It ain’t called La Belle Époque for nothing. Providing one of the best insights to the era is the Bofinger brasserie—open since 1864. With a double staircase, painted frescos and a glass-domed cupola overhead, you won’t know where to look, until the food arrives. The chef’s love of seafood mixed with Alsatian influences produces progressive sounding combos like ‘the sauerkraut of the sea’. Past punters include the likes of François Mitterrand, Georges Pompidou and Woody Allen.