La Tour d’Argent

Ask any winemaker or sommelier in France which restaurant boasts the greatest list of French wines in the world, and–unless they have a financial stake elsewhere–the answer will be  La Tour d’Argent. The restaurant, which is said to have been the inspiration for Pixar’s Ratatouille, is one of Paris’s most historic. There are legends that it was founded as early as the 16^th century and was frequented by Henry IV, but documentation dates its existence only as far back as 1860. No matter. The list is a leather-bound tome no less than ten inches thick, and is so heavy that it arrives tableside on a guéridon.