Dante – Rébecca Beaufour's Paradise on Rue de Paradis

On rue de Paradis in Paris's 10th arrondissement sits a restaurant named after the poet who wrote the Inferno – a joke that only works because the street itself is called Paradise. Dante is chef Rébecca Beaufour's first restaurant, which she opened on 7 June 2022 after years in some of the capital's most disciplined kitchens, from Alain Passard's L'Arpège to the Sénat, the Ritz and Le Grand Véfour. The address had previously traded under the name 14 Paradis and, before that, as a venture of the Hôtel Amour group; Beaufour and design consultant Gilbert Kann gutted the space for an open kitchen and a central table d'hôtes, keeping only a staircase rail salvaged from the old transatlantic liner France. The restaurant is Selected in the MICHELIN Guide, recognition for a modern, sharing-led cuisine built on produce bought as close to source as the Breton boats of fish supplier Yebisu allow, served at what the Guide itself classes as a moderate spend.

01The room and the setting

Dante occupies two floors behind large windows framed in Corten steel, with a staircase that still carries the handrail recovered from the ocean liner France, leading up to a space that can be privatised for larger groups.

The ground floor is built around light wood, stone and wicker furniture in white and ochre tones, with flower-shaped tables by design collective Uchronia set around a long central table d'hôtes; at the back, a wall has been cut away to open the kitchen fully onto the room. Crockery comes from a ceramicist Beaufour found on Instagram, and the cutlery is deliberately mismatched.

02The chef

Rébecca Beaufour trained first in international business before an internship with Alain Passard at L'Arpège redirected her toward cooking. She entered Ferrandi Paris in 2015, then began her professional career the following year as a commis in the kitchens of the French Sénat, working alongside several Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, among them Bocuse d'Or laureate Fabrice Desvignes.

Insider tip

Open Tue–Sat; closed Sun & Mon. Book directly on the restaurant's own site.

In 2017 she joined La Table de l'Espadon at the Ritz Paris under Nicolas Salle, and by 2019 she was running the pastry section at Le Grand Véfour under Guy Martin, with a further stint at Julien Duboué's A Noste. During the pandemic lockdowns she ran a home-delivery service called Becca Chez Vous before opening Dante, her own first address, at not yet thirty.

03The cooking

The carte is built for sharing: small and larger plates meant to move around the table rather than sit in front of one diner, sourced as much as possible in short circuits and from fresh, seasonal catches – the kitchen notes that shortages can happen precisely because it refuses frozen stand-ins.

Dishes currently on the menu move between raw and cooked textures with a seafood emphasis: oysters under a daiquiri granita, tarama with home-made lagana bread, raw scallops with a bardière cream and black sesame, praline, persimmon and jasmine-flower oil, and a quenelle finished with reduced fumet, poultry jus and vanilla oil.

04What to order

Beyond the raw scallops, the kombu-cured monkfish arrives barbecued with a pollen beurre blanc, chilli and roasted tomatoes (32 EUR), while the crispy pork belly is set against barbecue-charred chicory, lacto-fermented mirabelle plums and a horseradish jus (30 EUR). Sweetbread comes with congee, fresh and fermented blueberries and purple beans (33 EUR).

For two, there is a whole sole meunière with new potatoes and spinach, priced by the catch and best reserved in advance given limited quantities. To finish, an affogato made with Piedmont hazelnut (6 EUR) or a vanilla dessert built around fig leaf (13 EUR).

05Wine and drinks

The list leans toward natural, "clean" wines chosen to match the Mediterranean-leaning, produce-first register of the kitchen, a pairing Gault & Millau's 2026 review singles out as true to the feel of the neighbourhood. The restaurant's own profile also highlights a dedicated selection of natural wines alongside the food.

06When to go and booking

Dante is open Tuesday to Thursday from 19:00 to midnight, Friday until 00:30, and Saturday for both lunch (12:30–14:00) and dinner (19:00–00:30); it is closed Sunday and Monday, according to the restaurant's own site in October 2026. Tables are booked directly through the restaurant's own online reservation page, and the upstairs room can be privatised for private dinners or events.

07The neighbourhood

Rue de Paradis earned its name by decree in 1881, but its real history is in crystal: proximity to the Gare de l'Est let 19th-century glassmakers ship raw materials in from Lorraine, and by 1831 the houses of Baccarat and the Cristallerie de Saint-Louis had both set up showrooms and workshops here, with Baccarat's own museum later occupying numbers 30 and 30bis. Dante sits a short walk from that stretch of former crystal depots, in a part of the 10th arrondissement now closer to the Grands Boulevards' restaurant crowd than to its porcelain-trading past.

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