Best Price/Quality Paris Bistros/Restos of 2010

Methodology: The numbers below represent a ratio of my rating(s) of a resto on a scale of 0-10 divided by the price per couple of a luncheon(s); higher is better, lower is a worse deal. Warning/beware/attention: Price/Quality Qualité/Prix all depends. For example, on December 10th a good eating pal and I ate at Monsieur le Prince in the 6th. Now, were we calculating the bill as my Mother and her crowd did at Schrafft’s in the 1950s, instead of a bill of 88 E in a restaurant I rated as a 5.2, earning it only a 59 on the prix/qualité index, his meal at 23 E would merit a 113 and mine a paltry 04. “Lies, damned lies, and statistics” indeed. Of my top 11 new places: 92 Jeanne A.: 42 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 11th, Tel: 01.43.55.09.49. Metro: Parmentier. 81 Les Grandes Tables du 104, aka Street Food: 104, rue d’Aubervilliers / 5, rue Curial, 19th, Tel: 01.40.37.10.07. Métro: Riquet, Crimée 80 Saturne: 17 rue Notre Dame des Victoires,  2nd, Tel: 01.42.60.31.90. Métro: Bourse 75.5 Mini Palais: Mini Palais is located in the Petit Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 8th, Tel: 01.42.56.42.42. Métro: Champs-Elysées-Clémenceau 74 L’Agapé: 51, rue Jouffroy d’Abbans, 17th, Tel: 01.42.27.20.18. Métro: Wagram 73 La Régalade St Honoré: 123, Rue St Honoré, 1st, Tel: 01.42.21.92.40. Métro: Louvre-Rivoli 69 Concert de la Cuisine: 14, rue Nelaton, 15th, Tel: 01.40.58.10.15. Métro: Bir Hakeim 68 Spring: 6 Rue Bailleul, 1st, Tel: 01.45.96.05.72. Métro: Louvre-Rivoli 67 Moustache: 3 Rue Sainte-Beuve, 6th,  Tel: 01.42.22.56.65. Métro: Vavin 63 Chez La Vieille – Adrienne – which exists differently today): 1, rue Bailleul, 1st, Tel: 01.42.60.15.78. Métro: Louvre-Rivoli 57.5 La Régalade (original): 49 av. Jean-Moulin, 14th, Tél: 01.45.45.68.58. Métro: Porte d’Orléans The next 12: 79 Philou:  12 Avenue Richerand, 10th, Tel: 01.42.39.04.73. Métro: République 78 Le Pavillion du Lac Parc des Buttes Chaumont: 19th, Tel: 01.42.00.07.21. Métro Laumière 77 L’Agrume: 15, rue des Fossés Saint-Marcel, 5th, Tel: 01.43.31.86.48. Métro: Les Gobelins / Saint-Marcel 76.6 Chez Grenouille: 52, rue Blanche (rue Moncey), 9th, Tel: 01.42.81.34.07. Métro: Liège 74 Casse Noix: 56, rue de la Fédération, 15th, Tel: 01.45.66.09.01. Métro:  Bir-Hakeim or Dupleix 61 Villa Victoria: 52, Rue Lamartine, Tel: 01.48.78.60.05. Métro: ND de Lorette 60 Chalbens & Tico: 33 rue de la Chine, 20th, Tel: 01.40.33.48.01. Métro: Pelleport 58.5 Bistro Volnay: 8 Rue Volney, 75002, Tel: 01.42.61.06.65. Métro: Opéra 50.6 Chez Georges: 273 bd. Pereire, 17th, Tel: 01.45.74.31.00. Métro: Porte Maillot 45 Dessirier: 9 Place du Maréchal Juin, 17th, Tel: 01.42.27.82.14. Métro: Pereire 41 l’Agapé Bistro: 51 Rue Jouffroy d’Abbans, 17th, Tel:  01.42.27.20.18. Métro: Ternes A few more (both outliers) thrown in for fun: 126 – l’Alcove – best deal of the year – rated 5.3 but only costing 42 E a couple: 46, rue Didot, 14th, Tel: 01.45.45.92.02. Métro: Pernety 26 – La Tour d’Argent – worst bargain of the year – 5.5 costing 208 E a couple: 15 Quai Tournelle, 75005 And the 13 Golden Oldies where we still eat: 107 Astier  – 44 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 11th 100 Le Repaire de Cartouche – 99 Rue Amelot, 11th 95.23 Frenchie – 5 Rue du Nil, 2nd 91.8 Le Marcab – 25 Rue Vaugirard, 15th 82 MBC + l’Agapé – 51 Rue Jouffray d’Abbans, 17th 77.7 Bistro Paul Bert – 18,rue Paul-Bert, 11th 74.6 Ze Kitchen Galerie – 4 Rue Grands Augustins, 6th 69 Fines Gueules – 43 Rue Croix des Petits Champs, 1st 67.3 Le Gaigne – 12 Rue Pecquay, 4th 65.5 Le 122 – 122 Rue de Grenelle, 7th 64.8 Rech – 62, av. des Ternes, 17th ©by John Talbott 2010 Please visit our Amazon affiliate store for your shopping. Bonjour Paris has hand-selected some of our favorite travel gifts and gadgets for our readers… plus many Paris- and France-related books for children, travelers, scholars, and dreamers. zChocolat: “World’s Finest Chocolates by World-Champion Chocolatiers.” zChocolat’s selection is handmade by world-champion French chocolatiers following a 400-year-old tradition of passion and zealous adherence to purity. A single bite is an instant of pure seduction and sensory bliss one has never experienced before.