Three-star tasting menus, round the corner · €€€€
Kei Kobayashi's dining room is two minutes from the hotel door and holds three MICHELIN stars in the 2026 guide for his modern French cooking. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday with seatings from 7.45pm, lunch only on Friday and Saturday from 12.30pm, and it is closed on Sunday and Monday. Menus run from €195 for the Friday and Saturday lunch to €580, and children must be 12 or over. Tables open two months ahead, on the first Tuesday of each month at 9.30am, and a cancellation inside 48 hours costs €300 a head at lunch and €400 at dinner.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out5 Rue du Coq-Héron
Les Halles brasserie, open until 5am · €€
The brasserie by the Forum des Halles that opens every day from 8am until 5am, which is the point: it is where to go when everything else has shut. Order the onion soup gratinée des Halles at €11.50, the grilled pig's trotter with béarnaise at €25.50, or the Tentation de Saint-Antoine, tail, ear, snout and trotter in breadcrumbs, at €27.50; the seafood counter does platters from €29.50. It also serves breakfast from 8am, with a double espresso, pressed orange juice and a croissant for €6.50. Book for dinner; late at night, walk in.
Reserve ahead6 Rue Coquillière
All-day café on Rue Montorgueil · €€
A café and bistro on the pedestrian stretch of Rue Montorgueil, open every day from 6.30am until 2am, and the easiest early breakfast near the hotel. The Classique, a hot drink, pressed juice and bread or a pastry, is €9; the Extra adds fried eggs and bacon or a ham and cheese omelette for €14; the Complet adds Greek yoghurt, granola and fruit for €18. Brunch is on Sunday only, and there is a terrace on the street. Zola put the inn that once stood here, the Compas d'Or, in Le Ventre de Paris.
Walk in62 Rue Montorgueil
Pâtisserie since 1730 · €
The oldest pâtisserie in Paris, founded in 1730 by Nicolas Stohrer, pastry cook to Louis XV and the man credited with the baba au rhum; the painted interior is by a pupil of Paul Baudry, who worked on the Palais Garnier. Buy a baba au rhum at €6.10, a baba Chantilly at €7.20 or a vanilla éclair at €5.80, or try the puits d'amour, and eat it on the walk back. It also makes savoury classics such as bouchées à la reine. Open every day from 8am, until 8.30pm Monday to Saturday and 8pm on Sunday.
Walk in51 Rue Montorgueil
Les Halles bistro since 1935 · €€€
A Les Halles bistro since 1935, run since June 2018 by Élodie and Jean-François Piège, who freshened up the 1930s room without changing its character, zinc counter included. The cooking is French bourgeois: the poule au pot itself with sauce poulette at €48 a head for two, beef tartare prepared at the table at €42, onion soup gratinée at €20 and crêpes Suzette at €27, with a set lunch at €48. Open Tuesday to Saturday, lunch from noon to 2pm and dinner from 7pm to 11pm; closed on Sunday and Monday. Book.
Reserve ahead9 Rue Vauvilliers
Wine bar since 1980 · €€
Mark Williamson, a Briton with a passion for the Rhône, opened it in 1980, and the list still leans on the Rhône before wandering off to the Languedoc, the Loire, Italy and the Mosel. The wines by the glass change often, served as a small or large glass, a carafe or a bottle, and the kitchen cooks a daily bistro menu, from roast guinea fowl to vitello tonnato. Open Monday to Saturday from noon to 11pm, with the kitchen until 10pm; closed on Sunday. A new poster by a different artist appears every year.
Reserve ahead13 Rue des Petits-Champs
Cocktail bar reached through a trattoria · €€
A cocktail bar at Daroco, the Italian trattoria at 6 Rue Vivienne; the way in is through the restaurant. It opens every night from 5pm to 2am and takes no reservations, so arrive early for a seat. For its tenth anniversary the list brings back 30 cocktails from its first decade, three for each year, all at €17, from Planteray rum with pineapple, coconut and lime to absinthe with coconut milk, pandan and nutmeg.
Walk in6 Rue Vivienne
Bouillon in a Belle Époque dining room · €
The Pharamond family brought tripes à la mode de Caen to Les Halles in 1832, and the dining room keeps the woodwork, painted mirrors and glass decoration of its makeover for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Today it is a bouillon, the old Paris formula of quick, cheap, home-made food: onion soup at €4, six snails at €9.90, the tripes at €12.10 and andouillette with chips at €13.80. Open every day of the year from 11.45am to midnight without a break, with or without a booking.
Walk in24 Rue de la Grande Truanderie
Breakfast is served every day from 7.30am to 10.30am in Restaurant Madame Rêve on the ground floor, or in your room. Some rates include it and others do not; bought on the day, the continental, with mini baguettes and pastries, a fresh orange or grapefruit juice and a hot drink, is €30, the European adds yoghurt for €42, and eggs to order run from €10 for two boiled eggs to €21 for scrambled eggs with salmon, with Mariage Frères tea. Outside, Le Compas on Rue Montorgueil, six minutes away, serves breakfast from 6.30am for €9 to €18, and Au Pied de Cochon, three minutes away, does an espresso, orange juice and croissant for €6.50 from 8am. Stohrer opens at 8am every day for something sweet on the way.
Georges, the restaurant on the Centre Pompidou's top floor, is off the list: the building closed on 22 September 2025 for works and reopens in 2030, so for now the Pompidou is something to look at from ROOF, not somewhere to eat.
