Best burgers in Paris
Discover where to eat the best burgers in Paris
The best burgers in Paris are a tall order, in a city devoted to fine dining and elite restaurants. But our hunt for perfect patties and fantastic fries turned up more than snooty gourmet versions of the American classic (though a few of those as well). The obsession with fine ingredients that has gripped burger-makers in New York and London for the last few years has caught on in the French capital too, with happy results: Our 'Best burgers in Paris' list includes full-on American diners, signature restaurant versions and even a jolly burger truck, proving that French versions of US cuisines are much more than just a load of old viande hachée.
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La Maison Mère
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
If you somehow managed to miss La Maison Mère throughout the media frenzy around its opening in January 2011, it’s time to get up to speed. First, forget any ideas of a traditional French kitchen:
- 4 rue de Navarin, 9e
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Blend
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Parisians have officially gone burger bonkers: After the Camion qui Fume (a mobile gourmet burger van) and Big Fernand (an über-trendy take-away burger joint in the 10th), Blend has opened its doors,
- 44 rue d'Argout, 2e
Big Fernand
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
A brilliant little burger joint, which takes the traditional American burger and gives it the French terroir treatment. Nowhere’s been left out, with regional specialities from all over France wedged
- 55 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 9e
Le Camion qui Fume
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Fancy one of the best burgers in Paris? Forget your posh napkins, tablecloths and seating, the Camion Qui Fume is Paris’s first American-style burger truck, run by Californian Kristin Frederick; and
- 200 quai de Valmy, 10e
Breakfast in America
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 1/4
Even in Paris, the city of haute cuisine and knock-your-socks-off Brasserie fare, there comes a time when nothing but bacon, fried eggs, juicy burgers and fluffy pancakes drizzled in maple syrup will
- 17 rue des Ecoles, 5e
American Kitchen
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Opposite the Hôpital Saint-Louis, a handful of restaurants cluster in a charming collective that’s well-known to residents and regulars of the 10th. Among the bouquet of enticing smells, the red
- 49 rue Bichat, 10e
Supernature
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Who said eating healthily was boring? Certainly not the many regulars who flock each afternoon (and on Sunday for brunch) to this tiny canteen in the 9th arrondissement. There’s no overriding organic
- 12 rue de Trévise, 9e
Coffee Parisien
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
When the grand old dames and moody wannabe writers tire of Café de Flore, they head to Coffee Parisien. Just steps from the Mabillon metro, this noisy, busy diner is never empty. Behind the bar,
- 4 rue Princesse, 6e
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