JG Paris Guide 2026
19 Jan, 2026
This week we will be in Paris for our AW26 showroom. I spend a couple of weeks in Paris every year for work. These are a few of my favourite places, mostly food-related, that I return to every time.
19 Jan, 2026
This week we will be in Paris for our AW26 showroom. I spend a couple of weeks in Paris every year for work. These are a few of my favourite places, mostly food-related, that I return to every time.
Eat & Drink
Buvette -75009 Buvette combines the elegance of an old-world café with the relaxed feel of a neighbourhood eatery. Cute, cosy and local.
Kunitoraya Udon Bistro 75001– They say the Japanese restaurants in Paris are the best outside Japan, a Japanese friend says Kunitoraya is like Japanese home cooking. Its heaven and my favourite place to eat in Paris. You can’t book and if you don’t want to queue get there before 7pm. Shut Sunday and Monday.
Le Grande Colbert 75002 – because it’s so French serving all the French classics. Located in a corner of the Galerie Vivienne, a historic covered passageway in Paris, Le Grand Colbert is a traditional French brasserie with an art deco interior.
Le Petite Vendome 75002– an authentic French Bistro, fun colourful interior with lively staff especially the sandwich lady. Reputedly the best jambon-beurre sandwich in Paris and all the traditional bistro classics. Located near Place Vendome.
L’Entracte - Charming tiny Parisian wine bar, been there since the 1600s, next to Le Jardin du Palais-Royal.
47 Rue de Montpensier, 75001 Paris
Bakeries & Sweet Things
Du Pain Des Ideas 75010 – It's boulangerie heaven here. Also serves coffee on benches outside. Closed Saturday and Sunday.
Liberté 75010– contemporary boulangerie and beautiful patisserie, also serves coffee and tea and you can sit in.
Jacques Genin 75003 – Jacques Genin crafts Paris’s best chocolates.
Café Kitsuné 75001 - Sweet café with a shaded terrace outside. Located at the northwest edge of Jardin du Palais Royal.
Bakeries & Sweet Things
Du Pain Des Ideas 75010 – Its boulangerie heaven here. Also serves coffee on benches outside. Closed Saturday and Sunday.
Liberté 75010– contemporary boulangerie and beautiful patisserie, also serves coffee and tea and you can sit in.
Jacques Genin 75003 – Jacques Genin crafts Paris’s best chocolates.
Café Kitsuné 75001 - Sweet café with a shaded terrace outside. Located at the northwest edge of Jardin du Palais Royal.
Bourse de Commerce
Parks, Museums and Galleries
Jardin du Palais-Royal 75001 – My favourite place in Paris. Calm, and quiet landscaped gardens of a 17th century palace with a large fountain, tree-lined walkways and lots of good places to sit and relax under the trees and round the fountain. Visit the Colonnes de Buren, black and white columns at the southern end of the jardin.
Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce – a collection of contemporary art works assembled over more than fifty years by the patron and collector François Pinault.
Yvon Lambert Gallery 75003 – great for contemporary art books, exhibition catalogues, rare and out-of-print books, and posters, also has a gallery showcasing works by both emerging and established artists.
E. Dehillerin
Cooking
E. Dehillerin 75001 – If you like cooking visit this old traditional kitchen supply shop which opened in 1820. (Just remember if you buy knives, you can’t take them on Eurostar or a flight, they will post them back for you).
E. Dehillerin
Cooking
E. Dehillerin 75001 – If you like cooking visit this old traditional kitchen supply shop which opened in 1820. (Just remember if you buy knives, you can’t take them on Eurostar or a flight, they will post them back for you).
Eat & Drink
Kunitoraya Udon Bistro 75001– They say the Japanese restaurants in Paris are the best outside Japan, a Japanese friend says Kunitoraya is like Japanese home cooking. Its heaven and my favourite place to eat in Paris. You can’t book and if you don’t want to queue get there before 7pm. Shut Sunday and Monday.
Le Grande Colbert 75002 – because it’s so French serving all the French classics. Located in a corner of the Galerie Vivienne, a historic covered passageway in Paris, Le Grand Colbert is a traditional French brasserie with an art deco interior.
Le Petite Vendome 75002– an authentic French Bistro, fun colourful interior with lively staff especially the sandwich lady. Reputedly the best jambon-beurre sandwich in Paris and all the traditional bistro classics. Located near Place Vendome.
L’Entracte - Charming tiny Parisian wine bar, been there since the 1600s, next to Le Jardin du Palais-Royal.
47 Rue de Montpensier, 75001 Paris
Bourse de Commerce
Parks, Museums and Galleries
Jardin du Palais-Royal 75001 – My favourite place in Paris. Calm, and quiet landscaped gardens of a 17th century palace with a large fountain, tree-lined walkways and lots of good places to sit and relax under the trees and round the fountain. Visit the Colonnes de Buren, black and white columns at the southern end of the jardin.
Pinault Collection - Bourse de Commerce – a collection of contemporary art works assembled over more than fifty years by the patron and collector François Pinault.
Yvon Lambert Gallery 75003 – great for contemporary art books, exhibition catalogues, rare and out-of-print books, and posters, also has a gallery showcasing works by both emerging and established artists.
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