Eat in Paris
Search Paris dishes by craving — croissant au beurre, falafel du marais, jambon-beurre and more.
6 dishes worth going out of your way for in Paris, 3 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
Leave room for Paris-Brest.
Croissant au beurre is a breakfast thing here, and sells out by mid-morning.
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Laminated dough — butter folded into pastry over and over — rolled, proved and baked so the outside splinters and the inside pulls apart in threads rather than crumbing.
€1.30–2.50
Best around: Rue Yves Toudic, by the Canal Saint-Martin
Pita packed past closing with fried chickpea balls, fried aubergine, red cabbage, cucumber, hummus, tahini and harissa, handed over the counter wrapped in paper and impossible to eat neatly.
€8–12
Best around: Rue des Rosiers, Le Marais
Half a baguette, split, spread thickly with good butter and filled with a few slices of ham. There is no third ingredient, and adding one makes it a different sandwich with a different name.
€4–7
Best around: Rue Yves Toudic, by the Canal Saint-Martin
A ring of choux pastry, split and filled with hazelnut praline buttercream, scattered with flaked almonds and dusted with icing sugar. Sold whole or as an individual round.
€6–9
Best around: Rue Montorgueil, a short walk west of the Marais
Onions cooked down slowly until they are brown and sweet, beef stock, a slice of bread floated on top and gruyère grilled over it until it seals the bowl.
€9–15
Best around: Boulevard de Clichy, below Montmartre and Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, near the Luxembourg
A cut of beef — onglet, bavette or entrecôte — seared hard, with a mountain of thin fried potatoes and usually a sauce: béarnaise, au poivre, or a disc of herb butter melting over the top.
€16–28
Best around: Boulevard de Clichy, below Montmartre and Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, near the Luxembourg
