Café de la Paix

Rating: 12.5
Author: Gault&Millau

75009 PARIS

12.5/20
Gourmet Restaurant

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4 PHOTOS

Cooking: French | Traditional
Services: Accomodation
Style: Elegant | With friends

Gault&Millau's review 2026

Mythical, inescapable, grandiose... for more than 150 years, all the grandiloquent adjectives have been used to the full to qualify this institution, where you sometimes enter simply to take a few photos, without consuming anything, before continuing your stroll in the Opéra district. The decor is magnificent, it's true, skilfully blending the original Napoleon III spirit with a few more contemporary elements. Take a seat on the terrace, overlooking the Opéra, or in the large dining room with its gold-leaf panelling, and you'll quickly realize that the weekly menu is an excellent choice, allowing you (at lunchtime and on weekdays only) to fully appreciate the spirit of the place: a good Paris-Toulouse sausage on Wednesday with its lovely mashed potatoes, a blanquette de veau riz pilaf in the rules of the art on Thursday, good steamed leeks and mimosa egg as a starter and a perfect organic vanilla millefeuille from Madagascar to conclude a deftly placed sequence at €49. The menu quickly takes you to altitudes where oxygen is scarce (count 100 euros if you're being reasonable for a starter/main course/dessert sequence), the cellar is neither very modern nor cheap and the service is more impressive for its activity than for its personality.