Gwyneth Paltrow's Favorite Restaurants

Gwyneth has been coming to this Upper East Side Italian spot for years; the waiters don'st even give her a menu. The restaurant's fried zucchini was the inspiration for her Fried-Zucchini Spaghetti.

This Nashville restaurant is known for its ingenious Italian-Southern hybrid dishes, like white bean soup with pecorino and corn-bread crumbs. Gwyneth suggests stopping by the bar to grab a drink from the stellar bartenders.

Chad Robertson's famous mission bakery attracts large crowds for its amazing array of baked goods: feathery croissants, fine-crumbed scones and crisp-crusted loaves. Gwyneth took inspiration from Robertson's cookbook Tartine Bread to make her own bread with natural leaven.

This Venice Beach pizzeria has tons of buzz for its thin-crusted pizzas. (Gwyneth's favorite pie is the jalapeño and smoked mozzarella.) But the vegetables, like wood-roasted cauliflower with garlic, vinegar and chile, are also excellent.

Gwyneth loves the simplicity of this elegant Japanese restaurant, but she steers away from the excellent sushi; instead, she goes for the light noodle soups and salads.

Comerç 24's Carles Abellan recently opened Tapaç24 that serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. Gwyneth spent time in Spain as a teenager and loves his take on traditional Spanish dishes like patatas bravas and croquetas with Ibérico ham.

This restaurant is set in a riad—a traditional Moroccan home—around a beautiful green-and-white-tiled central courtyard. Gwyneth's emphatic recommendation: the pigeon pie.

When visiting Paris, Gwyneth comes here for its light lunch menu, with tea-inspired dishes like salmon with green matcha. She also loves its afternoon tea and stocking up on its candles; the Darjeeling-scented candle is a favorite.