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Memorable Meals
There's no shortage of fantastic food in Paris, and you don’t have to spend a fortune to eat very well indeed. On the other hand, a stay in the French capital is a good opportunity to splurge on one of the city's truly great restaurants, where dining is as much an act of sublime theater as a chance to savor an exquisitely prepared meal. A handful of the better choices are listed below, all requiring reservations well in advance.
Le Grand Vefour
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Le Grand Vefour, one of the city's oldest and most elegant restaurants, frequented in the past by the likes of Napoleon and Josephine, Victor Hugo and Jean-Paul Sartre. Current chef Guy Martin has brought three Michelin stars to this romantic restaurant, which has been in business since 1784 at a site facing the Jardin du Palais-Royal. |
Restaurant Alain Ducasse
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Restaurant Alain Ducasse at the Hotel Plaza Athenee is the signature Paris venue of internationally renowned chef Alain Ducasse, with a classy formal dining room in one of the city's top luxury hotels. |
Le Meurice
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Le Meurice earned two Michelin stars soon after the dazzling young chef Yannick Alleno took over the kitchen in 2003. The extravagantly ornate rococo-style dining room is in the Hotel Meurice, a prestigious address on the Rue de Rivoli opposite the Jardin des Tuileries. |
Senderens
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Senderens is the exciting new brasserie of superstar chef Alain Senderens, who shocked the French culinary world in the summer of 2005 when he announced that Lucas Carton, his illustrious Michelin three-star restaurant on the Place Madeleine, would take on a new name and a simpler, less expensive menu. |
Taillevent
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Taillevent has been a fixture of fine dining in Paris for more than half a century, with three Michelin stars in its pocket since 1973. The restaurant serves impeccable and highly traditional haute cuisine in a tastefully decorated 19th-century townhouse off the Champs-Elysees. |
La Tour d'Argent
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La Tour d'Argent is a venerable Left Bank establishment that combines superb classical French fare with a splendid view toward Notre-Dame and the Ile St.-Louis from six stories above the quais of the Seine. |
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