Proprietor: Gérard Depardieu

Location: Opera, Paris, France

Gérard Depardieu has triumphed where other movie luminaries failed and created a restaurant that's hotter than Hades. If you're ever in Paris' Opera district and can shove your way ahead of Isabelle Adjani and Jean Reno in the queue for a table, La Fontaine Gaillon is your chance to feast on award-winning cuisine lovingly overseen by the man who recently beat most of the French underworld to a pulp in Mesrine. Depardieu's wine list, which features bottles from his own vineyards in Bordeaux as well as Languedoc and North Africa, is wildly imaginative; although the title of his cookbook, 'Gérard Depardieu: My Cookbook'… well, not so much.