Le Dorcia

Is is really named after the American Psycho restaurant, where reservations always required a bit more than usual? It is not clear. The decor is low lit, creamy elegant, as posh as wooden panels get. The kitchen is very classical, the menu is narrow but good, and the food is very well prepared. The servings are inventive, despite the classical point of departure. Good selection of wines. A bit too pricy though, but if not, most definitely a good meal.

www.ledorcia.fr

Bistrot Favart

A classical and very correct bistro; simple, based on good products; a so called cuisine du marche. With a more standard Parisian bar in the ground floor, the restaurant is on the first floor with the kitchen. Good wines. Friendly ambiance. Very reasonably priced.

www.bistrotfavart.com

Le Tambour

Le Tambour is one of the few places in the Montorgueil area that is open late. As simple as that.

Frenchie - bar a vin

Frenchie is an excellent wine bar serving bistronomy in a cosy and intriguing ambiance. Located in a small alley, on a side street from Rue des Petits Carreaux and Montorgueil, this place. The tables are small, so if the place is full, you're likely to be placed at the table of other guests. Normally for the better, but if you can find a corner, hold on to it. The food comes in small, well prepared, elegant, tasteful servings, allowing for real dining as well as curious snacking. 

Liza

Liza is a Lebanese restaurant. With a friendly ambiance and a nice remarkable decor, this place is a slightly more upscale and elegant alternative to the local couscous place. The food is served with care and is overall well prepared, although the servings are not highly innovative. A place with a good ambiance.

Dalva

This lively and charming street just behind Rue Montmartre in the Montorgeuil area is almost always worth a visit in the evenings. Dalva is one of the more easy going, chilled places. They serve decent wine and food, but the main issue is another: Who will get the couch? the couch that seems to have lived through a little bit of everything adorn the restaurant and grants the lucky few a particular seating from where one not is likely to move away. Warm staff.

Le pas sage

First of all, hold on to your belongings when you're moving around in the sometimes hipster-slum'ish, sometimes just measly street of Rue Saint Denis, as you're staring at one of the few businesses older than serving food. This changes somewhat once you enter the small three meter something shelf of a restaurant, le pas sage. The place is locate in an old Parisian passage, not too far away from the quite different Montorgeuil, while the wording in French means something like "the wise step". The place is gifted with beautiful waitresses demonstrating the obvious limits of the outside business. The food is good, well prepared and the prices are absolutely reasonable. The deco is relaxed and their wines are unpretentious but well selected. A good juicy pork is worth a try.

Aux Lyonnais

Aux Lyonnais is on of the classics in the bistro business. Simple and well prepared food from the very stomach of France, served in the charming, yet correct, surroundings of the traditional restaurant in the central part of the 2nd. The high ceilings and the hearty interior helps create the sense of history that is the place. The servants are classical French, with all the classical pros and cons that follow... In the internal jargon they'd emphasise the rigor. Although a bit pricy for the level of sophistication, Aux Lyonnais does what it does very well, and just by the book. Un bistro classique.

www.auxlyonnais.com

Le Loup Blanc

The white wolf, or Le Loup Blanc, is one of the places in the charming Montorgueuil area. You can go there for a drink, a cocktail, a glass of wine, or you can grignoter or you can have a full meal. Although this is not the place to go out (several nearby options are easy to spot), the place is where you might end up when you're having a good time in the small welcoming streets and you completely forget to make a reservation for dinner at a better place... the place looks good and the guests are often nice, cool and chatty - except for the waiters that are merely lazy and rude. But it IS cosy, despite the absence of higher gastronomy. And well, they do have a funny sorbet de tomates... 

www.loup-blanc.com