Beth Din de Paris: checking a restaurant’s certification

Beth Din de Paris certification is checked for a restaurant at its exact address. Start with the Consistoire’s official directory, compare name and address, then inspect the teouda displayed on site and its dates. Here is what to check, and how this differs from the KBDP logo you may see on a product.

If you want to read the document in the window (scope, date, organisation), see Beth Din, Loubavitch: how to read a kosher certificate. Here we discuss the directory.

Beth Din de Paris: product certification or restaurant certification?

The Consistoire presents the KBDP logo as certification for products approved by Beth Din de Paris. Seeing this logo on a product used by a restaurant therefore does not establish that the entire establishment is under its supervision.

For a restaurant, check the establishment in the official business directory at the right address, then inspect the teouda on site. If a name, address or date does not match, ask Beth Din de Paris for confirmation. Keila helps you check by showing sources; it does not issue certificates.

How can you tell whether a restaurant is kosher?

Look at who says so. A restaurant is kosher because a kashrut organisation supervises it, not because its menu has no pork or its name sounds Hebrew. In Paris, the most widespread organisation is Beth Din de Paris, which publishes its business list. On site, the certificate (teouda) is displayed with an address and period. Everything else is atmosphere.

Where is the official list of Beth Din de Paris certified restaurants?

Beth Din de Paris publishes a directory of businesses it supervises on the Consistoire website: the business directory at consistoire.org. Its own name is at stake, so that is where we look, rather than a forum or WhatsApp group. Keila calls it “the official real-time Beth Din de Paris directory” on listings.

As of 5 October 2026, the Keila catalogue contains 106 places with documented certification, all from this directory and all checked on 2 October 2026. The directory classifies 86 as meat restaurants and 20 as dairy restaurants. 74 are in Paris and 32 elsewhere in Île-de-France, from Levallois to Sarcelles. All cover the whole establishment, rather than part of its menu.

What Keila checks, address by address

A directory entry is a name and address. For a Keila listing to show “documented certification”, both must match the restaurant in that listing. In practice, for each of the 106:

• The full address matches: number, street, postcode. Not “roughly in the neighbourhood”.
• The holder is matched to the trading name: by identical name for 64 places, or an explicit, manually reviewed alias for the other 42.
• The type is recorded exactly as the directory gives it: meat restaurant or dairy restaurant.
• The check date is displayed on the listing.

Aliases are the most common source of confusion. The directory lists the holder, not necessarily the name on the frontage. In Sarcelles, Sergioh! matches the holder “CHEZ SERGIO” at 28 boulevard Albert Camus. Bassof, in Levallois, appears as “BASS OF”. Each Chlew is listed as “CHLEW”, address by address. Same place, two spellings: we check that they really match and record it.

What the directory does not say

We would rather tell you before you discover it yourself. The Beth Din de Paris directory publishes neither teouda copies, individual references nor validity dates. It says “this establishment, at this address, appears in the list”. That is already useful. But it is not the document itself, and the listing makes that clear.

Nor does it tell you whether the couscous is good, whether you can book for fifteen, or whether it opens on Friday at 3 pm. For that, there are menus, indicative hours and the phone. For what meat and dairy mean in everyday practice, we wrote Bassari, Halavi, Pareve: understanding kosher restaurants.

Why we check again

A live list changes. Restaurants close, change owners or change supervision. If Keila recorded the directory once and displayed it forever, we would eventually say yes based on outdated information. Each documented certification therefore has a check date and is rechecked regularly. The current 106 were checked on 2 October 2026.

The rule: each certification shows when we checked it, so you know how old the information is. When a recheck shows an address has left the directory, the certification is removed from the listing. We do not leave it there until someone notices.

A check date does not replace your eyes. If it looks old, or you have doubts, the teouda in the window remains the freshest source. It is dated too.

An address, not a brand

The classic trap: “Bozen is Beth Din.” Perhaps, but which one? Certification applies to an address, and Keila never copies it from one branch to another. In the catalogue, Bozen Villiers, Bozen Iéna, Bozen Trocadéro, Bozen Paris 19, Bozen Voltaire, Bozen Levallois and Bozen Boulogne each have documented certification, address by address. Bozen Charenton, Bozen Vincennes and Bozen Le Raincy do not currently have certification documented in their Keila listings.

That does not mean they are not supervised. It means Keila has not yet matched those three addresses to a directory entry. Until that happens, the listing does not say yes. If you go, search the address in the directory yourself—that is what it is for—and inspect the teouda on site. The same exercise, brand by brand, is in our kosher sushi guide. Neighbourhood examples are in kosher restaurants in Levallois-Perret and those in Charenton, Saint-Mandé and Vincennes.

Stated supervision, declaration, certification

Three things on a listing can refer to kashrut, and they do not carry the same weight:

• Documented certification: the organisation names the establishment at this address in a dated public source. Currently, that is the Beth Din de Paris directory.
• Restaurant declaration: the restaurant itself says it is kosher on its website or menu. Useful, but not certification.
• Supervision stated by a directory: a kosher directory names an organisation. This is an observation, shown as “to confirm”.

Yes, it happens often: a directory says “Beth Din de Paris” for an address without certification documented in its Keila listing. In that case, the app does not say yes solely on the directory’s word. It displays what it knows, with its source. Keila certifies nothing itself: it checks sources and shows their nature. Details are on the method page.

Check for yourself in four steps

1. Search the Beth Din de Paris directory at consistoire.org: by name, or by town if the name gives no result.
2. Compare the exact address: number and street. A brand at two addresses requires two checks.
3. Compare the name: if the trading name differs from the listed holder, make sure it is the same place, and check the type, meat or dairy.
4. On site, inspect the teouda and its date. If in doubt, ask. A serious restaurant shows it without a sigh.

Or, more briefly: open the Keila listing; its source and two dates are there. Places in the 17th, the arrondissement with the most, are organised by evidence level in kosher restaurants in the 17th, and the overview is in where to eat kosher in Paris by arrondissement. All listings are also in the restaurant list, and filtering by organisation is in the Keila app, coming soon to the App Store. Certified listings, grouped by place, are at kosher restaurant pages by arrondissement and town.

Do you run a restaurant supervised by Beth Din de Paris that is not yet shown as such on Keila? Send the address as it appears in the directory; we will match it and display it with its source: restaurant owners’ area.