Best restaurants in Le Marais, seven checked addresses

Seven addresses and one rule

This is a selection, not a ranking: no scores, no customer reviews. Each address appears in an editorial source named below, has an official website and has left a trace of recent activity. Those that fail any of the three tests are left out on purpose.

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The addresses

• Les Enfants Rouges, 9 rue de Beauce (3rd). Author cooking with a Japanese accent, farm produce. Le Fooding puts it in the « over €51 » band and the Michelin Guide at « €€€ », and lists it among restaurants open on Sundays. Le Fooding gives Tuesday to Thursday as closing days; the official site could not be read, so confirm before you go.
• Datil, 13 rue des Gravilliers (3rd). Plant-based, zero-waste author cooking. Fooding: over €51; Michelin: « €€€€ ». Lunch Wednesday to Friday, 12:15pm to 1:30pm; dinner Monday to Friday, 7:15pm to 8:45pm; closed at the weekend.
• Parcelles, 13 rue Chapon (3rd). A bistro dating from 1936, bourgeois cooking. Fooding: €36 to €50; Michelin: « €€€ » and an « inspector’s favourite », with advice to book ahead. Service noon to 2pm and 7pm to 10pm, closed Saturday and Sunday.
• Ogata, 16 rue Debelleyme (3rd). Japanese restaurant and tea room in a seventeenth-century mansion. Fooding: over €51. Not to be confused with the namesakes in Kyoto.
• Bistrot des Tournelles, 6 rue des Tournelles (4th). An old-style bistro, meat and grills. Fooding: €36 to €50. Dinner 7pm to 11pm, closed Monday.
• Bontemps, 57 rue de Bretagne (3rd). Pastry, tea room, lunch and brunch. Fooding: €16 to €35; a Time Out entry exists too. Pâtisserie open, according to its website, Wednesday to Friday 11am to 7pm, Saturday 10:30am to 7pm and Sunday 10:30am to 5:30pm, with a break from 2:30pm to 3pm; closed Monday and Tuesday.
• Miznon Marais, 22 rue des Écouffes (4th). Israeli street food, pita and roasted cauliflower. Time Out: « € ». Open Sunday to Thursday noon to 11pm, Friday noon to 4pm, closed Saturday.

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Where each address sits

We geocoded the seven addresses with the French national address base and measured them against our database; distances are straight-line, and walking times follow our method (distance × 1.3, at 80 m a minute). Five of the seven are in the 3rd arrondissement and two in the 4th.

• Les Enfants Rouges. 69 metres from the Marché des Enfants-Rouges, 249 metres from the Museum of Hunting and Nature and 384 metres from the Picasso Museum. The nearest hotels in our base are Hôtel Jacques de Molay, 57 metres away, La Chambre du Marais, 79 metres, and Hôtel du Vieux Saule, 95 metres.
• Datil. 253 metres from the Museum of Hunting and Nature and 272 metres from the Musée des Arts et Métiers. Hôtel Jules & Jim is 8 metres away, and Hôtel du Haut Marais 66 metres.
• Parcelles. 241 metres from the Museum of Hunting and Nature and 261 metres from the Museum of Jewish Art and History. Hôtel Jules & Jim is 66 metres away and Experimental Marais 118 metres.
• Ogata. 172 metres from the Picasso Museum and 235 metres from the Marché des Enfants-Rouges. Maison Saintonge is 103 metres away, Hôtel du Petit Moulin 116 metres and Boudoir des Muses 119 metres.
• Bistrot des Tournelles. 121 metres from the Maison de Victor Hugo and 192 metres from the place des Vosges. Hôtel Bastille Spéria is 20 metres away and Hôtel de la Herse d’Or 97 metres.
• Bontemps. 154 metres from the Marché des Enfants-Rouges. La Chambre du Marais is 35 metres away and Hôtel Jacques de Molay 57 metres.
• Miznon Marais. 41 metres from the rue des Rosiers, 202 metres from the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris and 219 metres from the Cognacq-Jay Museum. The nearest hotels are Hôtel Dupond-Smith, 148 metres, Hôtel Caron de Beaumarchais, 170 metres, and Roi de Sicile Rivoli, 179 metres.

Counting by price band

The bands are those of Le Fooding and the Michelin Guide, and Time Out for Miznon; none is a menu price. Over €51: Les Enfants Rouges, Datil and Ogata. €36 to €50: Parcelles and the Bistrot des Tournelles. €16 to €35: Bontemps. Miznon is a single euro sign at Time Out. Among the three addresses the Michelin Guide cites, Datil is at the fourth band, « €€€€ », and Les Enfants Rouges and Parcelles at « €€€ ». In short, three of the seven sit in the highest Fooding band and two in the middle one.

Planning a meal around a visit

The three tables nearest the Museum of Hunting and Nature are Les Enfants Rouges, Datil and Parcelles, all within about 250 metres, and the Picasso Museum is closest to Ogata, at 172 metres. After the Maison de Victor Hugo or the place des Vosges, the Bistrot des Tournelles is 121 and 192 metres away; it serves dinner only, so it is a fit for an evening. For lunch near the rue des Rosiers, Miznon opens at noon every day except Saturday, and on Friday it closes at 4 p.m. Bontemps, beside the covered market, opens at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday, the earliest Sunday opening among the addresses whose hours we have.

Check the opening hours again before booking: the Fooding lists date from July 2024, its individual pages from 2025, and the official sites were read in October 2026 where they could be read.

Editorial sources

Every address except Miznon, which comes from Time Out Paris, appears on Le Fooding’s page on restaurants in the Marais. The Michelin Guide is cited for Les Enfants Rouges, Datil and Parcelles. Price bands are those of these publications; we found no priced menu.

Going further

For the falafel of rue des Rosiers, see our falafel page; for brunch, brunch in Le Marais. To sleep a step from a table, compare hotels in the 3rd arrondissement and in the 4th.