1st arrondissement restaurants

KEI

Kei's culinary creativity will stimulate your gustative senses and emotions.

After seven years working with the chef Alain Ducasse, who was awarded with 3-stars Michelin, at the Plaza Athenee restaurant, Kei takes over Gerard Besson’s restaurant and gives us the pleasure to enjoy his culinary touch.
Each of the creative dishes offers an opportunity to discover a wonderfully creative, unique and sophisticated cuisine.

Address: 5 Rue Coq Héron, 75001 Paris
Opening hours: Closed Sunday, Monday and Thursday lunch
☎+33 1 4233 1474
Email: reservationkei@gmail.com
Find out more on their website or Facebook!

Pirouette

Pirouette can be defined as a « gastronomic bistro ». On the bistro side for its prices and friendliness, while clearly gastronomic for its top level cookery.

Address: 5 Rue Mondétour, 75001 Paris
Nearest transport: Etienne Marcel (4)
Opening hours: Closed Sunday; open Monday-Saturday for lunch and dinner
☎ 01 40 26 47 81
Style of cuisine: Modern French
Find out more about the restaurant on Oenolis.

Fish Club

Olivier Le Bon and his team have moved to a South American angle for their next project, the Fish Club, a speakeasy-style bar and restaurant specializing in fish and seafood lodged in a former butcher’s shop.

Address: 58 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 75001 Paris
Opening hours: Everyday 6pm-2am
Transport: Métro Etienne Marcel
☎ +33 1 40 26 68 75
Find out more on the Facebook page!

Ballroom

Le Ballroom, another venture from the trio behind the Experimental Cocktail Club, beneath the Beefclub restaurant. Here, well beyond signal range, you'll find red brick walls, an ornate tiled ceiling and a gleaming collection of spirits and liqueurs, which all create the perfect setting for this dimly-lit speakeasy-style cocktail bar. Waistcoat-wearing bartenders serve up drinks and banter at the comptoir, or there are Chesterfield sofas at candlelit tables for more intimacy.

Address: 58 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 75001 Paris
Opening hours: Mon-Sat 7pm-2am
Transport: Métro: Châtelet or Les Halles
☎ 09 52 52 89 34
More information on the website of the Beefclub!

Beef Club

Address: 58 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 75001 Paris
Opening hours: Open every day for dinner only
Nearest transport: Les Halles (4), Étienne Marcel (4)
☎+33 9 54 37 13 65 (Walk-ins Welcome)
Style of cuisine: Steak joint, classic French
More information on the website!

Uma

In Guillaume Sudre’s handsome bistro, chef Lucas Felzine (who used to work at L’Arpège and Ze Kitchen Galerie) offers a French ans Japanese cuisine.

Address: 7 Rue du 29 Juillet, 75001 Paris
☎ +33 1 40 15 08 15
For more information visit the website!

Dame de Pic

Anne-Sophie Pic's Parisian restaurant was opened in 2012 and is a stone's throw from the Louvre. The Valence-born chef's feeling for flavours is easily recognisable, as is the precision of her creations and her ability to combine unexpected ingredients. Enjoy variations based on the leitmotiv of flavours and aromas.

Address: 20 Rue du Louvre, 75001 Pari
☎ +33142604040
Email: contact@ladamedepic.fr
For more information, visit the website!

Claus

As the city’s first venue devoted solely to the most important meal of the day, Claus is a very welcome opening. A tearoom squeezed between luxury boutiques and offices, you can take your breakfast away or snuggle into the cosy salon. There’s even a terracotta-tiled boutique deli with organic granola bars, fruit juices, teas and jams from local producers in the Haute-Savoie, biscuits, scones, patisserie, cookies and everything else needed for a royal breakfast.

Address: 14 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 75001 Paris
☎ +33 1 42 33 55 10
Email: contact@clausparis.com
More information on the website!

Yam'Tcha

Universally praised Franco-Chinois fare from Adeline Grattard, and all but impossible to book. The restaurant moved to a new location at 121 rue saint Honoré, 75001 in June 2015 and converted their old space at 4 rue Sauval into a tea salon and to-go window selling delicious steamed buns (bao).

Address: 121 rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris
Nearest transport: Louvre-Rivoli (1), Les Halles (4), Châtelet – Les Halles (1, 4, 7, 11, 14)
Opening hours: Closed Sunday & Monday; Open Tuesday for dinner only; Open Wednesday-Saturday for lunch and dinner
☎ 01 40 26 08 07 (Book many weeks in advance)
Style of cuisine: fusion, hot cuisine
For more information, visit the website!

Carré des Feuillants

Alain Dutournier creates the perfect alliance between Haute Cuisine and the discreet flavors of the Southwest at this quiet, calm affair with an excellent wine list, midway between the Place Vendôme and the Tuileries; the modern interior is graced by contemporary art as well as impeccable, stylish servers.

Address: 14 Rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris
☎ +33 1 42 86 82 82
More information on the website!

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