Paris is not an obvious Spanish food city. It has no Spanish quarter, no long-running immigrant restaurant strip of the kind you find in New York or Mexico City. What it has instead is a scattering of restaurants that each arrived for their own reasons, which means the map matters more here than in most cities. Where you are standing decides what you can eat.
Here are the eleven in our directory, grouped by neighbourhood.
Right Bank centre: Les Halles, Bourse, Grands Boulevards
La Penela on Rue de la Boule Rouge is the unusual one. It belongs to a Galician group, and it is their only restaurant outside Spain. The dining room is large enough to take several groups at once without losing the family feel that the group is built on. If you want to eat Galician food in France, this is the shortest route to it.
Rosario sits on Rue de Richelieu near the Bourse, and is named after the owner's aunt, whose recipes started the project. The cooking is traditional Spanish with the chef's own adjustments, and the blend of Spanish and French influence is deliberate. Le Figaro and Sortir à Paris have both written about it.
Mes Souvenirs d'Espagne is on Rue Étienne Marcel by Les Halles. It is family-owned and dressed like a Spanish house, with porrones on the shelves and ceramics from La Bisbal, the Catalan pottery town. Tapas and regional dishes, run by the family itself.
Le Marais and Faubourg Saint-Denis
Cortado Cantina on Rue Charlot was opened by two Franco-Spanish brothers, Tom and Adrien Aymerich. The name is the coffee. The kitchen works from tapas-bar classics with light contemporary edits, and the place doubles as a meeting point for Spanish speakers in the city, with a Spanish-speaking team and cultural events.
Buenas is up on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis in the 10th. Comer, beber y vivir is written at the entrance, there is a bullfighter statue and a traje de luces inside, and chef Toufik Seddik cooks across the Spanish regions. It is the most openly themed room on this list, and it knows it.
Left Bank: Saint-Germain and the 7th
Tina on Rue de Vaugirard is Catalan in inspiration and in decoration: Gaudí-style mosaics that echo Parc Güell, and architectural details that nod to the Sagrada Família. Chef Pierre Chomet cooks from across Spain rather than Catalonia alone, so the room is more regionally specific than the plate.
Fogón Ultramarinos on Rue de Verneuil is the one to know about if you care about rice. Alberto and his wife Vanina run it as a grocer, cook and processor in one, and the name carries his history: Fogón was the Michelin-starred restaurant where he spent twenty years making paella his signature dish, and Ultramarinos is the old word for the 19th-century Spanish grocery shop.
West and north: Champs-Élysées, Batignolles
Dos Almas is inside the Hotel Villa Marquis, a Meliá Collection hotel in the Golden Triangle off the Champs-Élysées. The premise is a bridge between the two cuisines: Spanish soul, French technique, seasonal produce and original recipes.
Montijo on Rue de Rome in Batignolles is built around a big room made for groups, decorated in a mix of traditional and modern, including artwork generated by AI. Make of that what you will; the space is the selling point.
East and the edges: the 12th and Vincennes
Galerna on Rue du Cher does small plates to share and a set lunch built on the market. The chef is from La Rioja and cooks northern Spanish food on purpose, having decided the standard Spanish-restaurant-abroad menu was not what he wanted to make. This is the one to pick if you have eaten a lot of generic tapas and want something narrower.
Food y Vino is out in Vincennes, east of the périphérique, and is half restaurant and half épicerie. You eat there and then buy the producer's version to take home, which is the older European model and still the most useful one.
How to use this list
If you want one region done properly, go to La Penela for Galicia, Galerna for the north, or Fogón Ultramarinos for Valencian rice. If you want breadth, Rosario, Buenas and Tina all cook across Spain. If you want to shop as well as eat, Food y Vino. If you are entertaining, Montijo and Dos Almas have the rooms for it.
Prices sit at the accessible end for most of this list, with the hotel dining room and a couple of others higher. Every listing, with addresses and links, is on our Paris page. If you want to know what separates the real thing from a room with a flamenco poster, read signs of an authentic Spanish restaurant.
