Five modular spaces, two terraces and a rooftop give Le 211 room for as many as a thousand guests on the eastern edge of central Paris. The bar, restaurant and club occupies a waterside site within the Parc de la Villette, facing the Canal de l'Ourcq, and styles itself as a festive food court and nightspot rolled into one, open from midday through the night across the back half of the week. Located at 211 Avenue Jean Jaures in the 19th arrondissement, the venue takes its name from its street nu.....

A taste of Corsica in the heart of Paris, L'Alivi at 27 Rue du Roi de Sicile brings the flavours, aromas and easy warmth of the island to the historic Marais. The dining room, all exposed timber and rough stone, conjures the feel of a village auberge far from the boulevards outside. On sunny days the terrace, framed by olive trees, completes the illusion, transporting diners straight to the Mediterranean. The menu is a love letter to traditional Corsican cooking, from the island's celebrated .....

Inside a restored nineteenth-century iron foundry in the eleventh arrondissement, the Atelier des Lumieres became the first all-digital art centre in Paris when it opened on 13 April 2018. Created by the company Culturespaces, it takes the masterpieces of painters such as Klimt, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Dali and projects them, vastly enlarged and set to music, across the floors, walls and towering ceilings of its great hall, so that visitors are surrounded and immersed in the images rather than loo.....

Badaboum brings a playful, intimate spirit to the buzzing nightlife of the Bastille district. Tucked away on rue des Taillandiers in the 11th arrondissement, it combines a club, a live-music room and a stylish cocktail bar under one roof, with a hidden lounge adding to its sense of fun. Its main room is compact and warmly designed, putting the crowd close to the booth and the band alike. The programming spans house, disco, electronic and live gigs, with an emphasis on quality bookings over she.....

Bel Canto brings together fine dining and live opera in a concept all but unique to Paris. Here the professional opera singers double as the waitstaff, performing arias between courses while diners work through a refined French menu. The original location on the Quai de l'Hotel de Ville occupies a vaulted stone cellar whose natural acoustics and candlelit intimacy turn each performance into something genuinely affecting. A second venue near Neuilly-Porte Maillot offers a larger room for sizeab.....

Occupying a building with roots stretching back to 1877, La Bellevilloise is a sprawling cultural venue in the 20th arrondissement that wraps a restaurant, concert halls, event spaces and a rooftop bar into a single creative hub. The dining room, the Halle aux Oliviers, takes its name from the mature olive trees that grow inside it beneath a glass roof, a striking setting for a meal in the east of the city. The kitchen serves seasonal, produce-driven cooking with a world-food influence and a s.....

The historic cradle of the Bibliotheque nationale de France, the Richelieu site near the Palais Royal housed the national collections for centuries and reopened in 2022 after a long and careful restoration that transformed it into a cultural destination in its own right. Books have been kept on this site since the seventeenth century, and the buildings grew piecemeal over generations, their crowning glory the great oval reading room and the celebrated Salle Labrouste, an iron-and-glass space of .....

A circular eighteenth-century building once used for trading grain, the Bourse de Commerce reopened in 2021 as the Paris home of the contemporary art collection of the businessman Francois Pinault. The structure began as a corn exchange and later served as the city's commercial exchange, its great rotunda crowned by a glass dome and ringed by a painted panoramic fresco celebrating trade between the continents. After the city granted Pinault a long lease, the Japanese architect Tadao Ando was ent.....

Open since 1862, Le Cafe de la Paix is one of the truly mythical addresses of the capital, gazing out across the Place de l'Opera from the corner of the Grand-Hotel. Its dining rooms were designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of the opera house opposite, and the gilded mouldings, painted ceilings and red banquettes share the same Second Empire splendour. Fully and faithfully restored, the rooms glow with elegant detail, their papered alcoves and great picture windows framing one of the bu.....

Devoted entirely to the history of Paris, the Musee Carnavalet occupies a pair of fine old mansions in the Marais and traces the story of the city from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The museum was founded in 1880 by the city authorities, who acquired the Hotel Carnavalet, a Renaissance townhouse once home to the celebrated letter-writer Madame de Sevigne, and later joined it to the neighbouring Hotel Le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau, creating a sprawling complex around courtyards and .....