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Benoit vs Astrance

Benoit and L'Astrance are both highly recommended by experts. Overall, L'Astrance ranks significantly better than Benoit. L'Astrance scores 97 with approval from 15 reviewers including Lonely Planet, Time Out and Frommer's.

Benoit
Benoit
8 / 10
20 rue Saint-Martin, 75004 Paris
From $33 /night
Fodor's Fodor's
"It's a splurge to be here, so go all the way and top off your meal with the caramelized tarte tatin or a rum-doused baba." Full review
Insight Guides Insight Guides
"This celebrated vintage bistro, long renowned for its excellent cooking and very high prices, fell into the Alain Ducasse fold in 2004, but the master chef promised not to change its style."
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"The menu favors elegant French favorites like duck pâte, roast pigeon, and escargots in their shells with garlic butter." Full review
Zagat Zagat
3.8
"A "veritable icon", this century-old address in the 4th, "revived" by Alain Ducasse, is "still one of the most dependable" for "high-class bistro" fare." Full review
Gayot Gayot
14.0
"The chef turns out escargots in their shells with garlic butter and herbs; tête-de-veau, or head of veal, in a traditional ravigote vinaigrette sauce; boeuf à la parisienne; and good cassoulet." Full review
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Astrance
Astrance
9 / 10
4 rue Beethoven, Paris
From $0 /night
Concierge Concierge
"For fashionable foodies, a meal at this small, split-level dining room with silver-painted walls on a quiet residential street near the Trocadero is guaranteed Nirvana. In fact, some of..."
Fodor's Fodor's
"Barbot's cooking has such an ethereal quality that it's worth the considerable effort of booking a table." Full review
Frommer's Frommer's
"Pascal Barbot is a true culinary force in the kitchen." Full review
Travel + Leisure Travel + Leisure
"Reresentative dishes include grilled lamb with miso-lacquered eggplant, sautéed pigeon, and turbot flavored with lemon and ginger." Full review
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There is no à la carte menu here, only a lunch menu and seasonal dinner menu, full tasting menu, which is what most diners choose.
Zagat Zagat
4.7
"Chef Pascal Barbot's "modern, elegant" Haute Cuisine reaches the "pinnacle of grace" in his "incredibly imagined and prepared" plates "accompanied perfectly" by "well-chosen wines"." Full review
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