Le Grand Café des Capucines

A brief history of Paris's great restaurants: Grand Café Capucines, in the heart of the boulevards

Founded in 1875 opposite the Opéra Garnier, Grand Café Capucines has embodied the soul of the great Parisian brasseries for a century and a half, with its Belle Époque splendor, seafood, French classics and continuous boulevard service.

A restaurant open at night? Our 5 best addresses.

3 a.m., coming home from a night out, hungover, with friends who are just as drunk as you are... and ravenous. Except that often, it's a struggle. You go home, heat up a frozen lasagna that's been sitting there since forever, which you're too lazy to defrost completely, and end up eating it half cold. So, to avoid raiding the last peanut lying on your living room carpet, there's nothing like a list of restaurants open all night in our good old capital. Because yes, it is possible to eat a steak and fries after a night out. Just like in American movies. Yeah, yeah. (Avoiding the strawberry milkshake and its onion-flavored cheeseburger with barbecue sauce, we go for the refined stuff in Paris).