Originally Posted by number_6

Pierre Gagnaire is in that category (though technically in a hotel ). My last lunch there lasted 4 hours and cost EUR 2000 however. Le Meurice (yet another hotel restaurant) is also in the "shouldn't be missed" category. Finally a non-hotel restaurant is Senderens, which is in a class by itself (rejected Michelin rating but forced to be 2 star as simply too good to be unclassified) and you can have a great lunch there with interesting wine matchings for EUR 150 making it the bargain of Paris for this kind of dining.