Brasserie Lipp has been serving its classy Left Bank clientele Alsatian delicacies  Main Room and 'blond' beer since 1880, when Léonard Lipp left his native Alsace to set up this world-famous establishment on the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Today, the Brasserie Lipp remains the home of the most fashionable artists, intellectuals and politicians...

“ Where the air one breathes is not the same as that next door, where the people one meets seem to be in harmony with each other, where cares vanish, where life seems easier, kinder, warmer. ”

The Brasserie Lipp is not a restaurant: it insists - correctly - on being called a brasserie, a place to drink beer, or wine, or coffee, and to eat the reknowned Alsatian cuisine, almost austere in its simplicity but copious in its portions. It is a place to converse, to read and even to write. The menu has evolved slowly and meticulously with the years, with specialities like Hareng Bismark (pickled Baltic herring) introduced in 1928. Other notables include the Choucroute Lipp (sauerkraut with sausages, pork and ham), Pied de Porc Farci Grillé (grilled pigs trotters), and for desert an exquisite Millefeuille. All these can be downed with beer or the house Riesling, served Brasserie Lipp from elegant carafes. Alternatively, a selection of fine wines, champagnes and spirits are available, although Cola drinks have been banished and pipe smoking or using mobile telephones are strictly forbidden !