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5 Emily in Paris Filming Locations to Visit in 2026
You did not come to Paris to recreate a Netflix episode. The show pulled you in, and now you want to walk the square Emily crosses in her opening scene and stand on the bridge where the proposal happens. Every address is real and within a thirty-minute walk of one another.
We asked our American clients which Emily in Paris filming locations they actually wanted to see, then matched each to the Merveil neighborhood closest by foot. From Place de l'Estrapade to Place de la Madeleine, here are the five filming locations to visit, with the season and episode where each appears and the practical tip that turns the visit into something real.
Contents
- Place de l'Estrapade — Emily's Building, Café, and Bakery
- Café de Flore — Where Mindy and Camille Show Up
- Pont Alexandre III — The Proposal and the Sunset Walk
- Palais Garnier — The Opera Night and Café de la Paix
- Place de la Madeleine — Caviar Kaspia and Ladurée Royale
- The Merveil Paris Experience
- Direct Booking Benefits and Personalized Support
Place de l'Estrapade — Emily's Building, Café, and Bakery
Place de l'Estrapade is the address to see first. The small square in the 5th arrondissement holds the green door at number 1 (Emily's apartment building), plus the café where she takes her morning coffee and the bakery that converted her to pain au chocolat in season one. Three filming locations, one square, ten minutes of walking.
The Green Door at Number 1
The building is a private residence and you cannot go in, but the façade is exactly as it appears on screen. Show up before 10 a.m. and you will have the square almost to yourself. Cross to Café de la Nouvelle Mairie at 19 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques, fifty meters away, and order a glass of natural wine at the marble bar where Emily sits in season one, episode two. The café opens at 8 a.m. weekdays and the regulars are still mostly Sorbonne professors.
The Pain au Chocolat Test
Boulangerie Moderne sits at 16 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques, two doors down. This is where Emily buys the pastry that changes her life in the pilot. Order a pain au chocolat and a baguette tradition, eat them on the steps of the square, and you will understand why she stopped fighting the carbs. Notre-Dame is a fifteen-minute walk along rue Saint-Jacques. Our Notre-Dame and Île Saint-Louis residences sit on that same walk.
Café de Flore — Where Mindy and Camille Show Up
Café de Flore at 172 boulevard Saint-Germain is the easiest location to actually sit down at. Emily meets Mindy here in season one, episode three, and runs into Camille on the terrace several times across the series. The café has been open since 1887. You are sitting where Hemingway and Sartre sat long before any Netflix camera arrived.
The Hemingway and Sartre Table
Ask the maître d' for the upstairs room. The first floor is where Sartre and Beauvoir kept their daily writing routine, every winter, with one carafe of red wine and a notebook each. Order a café crème (€7) and a croque monsieur (€16). The terrace on the ground floor is where the Emily scenes were filmed; the upstairs is where the cultural weight lives.
The Walk Around the Corner
After your coffee, walk west to Les Deux Magots, then south on rue Bonaparte to Place Saint-Sulpice. The loop takes twenty minutes and crosses streets from the series: rue de l'Abbaye, rue Jacob, rue de Furstemberg. Saint-Germain-des-Prés puts you within five minutes of all of it. The morning writes itself: Café de Flore at 9, the church at 10, the Luxembourg Gardens by 11.
Pont Alexandre III — The Proposal and the Sunset Walk
Pont Alexandre III does the heaviest dramatic work in the series. The proposal scene happens here. Several of Emily's most cinematic walks happen here. It is also the most ornate bridge in Paris: gilt cherubs, Art Nouveau lamps, a clean view down the Seine to the Invalides.
Sunset Is the Hour
The bridge connects the 8th arrondissement to the 7th. The right time to walk it is one hour before sunset, around 9 p.m. in June, 5 p.m. in December. The gold leaf on the lampposts catches the last light, the river turns copper, and your photographs will not need a filter. Cross from the Grand Palais side, stop at the midpoint where the cherubs face the water, and look back.
The Walk That Connects Three Filming Sites
Start at the Champs-Élysées, walk down Avenue Winston Churchill past the Petit Palais, cross the bridge to the Invalides, and you have covered three filming-friendly addresses in an hour. From our Champs-Élysées and Triangle d'Or residences, you are eight minutes on foot from the bridge. Bring flat shoes; the surface is uneven cobble.
Palais Garnier — The Opera Night and Café de la Paix
The opera scene at Palais Garnier is one of the most carefully staged moments in the series, and the building deserves the attention. Charles Garnier's 1875 opera house at 8 rue Scribe anchors the 9th arrondissement, with a marble grand staircase, a Chagall ceiling, and an auditorium that holds 1,979 seats under crystal chandeliers.
The Tour and the Dress Code
You can visit the public spaces (staircase, Grand Foyer, auditorium) for €15, daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guided tours run at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in English. For a real opera or ballet evening, book six weeks ahead through operadeparis.fr. Cheap seats start at €25, the dress circle around €150, and the dress code is smart: blazer, no sneakers. The Chagall ceiling is best seen from the orchestra section, looking up during the second intermission.
Café de la Paix on the Corner
Across the Place de l'Opéra at 5 place de l'Opéra, Café de la Paix has been serving since 1862. Order a coupe de champagne (€18) on the terrace before the show or a tarte au chocolat after, and watch the Garnier façade glow gold under its evening lights. The interior dining room is a listed historic monument.
Place de la Madeleine — Caviar Kaspia and Ladurée Royale
Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement is where fashion week unfolds in the series. The square sits inside the Triangle d'Or, three minutes from Avenue Montaigne, and holds two of the show's most photographed addresses: Caviar Kaspia for the brunch scene and Ladurée Royale for the chocolate-shop moments.
Caviar Kaspia at Number 17
The dining room sits on the first floor, above the ground-floor caviar shop, reached by a wood-paneled staircase. Reserve a week ahead through the Kaspia website. The signature order is the baked potato with caviar (€95 for Baeri, €280 for Imperial Oscietra), a glass of vodka, a green salad. The room is small and the regulars are loyal. You will recognize at least one face from a magazine cover by the second course.
Ladurée and the Chocolate Walk
Walk across the square to Ladurée at 16 rue Royale, then continue to Patrick Roger at 3 place de la Madeleine and Maxim's at 3 rue Royale. The four addresses sit within 200 meters of one another, and they are the addresses that show up in the Emily fashion-week sequences. End at the church of La Madeleine, sit on its steps facing rue Royale, and you have a clean view of the façade that frames the show's most recognizable shots.
The Merveil Paris Experience
Walking the Emily map is a different stay than ticking off the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower. You want to be inside the neighborhood, not commuting to it. Merveil Paris places you inside five of the six districts where the series films, in apartments built for the kind of week where you leave at 9 and come back at midnight.
Residences in the Six Most Refined Districts
Our properties sit in the Marais, Saint-Germain, Trocadéro, around Notre-Dame, near the Louvre, and along the Champs-Élysées, the same six neighborhoods that frame the show's most repeated locations. Each apartment is restored with original parquet, three-meter ceilings, and a careful curation of contemporary art. Here is the match between the filming locations and the Merveil neighborhood closest to each:
| Filming Location | Closest Merveil District | Walk Time | Best Hour to Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place de l'Estrapade | Notre-Dame / Île Saint-Louis | 15 minutes | Before 10 a.m. |
| Café de Flore | Saint-Germain-des-Prés | 5 minutes | 9 a.m. weekdays |
| Pont Alexandre III | Champs-Élysées / Triangle d'Or | 8 minutes | One hour before sunset |
| Palais Garnier | Louvre / Palais Royal | 12 minutes | 11 a.m. tour or 8 p.m. show |
| Place de la Madeleine | Champs-Élysées / Triangle d'Or | 6 minutes | 1 p.m. for lunch |
Five-Star Service, Residential Privacy
You will have a 24/7 concierge on call, a private chef on demand, and transfers from Charles de Gaulle, Orly, or Le Bourget. Our team can secure the Caviar Kaspia table the website shows as full, hold a Café de Flore terrace seat for your group, and arrange a Pont Alexandre III sunset shoot with a photographer if that is the memory you want.
Direct Booking Benefits and Personalized Support
Booking directly with Merveil Paris is the most efficient way to start your stay. You deal with our team end to end, with no third-party fees and a flexible 14-day cancellation window on most reservations.
Best Rates and Real People
Reserve through merveil-paris.com for the most competitive rate. You also get an immediate line to our office on rue Royale: a real human, in English, who answers within hours. Whether you need an Emily itinerary mapped to your apartment or a Caviar Kaspia booking the website shows as full, our concierge handles it before you arrive.
A Welcome Detail You Will Remember
Guests who confirm a reservation this week receive a complimentary bottle of champagne in the apartment on arrival. It is a small gesture we have kept since our first booking. For a bespoke proposal (group travel, multi-week stays, a particular celebration) call our advisors at +33 1 76 38 11 02 or visit merveil-paris.com. We are available 24/7.
FAQ
Can you actually visit the Emily in Paris filming locations?
Yes, every location in this guide is a real public address. You cannot enter Emily's apartment building at 1 Place de l'Estrapade, but the square is open and the café and bakery next door are working businesses. Café de Flore, Pont Alexandre III, Palais Garnier, Caviar Kaspia and Ladurée all welcome visitors during regular hours. Reserve dining tables ahead and arrive before the tour groups.
Which Merveil neighborhood is best for Emily in Paris fans?
Saint-Germain-des-Prés gives you the cleanest base: five minutes from Café de Flore, twenty from Place de l'Estrapade, fifteen by Métro from Pont Alexandre III. For the fashion-week locations, the Champs-Élysées and Triangle d'Or district puts you closer to Caviar Kaspia.
How many days do you need to see all five locations?
Three full days is comfortable. Day one covers Place de l'Estrapade and Café de Flore on foot, with lunch in Saint-Germain. Day two: Pont Alexandre III at sunset and Place de la Madeleine for dinner at Caviar Kaspia. Day three is reserved for Palais Garnier, with Café de la Paix as the bookend. A four-day stay lets you revisit a favorite at a different hour.
Why choose a private residence over a hotel for an Emily in Paris trip?
The series is built around the rhythm of living in a Paris apartment, not a hotel room. A Merveil residence gives you the same scale: a full kitchen, parquet floors, windows that open onto a real Parisian street. You leave at 8 a.m. for the boulangerie like Emily does and come back at 1 a.m. to pour your own glass of wine. For a trip whose entire premise is living the show, the residence is the point.
5 Emily in Paris Filming Locations to Visit in 2026
You did not come to Paris to recreate a Netflix episode. The show pulled you in, and now you want to walk the square Emily crosses in her opening scene and stand on the bridge where the proposal happens. Every address is real and within a thirty-minute walk of one another.
We asked our American clients which Emily in Paris filming locations they actually wanted to see, then matched each to the Merveil neighborhood closest by foot. From Place de l'Estrapade to Place de la Madeleine, here are the five filming locations to visit, with the season and episode where each appears and the practical tip that turns the visit into something real.
Contents
- Place de l'Estrapade — Emily's Building, Café, and Bakery
- Café de Flore — Where Mindy and Camille Show Up
- Pont Alexandre III — The Proposal and the Sunset Walk
- Palais Garnier — The Opera Night and Café de la Paix
- Place de la Madeleine — Caviar Kaspia and Ladurée Royale
- The Merveil Paris Experience
- Direct Booking Benefits and Personalized Support
Place de l'Estrapade — Emily's Building, Café, and Bakery
Place de l'Estrapade is the address to see first. The small square in the 5th arrondissement holds the green door at number 1 (Emily's apartment building), plus the café where she takes her morning coffee and the bakery that converted her to pain au chocolat in season one. Three filming locations, one square, ten minutes of walking.
The Green Door at Number 1
The building is a private residence and you cannot go in, but the façade is exactly as it appears on screen. Show up before 10 a.m. and you will have the square almost to yourself. Cross to Café de la Nouvelle Mairie at 19 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques, fifty meters away, and order a glass of natural wine at the marble bar where Emily sits in season one, episode two. The café opens at 8 a.m. weekdays and the regulars are still mostly Sorbonne professors.
The Pain au Chocolat Test
Boulangerie Moderne sits at 16 rue des Fossés-Saint-Jacques, two doors down. This is where Emily buys the pastry that changes her life in the pilot. Order a pain au chocolat and a baguette tradition, eat them on the steps of the square, and you will understand why she stopped fighting the carbs. Notre-Dame is a fifteen-minute walk along rue Saint-Jacques. Our Notre-Dame and Île Saint-Louis residences sit on that same walk.
Café de Flore — Where Mindy and Camille Show Up
Café de Flore at 172 boulevard Saint-Germain is the easiest location to actually sit down at. Emily meets Mindy here in season one, episode three, and runs into Camille on the terrace several times across the series. The café has been open since 1887. You are sitting where Hemingway and Sartre sat long before any Netflix camera arrived.
The Hemingway and Sartre Table
Ask the maître d' for the upstairs room. The first floor is where Sartre and Beauvoir kept their daily writing routine, every winter, with one carafe of red wine and a notebook each. Order a café crème (€7) and a croque monsieur (€16). The terrace on the ground floor is where the Emily scenes were filmed; the upstairs is where the cultural weight lives.
The Walk Around the Corner
After your coffee, walk west to Les Deux Magots, then south on rue Bonaparte to Place Saint-Sulpice. The loop takes twenty minutes and crosses streets from the series: rue de l'Abbaye, rue Jacob, rue de Furstemberg. Saint-Germain-des-Prés puts you within five minutes of all of it. The morning writes itself: Café de Flore at 9, the church at 10, the Luxembourg Gardens by 11.
Pont Alexandre III — The Proposal and the Sunset Walk
Pont Alexandre III does the heaviest dramatic work in the series. The proposal scene happens here. Several of Emily's most cinematic walks happen here. It is also the most ornate bridge in Paris: gilt cherubs, Art Nouveau lamps, a clean view down the Seine to the Invalides.
Sunset Is the Hour
The bridge connects the 8th arrondissement to the 7th. The right time to walk it is one hour before sunset, around 9 p.m. in June, 5 p.m. in December. The gold leaf on the lampposts catches the last light, the river turns copper, and your photographs will not need a filter. Cross from the Grand Palais side, stop at the midpoint where the cherubs face the water, and look back.
The Walk That Connects Three Filming Sites
Start at the Champs-Élysées, walk down Avenue Winston Churchill past the Petit Palais, cross the bridge to the Invalides, and you have covered three filming-friendly addresses in an hour. From our Champs-Élysées and Triangle d'Or residences, you are eight minutes on foot from the bridge. Bring flat shoes; the surface is uneven cobble.
Palais Garnier — The Opera Night and Café de la Paix
The opera scene at Palais Garnier is one of the most carefully staged moments in the series, and the building deserves the attention. Charles Garnier's 1875 opera house at 8 rue Scribe anchors the 9th arrondissement, with a marble grand staircase, a Chagall ceiling, and an auditorium that holds 1,979 seats under crystal chandeliers.
The Tour and the Dress Code
You can visit the public spaces (staircase, Grand Foyer, auditorium) for €15, daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Guided tours run at 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. in English. For a real opera or ballet evening, book six weeks ahead through operadeparis.fr. Cheap seats start at €25, the dress circle around €150, and the dress code is smart: blazer, no sneakers. The Chagall ceiling is best seen from the orchestra section, looking up during the second intermission.
Café de la Paix on the Corner
Across the Place de l'Opéra at 5 place de l'Opéra, Café de la Paix has been serving since 1862. Order a coupe de champagne (€18) on the terrace before the show or a tarte au chocolat after, and watch the Garnier façade glow gold under its evening lights. The interior dining room is a listed historic monument.
Place de la Madeleine — Caviar Kaspia and Ladurée Royale
Place de la Madeleine in the 8th arrondissement is where fashion week unfolds in the series. The square sits inside the Triangle d'Or, three minutes from Avenue Montaigne, and holds two of the show's most photographed addresses: Caviar Kaspia for the brunch scene and Ladurée Royale for the chocolate-shop moments.
Caviar Kaspia at Number 17
The dining room sits on the first floor, above the ground-floor caviar shop, reached by a wood-paneled staircase. Reserve a week ahead through the Kaspia website. The signature order is the baked potato with caviar (€95 for Baeri, €280 for Imperial Oscietra), a glass of vodka, a green salad. The room is small and the regulars are loyal. You will recognize at least one face from a magazine cover by the second course.
Ladurée and the Chocolate Walk
Walk across the square to Ladurée at 16 rue Royale, then continue to Patrick Roger at 3 place de la Madeleine and Maxim's at 3 rue Royale. The four addresses sit within 200 meters of one another, and they are the addresses that show up in the Emily fashion-week sequences. End at the church of La Madeleine, sit on its steps facing rue Royale, and you have a clean view of the façade that frames the show's most recognizable shots.
The Merveil Paris Experience
Walking the Emily map is a different stay than ticking off the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower. You want to be inside the neighborhood, not commuting to it. Merveil Paris places you inside five of the six districts where the series films, in apartments built for the kind of week where you leave at 9 and come back at midnight.
Residences in the Six Most Refined Districts
Our properties sit in the Marais, Saint-Germain, Trocadéro, around Notre-Dame, near the Louvre, and along the Champs-Élysées, the same six neighborhoods that frame the show's most repeated locations. Each apartment is restored with original parquet, three-meter ceilings, and a careful curation of contemporary art. Here is the match between the filming locations and the Merveil neighborhood closest to each:
| Filming Location | Closest Merveil District | Walk Time | Best Hour to Visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place de l'Estrapade | Notre-Dame / Île Saint-Louis | 15 minutes | Before 10 a.m. |
| Café de Flore | Saint-Germain-des-Prés | 5 minutes | 9 a.m. weekdays |
| Pont Alexandre III | Champs-Élysées / Triangle d'Or | 8 minutes | One hour before sunset |
| Palais Garnier | Louvre / Palais Royal | 12 minutes | 11 a.m. tour or 8 p.m. show |
| Place de la Madeleine | Champs-Élysées / Triangle d'Or | 6 minutes | 1 p.m. for lunch |
Five-Star Service, Residential Privacy
You will have a 24/7 concierge on call, a private chef on demand, and transfers from Charles de Gaulle, Orly, or Le Bourget. Our team can secure the Caviar Kaspia table the website shows as full, hold a Café de Flore terrace seat for your group, and arrange a Pont Alexandre III sunset shoot with a photographer if that is the memory you want.
Direct Booking Benefits and Personalized Support
Booking directly with Merveil Paris is the most efficient way to start your stay. You deal with our team end to end, with no third-party fees and a flexible 14-day cancellation window on most reservations.
Best Rates and Real People
Reserve through merveil-paris.com for the most competitive rate. You also get an immediate line to our office on rue Royale: a real human, in English, who answers within hours. Whether you need an Emily itinerary mapped to your apartment or a Caviar Kaspia booking the website shows as full, our concierge handles it before you arrive.
A Welcome Detail You Will Remember
Guests who confirm a reservation this week receive a complimentary bottle of champagne in the apartment on arrival. It is a small gesture we have kept since our first booking. For a bespoke proposal (group travel, multi-week stays, a particular celebration) call our advisors at +33 1 76 38 11 02 or visit merveil-paris.com. We are available 24/7.
FAQ
Can you actually visit the Emily in Paris filming locations?
Yes, every location in this guide is a real public address. You cannot enter Emily's apartment building at 1 Place de l'Estrapade, but the square is open and the café and bakery next door are working businesses. Café de Flore, Pont Alexandre III, Palais Garnier, Caviar Kaspia and Ladurée all welcome visitors during regular hours. Reserve dining tables ahead and arrive before the tour groups.
Which Merveil neighborhood is best for Emily in Paris fans?
Saint-Germain-des-Prés gives you the cleanest base: five minutes from Café de Flore, twenty from Place de l'Estrapade, fifteen by Métro from Pont Alexandre III. For the fashion-week locations, the Champs-Élysées and Triangle d'Or district puts you closer to Caviar Kaspia.
How many days do you need to see all five locations?
Three full days is comfortable. Day one covers Place de l'Estrapade and Café de Flore on foot, with lunch in Saint-Germain. Day two: Pont Alexandre III at sunset and Place de la Madeleine for dinner at Caviar Kaspia. Day three is reserved for Palais Garnier, with Café de la Paix as the bookend. A four-day stay lets you revisit a favorite at a different hour.
Why choose a private residence over a hotel for an Emily in Paris trip?
The series is built around the rhythm of living in a Paris apartment, not a hotel room. A Merveil residence gives you the same scale: a full kitchen, parquet floors, windows that open onto a real Parisian street. You leave at 8 a.m. for the boulangerie like Emily does and come back at 1 a.m. to pour your own glass of wine. For a trip whose entire premise is living the show, the residence is the point.
