Pâtisserie, bakery and tea room · €€
The house where the Opéra cake was born in 1955 reopened its historic shop on the Faubourg in 2026, redesigned, with a bakery, a chocolate counter and a tea room at the back. Order the Opéra where it was invented, at €14 a slice. The tea room does a 101 breakfast with eggs at €25, croques and salads at lunch, brunch at €50 on weekend afternoons from noon to 3pm and tea at €40 from 3pm to 6pm. It opens from 8am to 8pm Tuesday to Saturday and to 7pm on Sunday, and closes on Monday.
Walk in101 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
Jazz club with cocktails and dinner
A jazz club round the corner, with a grand piano, walls of vinyl and art books, green and blue velvet, and an onyx bar facing the musicians. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from 7pm to 2am, the live sets start at 8.30pm or 9pm, and Malcom Ecolasse's kitchen serves plates to share until 10.30pm, with signature cocktails from the bar. Seats are kept for diners, so book dinner with the first set, or come later for a drink at the bar. Closed on Sunday and Monday.
Reserve ahead28 Rue Jean Mermoz
Neighbourhood neo-bistro with natural wines · €€€
A short menu that changes every Wednesday, made from scratch, and a cellar strong on natural and organic wines and craft beer, run by Florence and Thomas. The week of 7 October 2026 brought a pork terrine with walnuts and apricots at €17 and guinea fowl with broccoli croquettes and a parmesan sauce at €39, service included. It is listed in the MICHELIN Guide for 2026, without a star. Lunch is 12.15pm to 2pm and dinner 7.15pm to 10pm, Monday to Friday only, so book a weekday.
Reserve ahead16 Rue Jean Mermoz
Speciality coffee and brunch · €€
The Paris roaster Coutume runs the café inside the Hôtel Mathis, a small, elegant room where the baristas pour Coutume's own single-origin coffee, freshly roasted, with pastries in the morning, then brunch and a seasonal lunch. It opens at 7.30am every day of the week, earlier than anything else on this list, which makes it the place for a proper coffee before the Faubourg wakes up, at a fraction of the hotel's €12 espresso. Walk in for coffee; book for weekend brunch.
Walk in3 Rue de Ponthieu
1920s brasserie and music hall · €€€
The brasserie that Jean Cocteau's circle of artists made famous in the 1920s, redecorated by Alexis Mabille, with the brasserie classics on the menu: big Burgundy snails, sole meunière, the bœuf sur le bœuf, roast coquelet with morels and a hand-cut Charolais tartare. Dinner only, from 7pm, Tuesday to Sunday. From Thursday to Saturday a €96 set menu applies after 9.30pm in the brasserie and the music hall next door puts on a cabaret with a €150 menu; on Sunday it is French cancan. It is the one dinner on this list on a Sunday night. Closed on Monday.
Reserve ahead34 Rue du Colisée
Bib Gourmand handmade udon · €€
Udon made by hand, without machines, in a broth of dried bonito and kombu, and a Bib Gourmand for the ninth year running in the 2026 guide. Hot udon at lunch run from €22 with wakame to €25 with tempura, a large portion is €3 more, and there is a long sake list. It serves Monday to Friday from 11.45am to 2.30pm and 7pm to 10pm, last orders at 9.40pm, and closes at weekends, on public holidays and for about three weeks in summer.
Reserve ahead7-9 Rue de Ponthieu
Jean-François Piège, two MICHELIN stars · €€€€
Jean-François Piège's own table, opened in 2015 and entered through the kitchen, a small dining room under a geometric glass roof, with two stars in the 2026 guide. There is no à la carte: the three-course lunch is €166 on Thursday and Friday, the Balade des Territoires de France €246 on weekdays and the full Tour de France des Territoires €376, built on his slow-cooked mijotés. Dinner runs Monday to Saturday and lunch on Thursday and Friday, which makes it the starred answer to a Monday night when Epicure is shut. Book well ahead.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out7 Rue d'Aguesseau
Breakfast is not included unless your rate says so. Hotel guests can take it in Epicure's dining room, over the garden, from 7.30am to 10.30am, in Café Antonia from 8am to 11am, or in the room. In Café Antonia the Continental is €58 a head, the American and the Wellbeing €72, eggs Benedict €39, the Saint-Honoré waffle €35 and an espresso €12, while soft-boiled eggs with Sologne caviar or scrambled eggs with black truffle are €58. Take it once in Epicure's room for the garden. For the other mornings, Dalloyau, four minutes up the Faubourg, does its 101 breakfast with eggs for €25 from 8am, Tuesday to Sunday, and Coutume on Rue de Ponthieu pours speciality coffee from 7.30am every day.
