ATELIER MAITRE ALBERT
In a beautiful dining room imagined by Jean-Michel Willmotte, one enjoys great modern and light, rotisserie-themed cuisine by Guy Savoy. Maître Albert is a ‘bistronomic’ restaurant along with Les Bouquinistes.
LA COUPOLE
At the rushing hours of Montparnasse, all the Great Names met here : Picasso, Giacometti, Hemingway, Kessel, Jean Cocteau, Joséphine Baker, Man Ray, Georges Braque, André Brassaï, Sonia Delaunay. La Coupole is a true monument of Montparnasse’s history, an inevitable place for many tourists looking for the atmosphere described by Hemingway in A Moveable Feast and for excellent traditional food.
102 Bd du Montparnasse 75014 Paris
01 43 20 14 20
Every day 8.30 a.m to Midnight
LES DEUX MAGOTS
The twin of the Flore, or its enemy, also has its literary Prize, created in 1993 and which is the first one to be awarded in January. So how to decide between the Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots ? Everyone has to decide according to his tastes. Maybe we will choose Les Deux Magots to have a cup of tea or a hot chocolate made in the traditional way and for its terrace during spring or even in winter when we look desperately for the first rays of sunshine.
LES DEUX MAGOTS
6 place Saint-Germain des prés 75006 Paris
01 45 48 55 25
Open every day 7.00 a.m – 2.00 a.m
LA CLOSERIE DES LILAS
A mythical an unmissable venue that concentrates all the essence of Saint-Germain. There, one sips a glass of champagne or a mojito at the bar then dine with the heady scent of lilacs and the sound of piano jazz in the spring.
LA CLOSERIE DES LILAS
171 Boulevard Montparnasse 75006 Paris
01.40.51.34.50
Open every day
RALPH’S
A bit of North American gastronomy in a chic and cozy decor or on the magnificent patio when the weather is nice. We taste a lobster from Maine or a crab from Maryland, we eat a good hotdog, an organic burger or a steak from Colorado to finish with a cheese cake. Without forgetting the tradition of the doggy bag when leaving !
RALPH’S
173 boulevard Saint Germain 75006 Paris
01 44 77 76 00
Open every days
SEMILLA
This is one of the favorite bistro addresses of Germanopratin people. After Fish, la Boissonnerie, Cosi and Freddy’s, the American Juan Sanchez and the New Zealander Drew Harré wanted to create, still in Saint-Germain, a place dedicated to healthy and seasonal cuisine, with many raw foods, fish and seafood and little meat. Soups, gazpachos, tartares, carpaccios and other ceviches are therefore in the spotlight. Pablo Thiollier-Serrano and his team, concoct all this in front of us, in the kitchen open to the room.
SEMILLA
54 rue de Seine 75006 Paris
01 43 54 34 50
Open every day : noon – 2.30 p.m and 7.00 – 10.45 p.m
snack : 2.00 p.m – 7.00 p.m
brunch : every sunday, noon – 4.00 p.m
YEN
In a zen and warm decor, traditional Japanese cuisine concocted by Chef Naoto Masumoto. On the menu, Ingen Bainiku Ae, crunchy green beans with pieces of Japanese plum scallops, Goma Tofu, cold sesame tofu, homemade Tsukemono, crunchy pickled vegetables, or Ohitashi vegetables marinated. Sashimi of course, but also tempuras, vegetable and shrimp fritters, or a Gyu no wafu steak, Japanese-style beef with Ponzu sauce.
But the chef’s great specialty is the Soba, buckwheat flour noodles prepared on site and which he offers hot or cold, with different accompaniments: duck breast, tempura, in soup with scallops or good again with Japanese daikon and chanterelles.
YEN
22 rue Saint-Benoît 75006 Paris
01 45 44 11 18
Monday – Satueday : noon – 2.00 p.m and 7.30 – 10.30 p.m
Closed Sunday
THOUMIEUX
For almost seventy years Thoumieux has been the Brasserie of the whole Politic and Gourmet Paris. Taken over by Thierry Costes and of especially by Jean-François Piège in 2009, the typical setting of the 1930s is decorated with mirrors, red wall seats, many lightings which give the Brasserie a more rushed atmosphere. And concerning the food, still Brasserie… but reinterpreted by Sylvestre Wahid.
