What Time Do Parisians Eat Dinner?
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Show up at 6pm and you'll dine alone with the staff setting tables; show up at 10:30pm and most kitchens are closed. The Parisian dinner clock, decoded.
The Paris dinner clock
Parisians sit down at 8-8:30pm on weekdays, closer to 9pm on weekends. Kitchens typically open at 7-7:30pm and take last orders around 10pm — earlier than the city's nightlife reputation suggests.
The smart slots
7:30pm: freshest kitchen, easiest tables, time for a show after. 9pm: peak local energy. After 10:30pm: only night-owl houses serve — here's where kitchens stay open.
What about Sunday and Monday?
Half of Paris closes. We don't — dinner every single night since 1930, in Saint-Germain. Book a table
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