Where to eat · Bistros & brasseries · 42 picks · 18 districts

Bistros and brasseries in Paris

Classic bistros, neo-bistros, the old bouillons and the corner brasseries. Every pick is re-checked for continued operation and grouped by district, so you can eat near where you already are.

Last re-checked 22 Sep 2026 · all where to eat → · full ledger →

★Essentials — start here (5)

• ★ Brigade du Tigre€€ · Pan-Asian neo-bistro · 10eA pan-Asian neo-bistro of sharing plates with a Michelin Bib Gourmand — black-sesame onigiri with aged Comté, hoisin-glazed beef cheek.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Lunch & dinner; check aheadBib Gourmand
• ★ 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 & 19:00–23:30Critics' pickLong-running
• ★ 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 weekendsBib Gourmand
• ★ 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 weekendsBib Gourmand
• ★ 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 brunchAward-winner

2e · Bourse & Sentier (2)District guide →

• 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
• 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

3e · Haut Marais (1)District guide →

• ★ 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 & 19:00–23:30Critics' pickLong-running

4e · Le Marais & Île Saint-Louis (2)District guide →

• 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 22:30Long-running
• 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

5e · Latin Quarter (3)District guide →

• 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

6e · Saint-Germain-des-Prés (2)District guide →

• 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 12:00–23:00Long-running
• 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

7e · Eiffel Tower & Invalides (2)District guide →

• 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

8e · Champs-Élysées & Madeleine (2)District guide →

• 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

9e · South Pigalle & Opéra (5)District guide →

• ★ 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 weekendsBib Gourmand
• ★ 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 weekendsBib Gourmand
• 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 reservationsLong-running
• 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

10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord (5)District guide →

• ★ Brigade du Tigre€€ · Pan-Asian neo-bistroA pan-Asian neo-bistro of sharing plates with a Michelin Bib Gourmand — black-sesame onigiri with aged Comté, hoisin-glazed beef cheek.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Lunch & dinner; check aheadBib Gourmand
• ★ 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 brunchAward-winner
• 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
• Les Arlots€€ · Bistro & natural wineA handful of tables near Gare du Nord built around one dish: the saucisse-purée, herb sausage over silky mash. Book, or don't get in.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Lunch & dinner; closed Sun–Mon; reserve
• Pouliche€€ · Neo-bistroAmandine Chaignot's dining room trades on shared starters and a precise seasonal main, and at weekday lunch it stays inside the €30 line that her dinner menu abandons. Sundays bring a roast chicken carved at the table.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Tue–Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch; closed Mon

11e · Oberkampf & Bastille (4)District guide →

• 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 serviceLong-running
• Le Repaire de Cartouche€€ · Classic bistro / gameRodolphe Paquin has cooked here since 1997 and the room still runs on terrines, game and the kind of pâté en croûte that takes a day to build. The €20 lunch is the way in; in autumn the chalkboard turns to hare and venison.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Tue–Sat lunch & dinner; closed Sun–MonLong-running
• Le Bistrot Paul Bert€€ · Classic Parisian bistroThe blackboard-and-banquette bistro that a generation of imitators has been chasing, still turning out steak frites with pepper sauce and a Paris-Brest the size of a discus. The à la carte climbs, so the ~€19 lunch formule is how you eat here without spending.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Tue–Sat lunch & dinner; closed Sun–Mon
• 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

12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre (1)District guide →

• L'Ébauchoir€€ · French bistroA genuine quartier bistro behind the Aligre market, working through trout gravlax, slow lamb shoulder and a chocolate torte that regulars treat as non-negotiable. The carte rewrites itself often; the lunch deal is where the value sits.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Tue–Sat lunch & dinner, Mon dinner; closed Sun

13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles (1)District guide →

• 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

15e · Vaugirard & Beaugrenelle (1)District guide →

• 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

16e · Trocadéro & Passy (2)District guide →

• 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

17e · Batignolles & Monceau (4)District guide →

• Coretta€€ · Modern French bistroBeatriz Gonzalez (ex-Senderens) cooks precise, unfussy modern French food in a room looking onto the Martin Luther King park. Worth catching at lunch before the Michelin inspectors finish the job and the prices follow.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Tue–Sat 12:30–14:00, 19:30–22:00
• 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
• 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 · 22 Sep 2026Mon–Fri lunch & dinner; Sun brunch

18e · Montmartre & Pigalle (2)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
• 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 (1)District guide →

• Le Cadoret€€ · Neo-bistro & all-day caféA Belleville corner café by day, a serious kitchen by night — revived in 2024–25 under chef Alice Neman, with a great-value chalkboard lunch.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Tue–Sat from ~8:30; closed Sun–Mon

20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant (2)District guide →

• Le Baratin€€ · Bistro & natural wineRaquel Carena's daily blackboard — offal, fish, sweet-sour edges — helped invent Paris bistronomy and still pulls chefs on their nights off. The natural-wine list runs deep.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Lunch Tue–Fri, dinner Tue–Sat; closed Sun–Mon
• Le Jourdain€€ · Neo-bistroA tight, crowded neo-bistro between the Buttes-Chaumont and Jourdain, doing a market-driven plat at lunch and turning to small seafood plates and natural wine at night. The wine list is the rare one priced so the second bottle still feels reasonable.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Tue–Sat 12:00–23:00; closed Sun–Mon