The ground floor 'Table d'Hélène' has a charming and casual atmosphere. It offers French cuisine with the famous touch of the Périgord and a consequent good selection of wines.

Open 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, this renewed brasserie-restaurant, popular since the fifties, has a warm and comfortable setting. Its specialialties include sea-food and of course 'pigs trotters'.

Flemish paintings in an elegant 17th Century atmosphere accompany a truly great—yet not too expensive— traditional French cuisine thanks to a talented 'Michelin star' chef.

Well situated in the throbbing heart of Saint Germain, this is an authentic 'Art Nouveau' Brasserie with time-worn merits of good food and efficient service according to traditional values.

Authentic literary and artistic address since 1880 (for such august patrons as Daudet, Renoir, Rodin, Pissaro) where a jury gathers every November to choose the annual Goncourt, Renaudot and Apolinaire prize winners. Specializes in oysters and seafood platters.

If you've been visiting the Pompidou Center, try this restaurant on top of the Center, with a unique view of Paris. You have to be at ease with 'ultra design' all aluminium and vinyl decoration.

This is the Paris of the belle epoch of Montparnasse, conjouring up painters such as Utrillo. A great wine selection accompanies fine cuisine (not to be confused with another good wine restaurant of the same name in Neuilly!).

It's worth getting a little away from the usual tourist areas for candle-lit dinners in a rustic setting. Here you'll find excellent traditional food at really low prices, and the menu offers an extraordinarily wide choice.

Right in the heart of the Latin quarter, here is a mall bistro steeped in history and tradition. You can enjoy home-made tasteful and fresh food served with a wide variety of hand-picked wines.

Known for offering the lowest-priced winelist in France, this restaurant also offers creative and refined contemporary French cuisine for reasonable prices.

This restaurant, dating from a century ago on the site of a former windmill of pre-Cubist Montparnasse, offers a warm, pastoral setting for an all-inclusive 3-course meal with cocktail and wine with efficient, friendly service for very reasonable prices.