Two-star dining room on Rue d'Assas · €€€€
Hélène Darroze's Paris restaurant, two minutes from the door and two stars in the 2026 guide on guide.michelin.com. The cooking draws on her native south-west, duck foie gras from the Landes, tuna from Saint-Jean-de-Luz and a baba soaked in an Armagnac from her brother's cellars. It serves dinner Tuesday to Saturday and lunch Wednesday to Saturday, and closes on Sunday and Monday. The lunch menu, Wednesday to Saturday, is €110; the eight-course dinner is €290. Upstairs, a chef's table for seven looks into the kitchen. Book when you book the room.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out4 Rue d'Assas
Wine bar and bistro since 1954 · €€
A family-run wine bar on Rue des Saints-Pères since 1954, three minutes from the hotel, with a terrace open all year. The order is a glass of wine and one of the house's casse-croûtes on Poilâne bread, made in the Auvergne manner, or a Croque Sauvignon; the chef's seasonal dishes and an omelette with truffled ham fill out the menu. It opens from 8am to 11pm Monday to Saturday and from 9am to 9pm on Sunday. Walk in for a glass; book a table if you mean to eat.
Walk in80 Rue des Saints-Pères
The bakery where Poilâne began, 1932 · €
The Rue du Cherche-Midi shop where the Poilâne sourdough began in 1932, three minutes from the hotel. Each miche is shaped by hand and scored with a P before it goes into the oven. Buy an apple tart, a bag of the shortbread biscuits called Punitions or a loaf for the room, and you have breakfast, or a picnic for the Jardin du Luxembourg ten minutes on. It opens from 7:15am to 8pm Monday to Saturday and is closed on Sunday.
Walk in8 Rue du Cherche-Midi
One-star cooking in a bistro room · €€€
Antonin Bonnet's restaurant, one star in the 2026 guide on guide.michelin.com, in a vintage bistro room of cement tiles and a zinc counter. The cooking is seasonal and exact, and the duck pâté en croûte with foie gras is the dish to look for. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday, from a three-course menu at €95 or seven courses at €125; lunch is served Thursday to Saturday, with a two-course menu at €39 on Thursday and Friday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Book, and choose a Thursday or Friday lunch for the starred kitchen at a fraction of the price.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out33 Rue de l'Abbé Grégoire
Brasserie with painted walls, open daily · €€€
A Rue de Sèvres brasserie whose rural frescoes and gold-leaf mouldings have been left unchanged for more than 40 years, and the classic to set against the hotel's own. The March 2026 menu runs from œuf mayonnaise at €11 and leeks vinaigrette at €14 to blanquette de veau and duck confit at €32 and sole meunière at €70, with profiteroles to finish. It is open every day, for lunch from noon and for dinner from 7pm until 11pm or 11:30pm. Book for dinner.
Reserve ahead107 Rue de Sèvres
Saint-Germain café since 1887 · €€
The Boulevard Saint-Germain café of Apollinaire, and later of Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre, open since 1887 and still serving every day from 7:30am to 1:30am, with no reservations. It is a place to sit rather than to dine: a croissant at €4, the house hot chocolate at €10.50 or two soft-boiled eggs with Échiré butter at €14.50, at prices that include service. Go for breakfast or a late drink, and take a table on the terrace.
Walk in172 Boulevard Saint-Germain
Speciality coffee and brunch · €€
The Rue de Babylone café of Coutume, the Paris speciality roaster founded in 2011, a few steps from Sèvres-Babylone station. Its baristas pour the house roasts as espresso or filter, alongside brunch and lunch dishes that change with the seasons. It opens from 8am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday and from 9am to 6pm at weekends, so it suits a late breakfast or a midday coffee. Walk in for coffee; tables can be booked for brunch.
Walk in47 Rue de Babylone
Breakfast is extra unless your rate includes it. Brasserie Lutetia serves it every day from 7am to 10:30am: the American buffet at €72 a head brings the buffet, a hot drink, a pressed or wellness juice and one savoury and one sweet dish from the menu, and the wellness breakfast is €75. À la carte, eggs any way are €18, avocado toast on Poilâne bread €24 and soft-boiled eggs with caviar €46. Le Saint-Germain's breakfast menu has a Parisian breakfast of pastries, juice, fruit salad and a hot drink at €45. Outside, Poilâne's own shop is three minutes away from 7:15am, Monday to Saturday, the Café de Flore serves croissants from 7:30am every day, and Coutume Babylone does coffee and brunch from 8am on weekdays and 9am at weekends.
