The Best Restaurant in Champs-Élysees, Paris

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Style often wins out over substance around the Champs-Élysées, but a handful of restaurants continue to defy fashion. This part of Paris is home to many of the city's most ambitious chefs, whose restaurants are surrounded by palatial hotels, bourgeois apartments, embassies, and luxury boutiques. Some, such as Eric Frechon at Le Bristol's Epicure, offer sophisticated updates of French classics, whereas others, like Pierre Gagnaire, constantly push culinary boundaries in the manner of a mad scientist. A few solid bistros survive here, notably the Art Deco Chez Savy.

LiLi

$$$$ | Challiot

The operatically beautiful LiLi, in the Peninsula Paris hotel, puts sophisticated Cantonese cuisine in its rightful place—the gastronomic center of the world. The menu features all the classics, raised to the status of haute cuisine: small plates of dim sum (seafood, vegetable, or pork dumplings) alongside more substantial fare like fried rice studded with market-fresh vegetables, succulent Sichuan shrimp, and barbecued suckling pig. The chef's signature crème de mangue laced with pomelo pearls is an ethereal ending to an exceptional meal. At €75, the prix-fixe lunch menu is a wonderful introduction to this timeless cuisine.

Cantonese $$$$ Prix-Fixe Lunch Dinner
19 rue Kléber, Paris, 75016, France
01–58–12–28–88
www.liliparis.fr
Known For
  • Authentic Peking duck and gourmet dim sum
  • Cocktails at the Bar Kléber
  • Reservations essential
Restaurant Details
Closed Sun. and Mon.
Reservations essential

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