Italian Restaurants Paris
Just like in the rest of the western world, Italian food is popular in France and you will find a lot of Italian restaurants throughout Paris
And, as Parisians know good food and expect a lot from their chefs, you’ll find the cuisine is of a very high standard.
As well as the typical Italian dishes of pasta, pizza and risotto, you’ll find Italian takes on French favourites.
The ingredients are usually fresh with suppliers sending food from Italy to Paris, the menus are interesting and the prices are, if you avoid eating in the main tourist areas, good value.
And, because Paris is a city of restaurants, you can always find a good place to eat even if you haven’t made reservations.
Understanding The Menu
The similarity between the French and Italian languages means it’s not too difficult to translate common Italian food words into French, but here are some of the basics: pates is French for pizza, riz means rice and viande is meat. Pizza is, unsurprisingly, pizza.
Recommended Italian Restaurants In Paris
Italian restaurants in the center of Paris: the Les Halles area of central Paris contains a number of good Italian restaurants. For example, there’s L'Oliveto in Rue Des Dechargeurs (Metro Chatalet), which is a very charming restaurant with good quality food at very reasonable prices.
The 4th Arrondissement: further east in the Marais district is a charming little Florentine eaterie called “Caffe Boboli” in the very Italian sounding street the Rue Du Roi De Sicile (”street of the king of Sicily”). Run by two men from Florence, the Boboli serves food originating from the Tuscan region.
Down near the Eiffel tower, there’s a Mediterranean restaurant called “Le Sept”. As it serves pasta on it’s delicious lunch menus, I’ve included it amongst my recommendations. It’s well worth a visit if you’re sightseeing around lunchtime either at “Le Tour” or Invalides.
Finally, no guide to “Italian Restaurants Paris” can be complete without at least one “place to be seen”. In this case, it’s the “Pizza Da Mimmo” in the Boulevard de Magenta (in the 10th arrondissement). Here in this Neapolitan cantine you can rub shoulders with movie stars and politicians alike while combining your pasta with some posing.