The restaurants, cafés and bars below are our personal favourites or recommended by people we know and are all linked to a post or another blog.
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
Restoran Hindin Han
Jusovina bb
88 000 MOSTAR
Tel/Fax: 00387 36 581 054
Mob. 00387 61 153 924
CROATIA
The Skybar
Pridvorje 5,
20217 Dubrovnik
FRANCE
You may want to use an on-line booking service such as mytable.com.
PARIS 1st arrondissement
Restaurants open at lunchtime only
Angelina’s Tea Room for breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea (best at breakfast to avoid the crowds), 226 rue de Rivoli – every day from 7.30 am to 7 pm, weekend from 8.30 am to 7 pm
A Priori Thé, 35-37 Galerie Vivienne, 75002 Paris, M° Bourse or Palais Royale, 01 42 97 48 75 , http://apriorithe.com. Open for breakfast-lunch-tea: Monday -Friday from 9am to 6 pm /Saturday from 9am to 6:30 pm, Sunday Brunch from 12am to 4pm Sunday tea from 4pm-6:30pm
Café Diane, Jardins des Tuileries, 75001 Paris – every day, same opening hours as garden
Verlet Coffee & tea shop with coffee & tea and cakes any time and light lunch
256 rue Honoré, 75001 Paris, Monday to Saturday 9.30 am to 6.30 pm, www.verlet.fr
Véro Dodat, 19 galérie Véro Dodat, 75001 Paris – weekdays at lunchtime
Restaurants open at night (and at lunchtime)
La Taverne de l’Arbre Sec, 109 rue Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris 01 40 41 10 36
Hotel Costes, 239 rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré, 75001 Paris +33 1 42 44 50 00 (I haven’t tested this yet, but another Australian blogger has)
Carré des Feuillants, 14 rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris 01 42 86 82 82 carredesfeuillants@orange.fr www.carredesfeuillants.fr
Bistrot Vivienne, 4 rue des Petits Champs, Paris 75001, 01 49 27 00 50, http://www.bistrotvivienne.com/
Le Comptoir des Petits Champs, 17 Rue des Petits Champs, 75001 Paris, 01 42 96 47 54. Open 7 days a week.
Café Louise, 8 rue Croix des Petits Champs, 75001 Paris – weekdays, 12 noon to 10 pm
Royal Valois, 1 Place Valois, 75001 Paris – weekdays, 7 am to midnight
Café de l’imprimerie, 29 Rue Coquillière, 75001 Paris – every day, midday to midnight
L’Autobus impérial, 14 Rue Mondétour 75001 Paris
Aperitifs
Hôtel du Louvre, Bar Le Defendeur, Place André Malraux, 75001 Paris
Le Meurice, Bar 228, 228 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris
PARIS 2nd arrondissement
Le Mesturet, 77 rue de Richelieu, 75002, 01 42 97 40 68
PARIS 3rd arrondissment
Carette, 25 Place des Vosges, 75003 Paris, 01 48 87 94 07
PARIS 4th arrondissement
Bakeries
Comme a Lisbonne, 37 rue du Roi de Sicile, 75004 Paris
Au Petit Versailles du Marais, 1 rue Tiron, 75004 Paris
PARIS 5th arrondissement
Restaurants
La Bastide Odéon, 7 rue Corneille, 75006 Paris, tel 01 43 26 03 65, contact@bastideodeon.com, www.bastideodeon.com, M° Odéon lines 10 and 4, RER Luxembourg, open every day.
PARIS 6th arrondissement
Aperitifs
Hôtel Lutetia, 45, boulevard Raspail , 75006 Paris
PARIS 7th arrondissement
Coutume Australian coffee bar, 47 rue de Babylone, 75007, Tel. +33 (0)1 45 51 50 47
Restaurants
Le Pré aux Clercs, 30 rue Bonaparte, 75006 – Tel 01 43 54 41 73.
Tearooms
Ladurée 21 rue Bonaparte Paris 75006 – Tel. 01 44 07 64 87
Ladurée au grand magasin Le PRINTEMPS 64 Boulevard Haussmann Paris 09 – Tel. 01 42 82 40 10
Ladurée 16-18 rue Royale Paris 75008 – Tel. 01 42 60 21 79
Ladurée, 75 Champs-Élysées 75008 Paris – Tel. 01 40 75 08 75, Monday to Thursday from 7:30 am to 11:30 pm, Friday from 7:30 am to 00:30 am, Saturday from 8:30 am to 00:30 am, Sunday from 8:30 am to 11:30 pm
BLOIS & Loire Valley
Au Coin d’Table, 9, rue Henri Drussy 41000 BLOIS
L’Appart’ thé, 12-14 rue Basse, 41000 Blois, 02 54 74 26 73
L’Embarcadère, 16 quai Ulysse Besnard, 41000 Blois, 02.54.78.31.41 contact@lembarcadere.fr
Vinomania, cellar, restaurant, wine bar, place ave Maria, 12 rue du Poids du Roi, 41000 Blois, 02 54 90 17 66
Les Forges du Château, 21 Place du Chateau, 41000 Blois
BRACIEUX (near Chambord)
Au Fil du Temps, 11 Halle, 41250 Bracieux, France Tel. 0254460384
CHAMBORD
Le Saint Michel, Place Saint Louis – 41250 CHAMBORD, +33 2 54 20 31 31, hotelsaintmichel@wanadoo.fr,
ONZAIN (15 minutes from Blois)
Domaine des Hauts de Loire, Route de Herbault, 41150 Onzain, 02 54 20 72 57, hauts-loire@relaischateaux.com, www.domainehautsloire.com
ROUEN
Brasserie Paul,1 place de la Cathédrale,76000 Rouen
ITALY
TUSCANY
Da Muzzicone, Castiglione Fiorentino, 7 Piazza San Francesco, 52043 Castiglione Fiorentino
Il Cantone del Guelfo, Via Guelfa, 41/43, Florence
San Augustino (now Mondovino), via Augustino 27, Florence
Ristorante ‘La Galleria’, Via Guicciardini 48r, 50125 Florence Telephone: 0039 055 21 85 45 (on the right as you head towards Palazzo Pitti)
MILAN
Marcenti Caffe, 21 Via Dei Mercanti, Milano
Da Vin – La Toscana e il resto del mondo, Via Pioppette, 3 – MILANO (Colonne di s. Lorenzo) Tel. 0289403300 3283634324 info@trattoriadavin.it
Hi Rosemary, in the 7th I can recommend Hotel Muguet (small but perfectly formed bathrooms), quite feminine. As a solo female traveller I love staying there. I would also recommend Cafe Cler in the nearby rue Cler for lunch, afternoon tea or dinner.
Thanks Jo, I’m sure my readers will be interested. I’ll have to check out Café Cler myself!
Great job compiling this list. This will help alot of visitors just like me to chose where to dine and drink.
Hi Rosemary,
I was checking through your blog for places to eat in Paris. We’ll be there in September for 3 days and I wanted to see what restaurants you recommend. We won’t have time to try all these restaurants, but we’ll certainly check out 2-3 of them. I’m sorry I don’t see you writing more often. Hope all is well in your corner of the world.
Best regards,
Anda
Hi Anda,
I would love to write more often but I just don’t have the energy at the end of the day any more. When I’m retired, I hope to find more time. Enjoy your time in Paris! Where else are you going?