belleville lane repainted continuously for years — walls, shutters and shopfronts layered in spray paint, with someone usually at work on the next piece. The live, changeable half rather than a preserved set.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Open street, 24/7
How this list is built: every pick on par.is carries the hours its venue posts, and a pick appears here only when those hours name Monday as a day it trades. 11 of the 216 eat and do picks write their hours in a way that names no day at all (“Check ahead”, “Concert nights”) — they are left off every day page rather than guessed onto one. Holidays, August closures and the odd private hire are not in any venue's posted line, so ring ahead for anything you are crossing the city for.