Deux Magots (Les), Paris

A very popular place in the intellectual-chic quarter of St. Germain-Des-Pres. Its legendary terrace was the meeting-point for great writers and thinkers in Paris. Ernest Hemingway regularly popped up at the bar, and no wonder that Paris' best bookshop set up shop next door. The legend lives on; it's often full of people sipping a Kir Royal after shopping in the Armani store opposite. A novel addition to the typical Parisian cafe-restaurant menu: there are mixed platters of salad and cold meats, but also a dish of the day (rustic chicken ratatouille, cold salmon, etc).