Paris is known to be one of the best culinary centers of Europe. The business of restaurants started back two centuries ago in Paris. Despite being so old in culinary fashion, it is considered by some people as second place after Lyon in France for better dinning. Rather in Paris, one can find out hundreds of restaurants with beautifully carved out interior designs and executed carts and menus providing exotic French as well as foreign cuisines. For a reasonable dinning there exist a hundred of traditional bistros while having their sidewalk terraces providing choice of rather simple food and meals on a reasonable rates and prices.

Some restaurants in the city generally are too small and have their tables their close together with each other. Sometime when restaurant becomes too crowed one has to sit there beside strangers even at the same table. Trendy restaurants in Paris require reservation in weeks in not months. Try to get a reservation for lunch that generally is considered easier and less expensive. While for an easy to manage eating budget in Paris one can have breakfast at a restaurant at in hotel consisting of some croissants, coffee and a piece of fruit.

There one can have a walking lunch out from the Paris’ many food stands, a panino in the centre of the city, a crepe from a crepe stand, a felafel pita or take out Chinese in the Marais. Traiteurs serving Chinese food are ever-present in the city every place for cheaper lunch and there many patisseries sell coffee and sandwiches on a very reasonable prices. These all are quite cheap, easy and allow a person to maximize one’s sightseeing and walking time, where a person can enjoy tasty local or ethnic food.

Self catering is also a very lucrative option for Budget travelers as they definitely would like range and quality of products on offer at the open air markets. Some of the poplar open air markets in Paris are Rue Mouffetard, Place Buci, Place de la Madeleine and over the Canal Saint-Martin in the 11th or in any other arrondissement. Some of the best food stores there are Lafayette Gourmet in the Galeries Lafayette or La Grande Epicerie in the luxury department store Le Bon Marche. There you can have a large variety of wines there more you can try them at stores like Nicolas or Le Relais de Bacchus.

It you are a sea food lover than you should try up moules frites, oyster’s sea snails and other delicacies. Meat specialties involve venison (deer), boar, and French specialties like lamb, veal, beef, and pork. For Kosher Dining, the city has the largest number of kosher restaurants in any European city.  For vegetarian dinning Paris has many nice excellent vegetarian restaurants like Aquarius in the 14th, and Le Grenier de Notre-Dame in the 5th, or La Victoire Suprême du Coeur in the 1st arrondissement. The famous South Indian chain Saravana Bhavan has their branch near Gare Du Nord. However, below is provided the list of some of the best restaurant in Paris with a brief provided for them.

•    Pavillon Ledoyen: Situated in a historic pavilion situated off the Champs-Elysées near place de la Concorde and surrounded by greenery, this dining room calls for   delicious meals by chef Christian Le Squer. ent. Its main dishes include turbot with truffled mashed potatoes and sole sautéed in sage butter and topped with finely sliced cucumber and fresh ginger.

•    Pierre Gagnaire: This haute-cuisine restaurant provides culinary items prepared by renowned chef Pierre Gagnaire, who is known worldwide for the French cuisine. More you can try there the tantalizing desserts, as well.

•    L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon: This black-and-red restaurant, mixes up Spanish and Japanese atmospheres and invites patrons to sit at a bar before an open kitchen, where can see culinary preparations and can be served immediately at an upscale counter. It is better suited for intimate dining rather than group meals.

•    Le Bristol: This beautifully hotel offer guest cuisine in elegant surroundings in period from November to March, the winter restaurant cozies things up with paneled walls, gilt accents, and hand-painted panels.

•    Les Ambassadeurs: Les Ambassadeurs offers top-flight dining on several fronts overlooking towards spots like place de la Concorde and the National Assembly; the restaurant provides one of the best views of the city. Mirrored walls, chandeliers, crystal, silver, fresh roses, and a heavenly painted ceiling grant a luxury seldom seen but often remembered.

Bars and Drinking in Paris

There the same case exists for bars in Paris there exists a variety to meet with others need and requirements. There are bars in the city that serves from babies’ bottle, to ultra luxurious clubs.  There are many ubiquitous dive bars in the city as well as trendy clubs as some of them are being described below with a brief.

•    Port de Tolbiac: By the river Seine it is a center for nightlife when an electronic music cooperative there opens Batofar. Presently there are a number of boats based around Caribbean theme having an Indian restaurant over there.

•    Saint Germain des Prés: This area has the two most famous cafés in the world, Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots, and both are for the tourist that can afford higher prices. Moreover, there are around hundred of place there in the area where one can enjoy their drinks.

•    The Marais: Marais has a quite a large number of trendier new bars primarily in the 4th and to a lesser extent the 3rd with a few old charmers tossed into the mix. The bars in the area generally have a decidedly gay crowd, but are also friendly for strangers too.

•    Bastille: It is a very active nightlife zone situated on the northeast of Place de Bastille centered around rue de Lappe, rue de la Roquette, rue du Faubourg SaintAntoine and rue de Charonne in the 11th. Many bars closes to Bastille generally have a North, Central, or South American theme.

There is a shopping arena and the shopping malls in the Paris that makes it exclusive for shoppers for being a place with lots of shopping extra curricular activities there. The charm and glitter at Paris shopping center makes it an exclusive center for Haute Couture shops that are found on Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore and Avenue Montaigne at the 8th arrondissement. So many a shopping attractions and shopping reasons, Paris is considered as one of the great fashion centers in the Western World and has a massive reputation for its fashion articles and products sold in the market in farthest and nearest places like New York, London and Milan that makes it interestingly a shopper’s delight.

High end fashion activities, however, can be seen at the 8th arrondisement. In summer, there is no much better place for shopping than having boutiques in and around Canal St-Martin, or revolving around the impressive arcades of the historically important Palais-Royal, which are beautifully enclosed purchases swinging on and around each arm. However, one interesting thing to learn about is that it is surrounded entirely by Jewish neighborhood, and it is found that most of the shops remain open there even on Sundays.  The store in this particular area has very intimate and very interesting boutiques, there in and around area, especially, with Parisian style of clothing stores. You will no doubt get something always interesting there on the street worth apprising and looking.
Another great spot for shopping in Paris is the Sèvres Babylone.  That is the particular area there too exists and has survival are the regions like Le Bon Marchée 7th, particularly rue de Cherche Midi 6th. The area there too has many major fashion centers like Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Versace that too has many other smaller private boutiques which are famous for handmade clothing and many other things to be loved and liked by most of the shopping enthusiasts. However, some famous centers for shopping in Paris are as following.

•    Louvre-Tuileries and Faubourg Saint-Honoré: The Faubourg Saint-Honoré is a center stage for Paris design and fashion. It is with an integral association is part of the Louvre-Tuileries neighborhood and is hardly a few blocks away from the Opera Garnier and the Paris departmental store block on  Boulevard Haussmann. The Saint-Honoré fashion district lies under the occupation of classic designers like Versace, Hermes, and Yves Saint Laurent, it also has trendy concepts from persons like Colette.

•    Paris Department Stores District: Paris department stores district is known for being its own class and fashion accessories found out there. Galeries Lafayette and Printemps department stores has good and commendable hold around the  Boulevard Haussmann area with real Belle Epoque grandeur, themed around the best designer collections and goods for men and women, gourmet food shopping, home design, jewelry, and extensive hardware for a classified designs for variety and association for consumer delights.

•    The Marais: The renowned historic Marais quarter is known to be the primary center for shoppers those always looks for unique and finely crafted not to mention antique art lobbies and lovers. There you can shop for better equipped and varied Place des Vosges, jewelry shopping at boutiques like Satellite on Rue des Francs-Bourgeois, or can look out for boutiques featuring up and latest designers like Rue des Rosiers.

•    Avenue Montaigne and Avenue des Champs-Elysées: Avenue Montaigne and Avenue des Champs-Elysées creates one of the hottest shopping hubs in Paris.   Montaigne is the best shopping center with extraordinary and state of the Art designers like Chanel and Dior lining the street. The Champs-Elysées features extraordinary names like Louis Vuitton and is also a major spot for shopping at the trendy global chains like Zara.

•    Saint-Ouen Flea Market: The Saint-Ouen flea market is the largest market in the city. It is situated at the very northern tip of Paris and is very compulsory shopping street in Paris. While a slightest journey of the place would put you across the opportunity to select from antique furniture, odd objects, or vintage clothes. However, on weekends you can face massive crowd at the market so you should avoid traveling there on weekends.

•    Saint-Germain-des-Prés: This is a place for intellectuals who just love too sit at forgotten cafes. St.-Germain-des-Prés has both urbanisms as well as sophistication of BCBG’s (yuppies). Sonia Rykiel and Paco Rabanne have different boutiques there and it is too famous for being a popular departmental store. Le Bon Marché too include a gourmet market that is too famous for eating habits and items there in the market where a person should always pay a visit.

•    Les Halles and Rue de Rivoli: It is a huge outdoor food market around Châtelet-les Halles and was transformed as a major shopping center around the 20th century. There Les Halles is a spectacular underground mall, where global and leading chain stores are located. Rue de Rivoli is much the same. In the Rue Montorgueil area, there are situated exemplary contemporary boutiques abound consisting classes like Barbara Bui and young cutting-edge designers.

•    Flea Markets: Paris has 3 popular flea-markets, situated on the outer circle of the central city. The most renowned of these markets are the Marché aux Puces de St-Ouen, Métro: Porte de Clignancourt. The nest day to visit these markets is Saturday and Sunday. The best times to roam around the Flea Markets are spring and summertime, when the area is more exciting and exorbitant.

The monuments in Paris are towering, graceful and majestic and real treat to a visitor who is traveling to France. However to number of monuments in Paris, one there can be added to a huge list of places to be visited there and some of the major monuments and buildings in Paris have been briefed here:

•   Arc de Triomphe: This is a 50 meter high monument located at the center of the Place de l’Étoile, commemorating the victories of France in wars and in respect of people who sacrificed their life for the cause of France. It is situated at the western corner of the Champs- Élysées. This arch pays honors to the war soldier who fought during the era of Napoleonic Wars. The building was developed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806. It is the second largest triumphal arch in existence and was inspired by the Roman Arch of Titus.

ArcDe Triomphe

•   The Conciergerie: It is an earlier royal palace and prison in Paris, France situated on the west of the Île de la Cité, near the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. It is part of the larger complex which is being known as the Palais de Justice and is still used for judicious purposes and tasks. During the French Revolution hundred of prisoners were being taken from La Conciergerie to be executed on the guillotine at a number of locations around Paris.

•    The Eiffel Tower: As old as going back to 1889 it is an iconic tower situated on the Champ de Mars in Paris and established itself as global icon of France and one of the renowned structures around the world. It is the tallest building in the Paris and is named after its designer engineer Gustave Eiffel it was constructed as an entrance Arch for 1889 World’s Fair. Its entire height is around 324 meter that is about 1,063 feet tall. For a visitor tower has three levels.

Eiffel Tower

• Les Invalides: This entire complex is devoted to museums and monuments as related to military history of France.  It is situated at 7th arrondissement of Paris. Among the museums housed in the complex the prominent ones are Musée de l’Armée, the military museum of the Army of France, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs, and the Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine. It is also burial site of some of the legendary France war heroes, especially, the Napoleon Bonaparte.

• The Louvre: The museum situated at the Lovre Palace that started in construction as fortress under Philip II is one of the world’s largest and most visited museums.  It is a central landmark of Paris, France and is situated on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). The museum was inaugurated on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings. Entire collection of Museum is divided into eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.

Paris Louvre Pyramid

•    Musee d’Orsay: This is a museum situated at Paris, France at the left bank of the river Seine enclosed in an abandoned railway station.  In the museum collection of French art pieces dating from 1848 to 1915 are kept that consisted of pieces like paintings, sculptures, furniture and photography. It is better admired for its collection of  impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces by painters as
Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin and Van Gogh.

•    Montmartre: It is an old district of Paris on a hill containing the Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Place du Tertre. It is 130 meters high. Apart from Basilica, it has massive reputation being as night club district. There many artists have studios or they worked around the community of Montmartre like as Salvador Dalí, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh. It is connected to by metro line 2 stations of Anvers, Pigalle and Blanche and the line 12 stations of Pigalle, Abbesses, Lamarck – Caulaincourt and Jules Joffrin.

•    Notre Dame de Paris (Cathedral of Notre Dame): It is a Gothic Roman Catholic Roman cathedral situated on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. It has reputation of being one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture in France and in Europe. It was among the first buildings in the world that have employed flying buttress the arched exterior supports in architecture of the building.

Notre Dame DeParis

•    The Panthéon: It is a building situated at Latin Quarter in Paris and keeps remains of the distinguished French citizens and personalities. This building showcases an example of neoclassicism based on the Pantheon in Rome. Located in the 5th arrondissement on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, the Panthéon looks out over all of Paris.

Panthéon

Most visitors traveling to France love to stay in Paris for city being favorable in terms of  tourist attractions, climatic conditions, activities and things to do such as shopping, dining in restaurants, sightseeing opportunities, good accommodation and available transport systems. The city has grown into a tourist destination and you would not help noticing the fascinating rich culture, fashion and style about everything in this city.

When it comes to attractions, Paris has a variety in terms of monuments, parks, gardens, shops, historical buildings and landmarks, museums and other cultural sites. These are places suitable for all travelers whether single or in groups, leisure or business. You can find attractions to enjoy time as a family or have a romantic time on a honeymoon. Most of these attractions have   historical values, for example, the museums and other historical sites that have the history of people of France.

Every Paris visitor will get a suitable hotel to take care of his/her accommodation. They are both cheap and expensive luxury hotels and you can select a hotel according to your favorite Paris location too. You can identify good places to stay as a family or as a group and hold family events. There are so many places to stay in Paris and the hotels offer variety of services and amenities to make visitors feel at home.

Generally, the climatic conditions in Paris are conducive but you can always check the current weather conditions online to determine whether it is conducive to you or not. Shopping in Paris is an exciting activity and many visitors find good deals for their items of interests. There are many shopping centers with shopping malls, departmental stores, flea markets, bookshops, supermarkets and many more. Shop at the open air markets in Paris and discover unique items at fair prices. There are also movie theaters, operas and cinemas to keep you busy since you can catch a movie or a performance anytime.

The transport system does not disappoint and there are well equipped airports, car rental companies, train services, bus service and many other transport options to use to move around in Paris. Cheap or low cost travel options are always available. The restaurants will let you sample some of the French cuisines for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Enjoy an interesting night at the popular Paris nightclubs and participate in a variety of local events such as shows and festivals.