This is my own personal list – it is organised by area (ex: Le Marais, Quartier Latin) and by district (arrondissement)
Café/ Restaurants – places to eat and also enjoy a café in RED
Cafés – to sit at a terrace and have coffee BUE
Restaurants – sit down evening meal in GREEN (these are slightly more upscale)
Bars – places to have a drink at a terrasse or go out to meet other Parisians are in ORANGE
Near the Panthéon (walking distance)
Café de la nouvelle Mairie tasty food – busy bustling parisian café – 19 Rue des Fossés Saint-Jacques
Le Petit Café: tasty food – nice quiet terrasse – friendly staff – 6 rue Descartes
La Crêperie: tasty – affordable crêpes – rue soufflot / rue St Jacques
Café l’Escritoire – place de la Sorbonne
Café le Rostand – facing the Jardin du Luxembourg
La Montagne: nice place to sit for beer or coffee behind rue Mouffetard – quiet road
The Marais:
Le Temps des Cerises authentic décor – family held restaurant (off blvrd Henri IV – closest metro Sully Morland) 31 rue de la Cerisaie
Chez Camille : in the heart of the marais – typical parisian brasserie – always busy – 24 rue des Francs Bourgeois
Le Fumoir (closer to the Louvre) refined, stylish, expensive
Café Zimmer (place du Chatelet) – brasserie
Café Sarah Bernardt (place du Chatelet) – brasserie
Near Bastille:
Le Tabarin: Parisian Bistrot – tasty French food – friendly staff (3, rue du Pasteur Wagner – off boulevard Beaumarchais)
Café de l’Industrie – French café – rustic french decors – vibrant atmosphere
Bottom of Rue Mouffetard/Gobelins (5th & 13th)
Cave La Bourgogne French Brasserie – good food – friendly staff
Chez Léa cosy – relaxed atmosphere – good food and coffee – 5 rue Claude Bernard
14th and 15th:
Le Verre Siffleur rue d’Alésia : great food, vibrant atmosphere
Le Commerce – elegant luxurious classical décors (rue du commerce 15e)
La Coupole – famous French brasserie where a lot of the artists from the 30’s used to go to
L’Entrepôt – cinema and café – concerts (7 Rue Francis de Pressens, Pernety)
In the 19th – in the quartier of Jourdain/Buttes Chaumont:
L’Escargot Bar – French cuisine – local atmosphere – friendly staff – 50 rue de la Villette 19ème – close to Jourdain
Chez Eva Pritsky – café brocante
In the 13th Arrondissement
Le temps des Cerises – Buttes aux cailles – cooperative – French food
Chez Gladines – Buttes aux cailles – rue des Cinq Diamants – cheap; big portions, French food
Squares with local affordable restaurants
Place St Catherine
Rue St Marthe (11th)
Other than French Food
Italian: Pasta y Fagioli
Fuxia
Thai Vietnamese:
Mondol Kiri
Thai Royal
