Olympic Games 2024: restaurants open in Paris and must-dos

For the first time in a century, Paris is hosting the world's biggest sporting event. This international spotlight is an opportunity for many Parisian restaurants to showcase their cuisine. The capital is overflowing with addresses in a wide variety of styles, some of which have become unmissable. Here's a selection of restaurants from the Guide Jaune, guaranteed to be 100% open during the Games.

Top restaurants to visit during the Olympic Games

In Paris, 21 restaurants have been awarded 17/20 and 4 toques by Gault&Millau. This is the sign of a concentration of universes of culinary excellence.

Le Gabriel - La Réserve Paris

Chef Jérôme Banctel has been working at La Réserve Paris Hôtel since 2015. The Le Gabriel restaurant (4 toques) offers three menus: Escale, Virée and Périple. The first is reserved for lunch, while the other two are respectively an ode to his native Brittany, and the expression of "destinations crossed to the ends of the earth".

The Stage

Stéphanie Le Quellec, winner of season 2 of Top Chef, has been based on Avenue Matignon for almost five years. Her restaurant La Scène (4 toques) is offering a special menu for the Olympic Games. Dishes such as Kristal caviar on French toast with raw cream and sorrel.

DR - Benoit Linero

Japanese restaurants to try during the Olympics

Japan is another major reference in world gastronomy. Many Japanese chefs work in Paris, offering the opportunity to discover Japanese cuisine in France.

Sushi Yoshinaga

Located in the 2ᵉ arrondissement, the establishment offers a unique, very intimate setting, with a beautiful luminosity. At Sushi Yoshinaga (3 toques), you're seated at an all-wood counter, facing the chef. This gives you the opportunity to talk directly with him about his creations.

Sushi-B

Sushi-B (3 toques) is located in the same arrondissement, this time just off the Palais Royal. The ambiance is soothing, with a view of a small fountain. Two evening menus are available: Omakase Gold and Silver. They include an amuse-bouche, two or three starters, two main courses, a selection of sushi and dessert.

Not-to-be-missed zero-waste restaurants during the Olympic Games

The notion of eco-responsibility has been part of everyone's daily routine for several years now. Chefs, who are often very concerned about the origin of their products, play a leading role in protecting the environment.

La Table de Colette

At Josselin Marie, respect for the environment is at the heart of his commitment as a chef. When you visit the restaurant's website to discover the menus, the carbon impact of the meal is explained. The vegetable garden is at the center of the plate. The chef is also flexible, so he can adapt to everyone's needs: all-vegetable, gluten-free, lactose-free and vegan.

Pride

The 28-year-old chef is one of the most talked-about in the media. Eloi Spinnler tries to promote his anti-gaspi approach on YouTube in particular. In his Orgueil establishment (2 toques), in reference to the cardinal sin, he tries to work each product in its entirety. With a starter-main course-dessert menu priced at 27 euros for lunch, the chef offers a bistronomic experience at a reasonable price.

Albin Durand - DR

Palaces to eat in during the Olympic Games

Paris is also a mecca for the hotel industry. Many of Paris's luxury hotels have one or more gourmet restaurants on their premises. To do so, they often call on top chefs to delight their guests' taste buds.

Restaurant Le Meurice - Alain Ducasse

The palace on rue de Rivoli in the 1ᵉʳ arrondissement is one of the best-known in Paris. Its restaurant is under the aegis ofAlain Ducasse and his executive chef Amaury Bouhours. The cuisine respects traditions, such as the warm guinea fowl and foie gras pâté. The restaurant room is inspired by the Salon de la Paix in the Château de Versailles, immersing guests in the utmost luxury.

Pur' - Jean-François Rouquette - Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme

Our journey continues between the Opéra Garnier and Place Vendôme. At chef Jean-François Rouquette's Pur' restaurant (4 toques), classic cuisine merges with the contemporary. The establishment was one of the first to unveil an open kitchen. An opportunity for diners to watch the chef create dishes they can almost taste themselves.

Mark Read - DR

Breweries to visit during the Olympic Games

The capital is also the temple of brasseries, with their traditional, generous dishes. This tradition has tended to be lost in recent years. Fortunately, some establishments continue to perpetuate this culinary heritage.

La Grande Brasserie

On Rue de la Bastille, the message is clear: timeless respect for traditional cuisine. On the menu, snails with parsley butter rub shoulders with beef tartare au couteau and caramel and almond floating island. The decor is vintage, as evidenced by a large fresco on one of the walls of La Grande Brasserie.

Le Train Bleu

This Parisian institution is located in the heart of the Gare de Lyon. The establishment owes its origins to the 1900 Universal Exhibition, and some of its rooms have even been classified as historic monuments. At Le Train Bleu (1 toque), brasserie-style cuisine is enhanced by certain noble products. For example, mimosa eggs are combined with Petrossian caviar.

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Terrace restaurants for the Olympic Games

Summer sunshine is also the perfect time to enjoy lunch or dinner on a terrace. In Paris, there are a number of addresses offering beautiful views.

Le Tout-Paris Cheval Blanc Paris

The Cheval Blanc hotel has several restaurants. This time, the focus is on the hotel's terrace on the Quai du Louvre. Le Tout-Paris (2 toques) offers a view of the Parisian skyline, with Notre-Dame and the Eiffel Tower the main attractions. A la carte and two menus are available, with a focus on gastronomic cuisine.

Cour des Vosges - La Terrasse

In this beautiful hotel in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, the Evok group has built up a complete offer. From breakfast to dinner, the menu is inspired by traditional bourgeois cuisine, such as poultry pâté en croûte, escargots en persillades and bouchée à la reine. Dishes imagined and executed by chef Adam Bentahla and his teams.

Young talents not to be missed during the Olympic Games

Paris is also a stronghold for young chefs wishing to open their own restaurant. The city is home to many epicureans curious to discover new addresses. Every year, the Guide Jaune and its investigators take it upon themselves to unearth them for you.

Empreinte

A stone's throw from the Palais Brongniart, Empreinte (2 toques) is Jérôme Laurent's playground. The chef offers affordable gastronomy based on local produce. The restaurant offers a lunch menu and two dinner menus. Prices range from 39 to 75 euros.

Amâlia

Open only since the beginning of the year, this new jewel is the fruit of a couple's labor. Cecilia Spurio and Eugenio Anfuso, both of Italian origin. In the kitchen, we find these transalpine notes in the lemon-flavored spaghettoni, accompanied by a spicy oyster sauce, lovage oil and sumac.

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Paris's must-try literary restaurants

History has shown that great writers and great restaurants go hand in hand. Parisian life and its restaurants play an important role in many a novel.

Drouant

This address is known throughout France as the host of the Prix Goncourt. Drouant (1 toque) remains above all a restaurant with traditional cuisine. Its chef, Romain Van Thienen, offers classic dishes such as beef tartare with pommes allumettes, or vol-au-vent with poultry, sweetbreads, chanterelles, asparagus and pan-fried foie gras.

Le Procope

This café-restaurant is one of the oldest in Paris, opening in the XVIIᵉ century. It was one of the literary strongholds of the XIXᵉ. Today, at Le Procope (1 toque), the atmosphere is deliberately old-fashioned, with gilding and crystal chandeliers. The menu features simple, traditional dishes such as tête de veau en cocotte or coq au vin "ivre de Juliénas".

Julie Limont - Hans Lucas - Simon Detraz

Restaurants "outside the walls" where to go during the Olympics

The Paris region and Greater Paris also have their share of quality addresses. Parisian concentration sometimes pushes certain chefs out of the capital itself.

Villa9Trois

In Montreuil, Villa9Trois (2 toques) was Camille Saint M'leux's old stomping ground. Since his departure in the spring, he has been replaced by Yaël Demarbre. The 26-year-old chef has worked at such top addresses as Maison Lameloise (4 toques) and La Villa René Lalique (4 toques). The restaurant, with its leafy ambience, continues its quest for modern gastronomy.

Bonnotte

Last journey from east to west, towards Boulogne-Billancourt. The town, known for its woodland and the Roland-Garros tennis courts, also boasts some fine addresses. At the helm of Bonnotte (1 toque), Manon and Antoine Guichard organize their menu with sourced, sustainable products, even invoking family stories behind the recipes.

Because there's never enough places to enjoy a high-quality meal, here are a few other addresses not to be missed during this festive fortnight of sport:

• Prunier by Yannick Alléno
• Lava
• Ardent
• Bien Élevé
• La Table Des Résistants
• Le Taillevent
• Maxim's
• Imperial Treasure
• Datil