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Eating Out in Paris – Where to Get a Great Meal. Le Relais Gascon, Montmartre. Copyright © 2023 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Eating Out in Paris – Where to Get a Great Meal

In part one of our Eating Out in Paris posts, I looked at why it’s so hard to get a good meal in Paris. This time, Lara and I are going to review some of the places we ate at during our two-week stay so you know where you can get a good meal.

We’re only recommending places we ate at, and on this trip we did everything from Michelin three-star restaurants to our local cantine, a casual bar-cum-bistro next to our apartment building. And that’s exactly what is great about eating in Paris, that the city offers up the full gamut of dining experiences – casual cafés and bars, bistros, brasseries, creative and/or quality restaurants, and fine dining restaurants – so we’ve included something from each category. Apart from a few spots, our eating out in Paris selection is fairly locally focussed in the 18th and 10th quartiers in keeping with our local theme.

Eating Out in Paris – Where to Get a Great Meal

Pierre Gagnaire

Three-star Michelin creative fine dining
Why? Gagnaire is the epitome of the creative, intellectual Parisian chef. His food combinations are wildly original and his three Michelin stars well deserved.
Terence says: There’s something about Pierre’s food that always intrigues me. It doesn’t always work for me flavour combination-wise, so if you’re after a safe three-star meal head to Alain Ducasse. But when I’m at Ducasse, I’m wondering what plates Pierre’s putting together.
Lara says: Easily the most enjoyable Paris dining experience for me – one of the most satisfying, while still being one of the most adventurous. The mascarpone soufflé with morels and new onions was one of the most decadent dishes I’ve ever had. Wine was exquisite and service impeccable.
Delish dish: Le Grand Dessert is a favourite of everyone, but the savoury star plate is a moveable feast!
Address: Hôtel Balzac 6 rue Balzac, 75008, Tel: 01 58 36 12 50

Fogon

One-star Michelin, contemporary
Why? Fogon is the closest thing Paris has to the bistronomic restaurants that exemplify Barcelona’s contemporary dining scene, which we consider to be the best in the world.
Terence says: It goes against our remit of eating locally to have Spanish in Paris, but we just kept hearing too many good things about Fogon from people we trust to ignore it. We’d eaten here years ago (at their previous address), but it’s more sophisticated now. A well-balanced and well-weighted menu, excellent staff who know their stuff, and nearly every dish was greeted with ‘wow’!
Lara says: Fogon was fantastic! Comes a close second to Gagnaire as far as creativity and quality goes, but the relaxed atmosphere and informal (albeit brilliant) service make it more fun.
Delish dish: Everything on the 11-course Tapas Menu (and it’s only 49 euros!) but if we had to choose one: fresh sardines in a sea urchin sauce rolled in crunchy lettuce like Vietnamese dish gỏi cuốn.
Address: 45 Quai des Grands Augustins, 75006, Tel: 01 43 54 31 33

Ze Kitchen Galerie

One-star Michelin, contemporary
Why?
Heavily South-East Asian-influenced cuisine served up in a heavily hyped restaurant.
Terence says: Some fine cooking here, marred by a couple of mismatched and forced flavours trying too hard to make ‘fusion’ work. Was impressed by how thoroughly the kitchen was cleaned, not impressed I had to witness chefs standing on benches doing it. Tables are waaaaaay too close together. Lara will say she loved it because she’s missing Asian food!
Lara says: I loved it because it was one of the best meals I’d had since we were in Barcelona, up there with Gagnaire and Fogon: light, refined, creative cuisine that surprises with every mouthful. How can you go wrong with that?
Delish dish: Wagyu a la plancha, cooked 32 hours, alone makes the restaurant worth returning to.
Address: 4 Rue des Grands Augustins, 75006, Tel: 01 44 32 00 32

La Mascotte

Seafood-focussed brasserie – a local Montmartre place
Why?
The seafood. In the colder months they have excellent oysters, which they shuck out front, and enormous seafood platters year-round.
Terence says: Not as good as we were lead to believe, but every time we walked past we still wanted to drop in for some oysters. I liked the relaxed, local vibe.
Lara says: Oysters were sublime (range and quality), although my fish was disappointing and red mullet is my favourite, and I prefer to mix my own tartare (too much mustard for my liking).
Delish dish: Anything served up by the fish guy out front who shucks the oysters!
Address: 52 Rue des Abbesses, 75018, Tel: 01 46 06 28 15

Miroir

Bistro – a local Montmartre place
Why?
Hyped by the expats as a good-value local bistro. Apparently Montmartre doesn’t have any.
Terence says: Given that the staff have attitude, the food was a surprise – it’s vin ordinaire on a plate. Short menu but at those prices there’s no excuse for using the same vegetables and sauce on two different main courses. That’s just lazy. Given the apparent pedigree of the chefs, you have to wonder what’s going on. One of the lesser experiences of eating out in Paris.
Lara says: Not sure if I was angrier about the average food or that they’d told us they only had one table left at 7.30pm yet we sat in an empty restaurant for an hour. Didn’t like that only foreigners (all booked in early) were seated out back but locals seated in the front room. The spaces had very different vibes as a result. The staff coats, backpacks and motorcycle helmets piled high on the tables in our room showed a disregard for paying customers.
Delish dish: None, sadly.
Address: 91 Rue des Martyrs, 75018 Tel: 01 42 62 16 03

Le Relais Gascon

Bistro – a local Montmartre place
Why?
Well it was two doors up from our apartment, always busy with locals, and those salads are legendary!
Terence says:
Saved our sanity and stomachs when we arrived in Paris at 11.30pm on a Sunday night! Locals call it their cantine, the place you go when you want a fuss-free meal in a hurry. Had a pretty decent steak here, but those salads! To have this downstairs is the epitome of how fun it is to be eating out in Paris.
Lara says: Love those colossal crazy salads – the combination of crisp fresh greens and greasy garlicky potatoes! – don’t know how the locals finish them, they’re so big, but they do. Must be the only meal they’re having that day.
Delish dish: It’s all about the salads. Elsewhere you might say “ohh, I had a salad for lunch, I’m soooo healthy” but here you’ve been knee-deep in duck fat, pork belly and potatoes.
Address: 6 Rue des Abbesses, 75018, Tel: 01 42 52 11 11

Un Zebra a Montmartre

Café – a local Montmartre place
Why?
Unpretentious, fun, neighbourhood café with mainly local clientele.
Terence says: Wouldn’t come here for the food alone but it’s café fare that’s affordable, with a cool soundtrack, and cooler regulars.
Lara says: Their gooey, roasted Camembert was sublime, but I like the atmosphere more than anything: the laidback staff who like to dance behind the bar and the fascinating mix of boho locals who bag the pavement tables make for entertaining people-watching.
Delish dish: Locals love the roasted Camembert.
Address: 38 Rue Lepic, 75018, Tel: 01 42 23 97 80

Le Café Qui Parle

Café – a local Montmartre place
Why?
Has a reputation for trying harder than most cafés in the area to produce quality food.
Terence says: Not as inventive as I was led to believe (but what’s new about that in Paris?). Staff knocked one of our glasses off the table, which smashed on the floor, forgot our wine, forgot our dessert, and started eating at the table opposite while we wondered where dessert was. Food was okay – the stuff that arrived…
Lara says: I liked the food here, although it definitely wasn’t as creative as we’d read. Liked the jazzy soundtrack and casual elegance of the place – although staff were too casual and need a boot up the backsides.
Delish dish: Beef carpaccio with a Caesar-like salad.
Address: 24 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018, Tel: 01 46 06 06 88

Le Comptoir du Relais

Much-hyped bistro
Why?
A much-hyped bistro with a much-hyped owner-chef.
Terence says: Much has been made of the fixed, ever-changing, multi-course dinner menu, but we went for lunch on a whim. Loved the firm, fresh asparagus, though not the unnecessary sauce. Cochon de lait rôti, pork with a delightful crisp skin and side of purée à la moutarde (mash with mustard) was brilliant. Enjoyed it so much I made it as a side for my Côte de Bœuf. Staff were off-hand, but their hands were busy chopping corners off wine cask ‘bladders’ (guts of ‘wine in a box’) for their house wine. Urgh. Despite the pork, you can’t be average at lunch and creative at dinner, as Lara will attest.
Lara says: Sauce on the asparagus tasted like it came out of a bottle, while salade Niçoise tasted like it came out of a tin. Dreadful. Neighbouring table hardly touched their food. Don’t believe this place can offer a completely different experience at dinner. If they do, then they need to fire the Chef and staff who run the place during the day.
Delish dish: Cochon de lait rôti.
Address: 6 Carrefour de l’Odéon, 75006, Tel: 01 44 27 07 97

L’Office

Med-style bistro
Why?
Recommended to us by the chef-owner of the much-hyped Frenchie, which we couldn’t get into because it’s booked weeks in advance for lunch and months ahead for dinner. C’est la vie.
Terence says: Not quite sure where this one fits in the Paris dining landscape and where it’s going as the Alsatian owner-chef has moved to Brussels and current chef is English. Food and service were impeccable – three courses of refined Mediterranean bistro cooking.
Lara says: Loved this meal: asparagus, slow-cooked egg and fresh goats cheese was heavenly, Pyrenean trout tartare with sorrel and bloody orange was a tad Tetsuya, while the Swordfish with fregola, squid and clams was scrummy. Nice wines and friendly service topped it off.
Delish dish: A moist Guinea fowl breast, artichoke and pea caponata.
Address: 3 Rue Richer, 75009, Tel: 01 47 70 67 31

La Table D’Eugene

Bistro – a local Montmartre place
Why?
Recommended by the guys at Cook’n With Class, this is where modern Parisian bistro food really gets a rebirth in Montmartre.
Terence says: Really didn’t put a foot wrong. A little bit of flash, but solid cooking. Great staff. Just the kind of modern bistro meal you want in Paris but rarely get. This is one of the best eating out in Paris experiences we’ve had. Ever.
Lara says: Another favourite of mine: loved the rich morel mushrooms and I’m not usually a fan of cod but it was clever as well as incredible-tasting! Service was excellent too.
Delish dish: The cod cooked three ways is a wonderful expression of three different styles of doing that dish: stuffed in a red pepper Iberian-style, steamed cod with spinach, and fried croquette-inspired cod.
Address: 18 Rue Eugène Sue, 75018, Tel 01 42 55 61 64

Mon Oncle

Bistro/wine bar – a local Montmartre place
Why?
A fave of many a Montmartre local for it’s unpretentious food and casual ambiance.
Terence says: It was so busy we had to take a second sitting on a weeknight! A brilliant, bright asparagus soup and Côte de Bœuf that was cooked to perfection were the highlights. Good wines too.
Lara says: There’s a reason there’s Côte de Bœuf on every table. It is special. But I loved the atmosphere as much as the food. Neighbourhood eateries don’t get much more local than this, with warm staff, friendly patrons and fun music. The fact that they’re still serving food at 1am says a lot – especially in Paris!
Delish dish: You must order the Côte de Bœuf.
Address: 3 rue Durantin, 75018, Tel 01 42 51 21 48

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Terence Carter is an editorial food and travel photographer and infrequent travel writer with a love of photographing people, places and plates of food. After living in the Middle East for a dozen years, he settled in South-East Asia a dozen years ago with his wife, travel and food writer and sometime magazine editor Lara Dunston.

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  1. Edna says

    February 15, 2012 at 1:40 am

    Love that there’s so many local Montmartre places listed — I just moved to Paris last month and love heading up there. Can’t wait to try some of these places!

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Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check o Still looking for Christmas cooking inspo? Check out our seafood recipe collection, especially if you celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve with a fish focused meal in the Southern Italian tradition, transformed by Italian-Americans into the Feast of the Seven Fishes, or like Australians, who celebrate Christmas in the sweltering summer, feast on seafood for Christmas Day lunch, we’ve got lots of easy seafood recipes for you.

Our recipes include a classic prawn cocktail, blini with smoked salmon, a ceviche-style appetiser, and devilled eggs with caviar. We’ve also got recipes for fish soup, seafood pies and pastas, salmon tray bake, and crispy salmon with creamy mashed potatoes.

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If you’re still looking for food inspo for Chris If you’re still looking for food inspo for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day meals, my smoked salmon ‘carpaccio’ recipe is one of dozens of recipes in this compilation of our best Christmas recipes (link below). 

The Christmas recipe compilation includes collections of our best Christmas breakfast recipes, best Christmas brunch recipes, best Christmas starter recipes, best Christmas cocktails, best Christmas dessert recipes, and homemade edible Christmas gifts and more.

My smoked salmon carpaccio recipe makes an easy elegant appetiser that’s made in minutes. If you’re having guests over, you can make the dish ahead by assembling the salmon, capers and pickled onions, and refrigerate it, then pour on the dressing just before serving. 

Provide toasted baguette slices and bowls of additional capers, pickles and dressing, so guests can customise their carpaccio. And open the bubbly!

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If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I sh If you haven’t visited our site in a while, I shared a collection of recipes for homemade edible Christmas gifts — for condiments, hot sauces, chilli oils, a whole array of pickles, spice blends, chilli salt, furakake seasoning, and spicy snacks, such as our Cambodian and Vietnamese roasted peanuts. 

I love giving homemade edibles as gifts as much as I love receiving them. Who wouldn’t appreciate jars filled with their favourite chilli oils, hot sauces, piquant pickles, and spicy peanuts that loved-ones have taken the time to make? 

Aside from the gesture and affordability of gifting homemade edibles, you’re minimising waste. You can use recycled jars or if buying new mason jars or clip-top Kilner jars, you know they’ll get repurposed.

No need for wrapping, just attach some Christmas baubles or tinsel to the lid. I used squares of Cambodian kramas (cotton scarves), which can be repurposed as napkins or drink coasters, and tied a ribbon or two around the lids, and attached last year’s Christmas tree decorations to some.

You’ll find the recipes here: https://grantourismotravels.com/homemade-edible-christmas-gifts/ (link in bio if you’re seeing this on IG)

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This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’ This crab omelette is a decadent eggs dish that’s perfect if you’re just back from the fish markets armed with luxurious fresh crab meat. It’s a little sweet, a little spicy, and very, very moreish.

Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

And do browse our Weekend Eggs archives for further eggspiration (sorry). We have hundreds of egg recipes from the 13 year-old series of recipes for quintessential egg dishes from around the world, which we started on our 2010 year-long global grand tour focused on slow, local and experiential travel. 

We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angko I’m late to share this, but a few days ago Angkor Archaeological Park, home to stupendous Angkor Wat, pictured, celebrated 30 years of its UNESCO World Heritage listing. 

That’s as good an excuse as any to put this magnificent, sprawling archaeological site on your travel list this year.

While riverside Siem Reap, your base for exploring Angkor is bustling once more, there are still nowhere near the visitors of the last busy high season months of December-January 2018-2019 when there were 290,000 visitors. 

Last month there were just 55,000 visitors and December feels a little quieter. A tour guide friend said there were about 150 people at Angkor Wat for sunrise a few days ago.

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Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky Our soy ginger chicken recipe will make you sticky, flavourful and succulent chicken thighs that are fantastic with steamed rice, Chinese greens or a salad, such as a Southeast Asian slaw. 

The chicken can be marinated for up to 24 hours before cooking, which ensures it’s packed with flavour, then it can be cooked on a barbecue or in a pan.

Terence’s soy ginger chicken recipe is one of our favourite recipes for a quick and easy meal. I love the sound of the sizzling thighs in the pan, and the warming aromas wafting through the apartment. 

It’s amazing how such flavourful juicy chicken thighs come from such a quick and easy recipe.

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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