It’s no secret that Parisian chef Cyril Lignac has a weakness for Japanese cuisine, as proved by his establishment of the Le Bar des Prés, well known by Parisian foodies. The menu will have you wide-eyed: goma-ae with fresh green veggies, lobster from Brittany and a sesame cream; crispy cakes, crab with madras curry, avocados, and green lime (an Instagram star); sashimi of yellowtail or red tuna, maki of jellied eel, matcha chiffon cake, chocolate fondue…. Not to mention the cocktails, complete with a Tokyo Garden, (Hendrick’s gin, shizo leaf, sake, yuzu, lychee juice) which awakens the senses, and a Summer Julip (Bache Gabrielsen cognac, peach puree, fresh verbena, Montenegro) which calms them.

The restaurant is decorated with exposed piping, wicker lights, a long backlit wooden bar, and peacock feather pattern benches immersed in semi-darkness, which plays it nicely did-you-see-me-as-I-see-you. It leans on the bar, with a cozy ambience. The waiter and service are good.

Detailed Information:
Address: 25 Rue du Dragon, 75006 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 43 25 87 67
Website: https://www.bardespres.com/fr/paris/
Open hours: Mon-Sun: 12:00–14:30, 19:00–23:00

Visiting this restaurant with a great view of Passage Saint-Anne will be a beautiful experience for clients. With Julien Osage and Yujiro Yagi at its helm, Kanade transports its guest to Tokyo. Kanadé specializes in Japanese cuisine. The Japanese classics, all freshly prepared on-site, include tempura eggs, grilled eggplant with miso, bowls of fresh udon, sautéed tofu and avocado, and sashimi prepared at the chef’s discretion, and more. Everything is excellent. Nicely cooked parfait, cheesecakes and fruitcakes are also served hereThe wine list, which marries French and Japanese bottles, features a prune wine that is worth a taste.

This spot is famous for its great service and friendly staff, that is always ready to help you. The divine decor and lovely atmosphere let guests feel relaxed here. Based on the guests' feedback on Google, this restaurant deserved 4.8.

Detailed Information:
Address: 8 Rue de Ventadour, 75001 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 42 60 63 65
Website: https://restaurant-kanade-paris.jimdofree.com/
Open hours: Tue-Sat: 12:00–14:00, 19:00–22:00

Restaurant EnYaa is a Japanese gastronomy restaurant located in Paris. They tried to create a Japanese ambience - simple, rational et sober with very little decoration but also authentic and chic using local French products. A place where the refinement of Japanese cuisine meets the elegance of Saké and the festivity of Champagne. Their Kimua chairs and stools as well as their bistro tables Emea furnish the restaurant. At once a sake bar, champagne bar, and expert in sushi, EnYaa can be found a few steps from the Royal Palace in Paris.

With chef Daisuke Endo manning the controls, the tasting menu combines sashimi of melting tuna, vegetable tempura, mackerel sushi and caramelized duck. When browsing the regular menu, grilled salmon marinated with white miso rubs elbows against the veal tataki and the chef’s selection of sashimi. On top of tasting all incredible UMAMI, you receive the experience of a peaceful hospitable ambience which leads you to joyful communication at the table among business settings, friends and families with decent prices for refined qualities. The lot is accompanied by vintage spirits, and the finest sakes direct from Japan.

Detailed Information:
Address: 37 Rue de Montpensier, 75001 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 40 26 78 25
Website: http://www.enyaa-paris.com/
Open hours: Tue-Sat: 12:00–14:00, 19:00–22:00, Sun: 13:00–19:00

Under the expert eye of Chef Hideki Endo and his team of sushi masters, Matsuhisa Niwa Paris brings a highly contemporary vision of Japanese cuisine. Across from a zen garden, hidden in the Royal Monceau, these tables serve a range of the best Japanese cuisine the French capital has to offer every Thursday and Friday. During the intimate dinner prepared by Executive Chef Hideki Endo, the dishes crafted by his spiritual father, Nobu Matsuhisa, reveal all their Peruvian and Japanese flavours and are complemented by Maison Ruinart’s bubbles.

With only eight seats, there are only seven dishes on the menu: eel sushi, sashimi of bream, melting black cod,… Chef Endo also uses exquisite delicacies originating from France to create dishes such as seaweed tacos with black truffle, crispy oysters with caviar and Wagyu beef ravioli with foie gras. All dishes are enhanced by a selection of sake and cocktails designed to pair perfectly with Nobu’s culinary masterpieces.

Detailed Information:
Address: 37 Av. Hoche, 75008 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 42 99 88 16
View detail: https://bit.ly/3vnPE1y
Open hours: Mon-Sun: 12:00–15:00, 19:00–00:00

On the ground floor of the Pavillon Ledoyen, L’Abysse is the sushi restaurant of the 3-star Michelin chef Yannick Alleno. Entrusting the reigns to chef Yasunari Okazaki, everything is prepared in true Japanese style while respecting the greatest rules of the art. From the fishing techniques of Ike-Jime to the maturation of the fish or the precise choice of rice, nothing is left to chance by this master of sushi.

A distinct know-how attitude combined with refined French technique makes for a truly epic tasting menu (cream of sweet almonds with a sprinkle of salt, shark fin soup, tofu with green peas, trout roe, and then of course the finely cut sashimi which precedes the next course of six sublime sushi rolls, whose recipes evolve according to the chef’s mood. The restaurant also has a plethora of desserts, all of which are equally delicious: light cheesecake roasted peaches with matcha, strawberries in a sugar crust with seaweed,... This place is great to сelebrate your anniversary. The waitstaff is professional that's what makes this spot so nice. The divine decor and charming ambiance let visitors feel relaxed here.

Detailed Information:
Address: 8 Av. Dutuit, 75008 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 53 05 10 30
View detail: https://bit.ly/3Ma0hvB
Open hours: Mon-Fri: 12:00–14:00, 19:00–22:00

Blueberry is a creative, unconventional sushi restaurant, with bright pop colours on the walls and on your plate. The mood is set by the house cocktails – like the ‘Dawn over Tokyo’ – that mix well-known flavours like Martini or Saké with less familiar tastes like that of purple-leaved shisho. The results are fresh, light and fruity. Blueberry has a fun atmosphere and a meal that's a conversation point.

Makis (rolled sushi) is Blueberry’s great speciality. They're served in sixes, each more weirdly named than the last (Les Trublions, Rackam le Rouge, Iroquois, Transsibérien, etc.). They are elaborate, well thought through, and unusual – not for sushi purists. The menu also has the Unagiii, an assortment of grilled eel, prawn tempura, avocado, cucumber and dried tuna arranged in a wreath studded with sesame seeds. The crunch of the prawn matches that of the cucumber, while the eel brings flavour. They also have the Ponyo, the sesame crêpe, a nice variant on the standard seaweed version, and were very impressed by the execution of the sesame sauce. The same goes for the rest of the sushi, which offers some great combinations – prawn and mango, salmon and coriander – finished with excellent sauces. In the izakaya part of the menu (traditionally, snacks to go with drinks), there are things like spicy salmon tartare with flying fish egg. At dessert, there's a selection of iced mochi rice cakes in vanilla, green tea, blueberry, and cherry blossoms flavours.

Detailed Information:
Address: 6 Rue du Sabot, 75006 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 42 22 21 56
Website: https://www.blueberrymakibar.com/en/
Open hours: Tue-Fri: 12:00–14:30, 19:00–22:30, Sat: 12:30–15:00, 19:00–22:30

Nakagawa is a Japanese venue in the middle of Belleville’s Chinatown, which draws in passers-by with gentle aromas of grilled eel, miso soup, and tempura. Inside, there's a small room with a view onto the Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste and a few seats at the bar facing the chef. On the lunch menu are basic set menus (sushi-soup-salad-rice) from €11-€15, and some more complex ones that go up to around €20 ahead.

The sushi is seriously high quality, the salmon and prawns firm and fresh (with the wasabi already layered between the rice and fish). There are also some hot breaded dishes like pork tonkatsu and chicken kara ague, accompanied by things like fried tofu, pickled cucumber, or natto (sour and sticky fermented soya). You can eat with Japanese beer, rice or jasmine tea (€1.50 for endless free refills) or an excellent fruity sake served hot by the glass (€2.50 for 5cl), pichet or bottle. To finish up, a few desserts featuring classic Japanese flavours: cakes and ice cream flavoured with green tea or red beans. Affordable and delicious, Nakagawa is a very pleasant surprise.

Detailed Information:
Address: 9 Rue Lassus, 75019 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 42 08 43 22
View detail: https://bit.ly/3M1bOgI
Open hours: Mon-Sat: 12:00–14:00, 19:30–22:15

This tiny sushi bar, Le Bar à sushi Izumi, has not more than 20 seats punching far above its weight in proportion to its size. It quickly made a name for itself when it opened in 2011, educating Parisian diners about the delights of fatty tuna, eel and wagyu beef.

The availability of the tuna depends on the market, but the other two-star products are always on the menu. The eel arrives still smoking, perfectly grilled, swiped with a delicious sweet sauce then arranged in a chirachi bowl with fish, omelette and prawns on a warm bed of rice and sesame. Sushi and maki are also on the menu, all prepared by the masterful Japanese chef. Thick slices of colourful, flavour-filled fish signal the really good stuff. Then the wagyu beef, with its remarkable texture and nutty flavour. Served as tataki (a sort of half-cooked carpaccio) or as sushi, it almost feels like fish in the mouth. Have it with one of the sakes – a fruity Tatenokawa, perhaps, a flavourful Muraoka, an intense Kenbishi, or a taster of all three. None of this comes cheap, but it’s the right price for the quality.

Detailed Information:
Address: 55 Bd des Batignolles, 75008 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 45 22 43 55
Website: https://www.lebarasushi.com/
Open hours: Tue-Sat: 12:00–14:00, 19:30–22:00

Toritcho is a real izakaya, one of those bars of the people where customers nibble on tapas-style small plates while having a drink, and one of the oldest and most authentic Japanese restaurants in Paris. Old beer posters, lucky figurines, mock swords and rackets from the traditional game hagoita decorate the walls: madame works the till while monsieur takes a relaxed yet efficient approach to service.

On the varied menu, you can find yakitori made from chicken meat, liver, gizzards and skin, or from vegetables that you can order salted or in a sweet and sour sauce. Then irreproachably fresh sushi, light and airy tempura, raw tuna, shredded seaweed, sunomono de wakame with calamari, octopus and prawn, or even agedashi-dofu – fried tofu served in a dashi bouillon. Nothing is particularly well presented, but everything is good. It's busy and popular with Parisians of all stripes, especially at weekends, and in the early evening particularly the Japanese clientele stop by – they'll buy a bottle or something which then waits for them on each visit, a real izakaya tradition.

Detailed Information:
Address: 47 Rue du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 43 21 29 97
Website: https://toritcho.com/optin23878124
Open hours: Tue-Fri: 12:00–23:00, Sat: 12:00–14:30, 19:00–22:00, Sun: 19:00–22:00

Philippe Starck’s latest venture in Paris is a rock-Japanese outfit occupying a 500m2 space just off the Champs-Elysées. Miss Kô has been set up like a narrow Chinatown street, bustling and colourful at night, with open kitchens at the end where chefs work away beneath an array of suspended works and neon lights. Giant paper lanterns are everywhere, forests of umbrellas hung over the tables, and there's a 26-meter table made up of a mosaic of screens, across which a dragon turns somersaults. It’s permanent visual chaos, which can become wearing. If you want something a bit easier on the eyes, go for one of the dining room tables or the comfortable sofas near the exterior terrace.

All this décor excitement doesn’t take away from the fact that you have come here to eat. There are a dozen dishes, of which the star is a beef tataki at €29, which is a sort of Japanese carpaccio with teriyaki sauce, fried shiitake mushrooms and purée perfumed with ginger. The ‘black salmon & Kô’ burger at €19 is equally alluring, the bread coloured black with squid ink and garnished with avocado, mizuna, gravlax and tempura-fried green beans. Other classic dishes revisited by chef Fabrice Monot include bo bun, tartare, salads and pad thai. For lighter meals, creative sushi (8 for approximately €12) goes perfectly with a cocktail (classic or based on sake or soshu) or bubble tea. The bar with hip DJs and the terrace in summer are places to see and be seen.

Detailed Information:
Address: 49-51 Av. George V, 75008 Paris
Phone Number: +33 1 53 67 84 60
View detail: https://bit.ly/3M9ytrc
Open hours: Mon-Sun: 12:00–02:00