About My Best Paris
My Best Paris is an English-language editorial guide to the city's finest restaurants, shops, hotels and services, for visitors and residents alike.
Paris beyond the monuments
Most visitors meet Paris through its monuments. Parisians know it through its addresses: the bakery worth the queue, the bistro where the lunchtime formule still makes sense, the cheesemonger on the market street, the hairdresser who listens. Those addresses are spread across all twenty arrondissements, from the quiet streets of the 7th to the busy markets of the 18th and 20th, and they are not always easy to find from outside.
An English-language guide
My Best Paris brings together rankings of the city's most dependable addresses, written in English for people who are visiting, studying or living here. Restaurants, food shops, bars and hotels are at its heart, but it also covers fashion, beauty, art, health, transport and the practical services that make daily life in Paris easier.
A few Paris habits worth knowing
Lunch is served at set hours and many kitchens close in the mid-afternoon; plenty of independent shops close on Sundays and for some weeks in August; and a good bistro usually expects a booking for dinner. Our listings show opening hours so you can plan around them.
Our editorial method
Our editors explore each category arrondissement by arrondissement, weigh the reputation each address has built with its customers across the years, and check opening days, addresses and contact details before publication. Every list is revisited regularly, with particular care after the summer break, when some businesses close or change hands.
For visitors and new Parisians
The guide is for travellers planning a few days in the city, for students and professionals who have just moved here, and for anyone who would like to step off the most-trodden routes and into the quartiers where Paris actually lives. It assumes curiosity, not fluent French.
Businesses in Paris
If your address appears in our selection, you may claim it and enrich its listing from the For businesses page. A complete entry in English helps the many visitors who look for you before they arrive.