Guidebook for Paris
Essentials
Fabulous food market on Boulevard Richard Lenoir (at metro Breguet-Sabin, line 5) on Sundays and Thursdays. They open in the morning (09h I think, maybe earlier) and close around 13h.
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Bréguet - Sabin
Fabulous food market on Boulevard Richard Lenoir (at metro Breguet-Sabin, line 5) on Sundays and Thursdays. They open in the morning (09h I think, maybe earlier) and close around 13h.
Fantastic grocery market! Also good for cheeses, fish, meat, you name it. Open every day except Monday (at least for the covered section of the market).
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Imarike ye-Aligre
Place d'AligreFantastic grocery market! Also good for cheeses, fish, meat, you name it. Open every day except Monday (at least for the covered section of the market).
Charming little covered market, and you can also get Japanese food at benches. Rue de Bretagne is a nice Marais street.
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Marche des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de BretagneCharming little covered market, and you can also get Japanese food at benches. Rue de Bretagne is a nice Marais street.
Drinks & Nightlife
Another excellent cafe and bar on our street. Specialising in absinth... but also just an all-round nice cafe.
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La Fée Verte
108 Rue de la RoquetteAnother excellent cafe and bar on our street. Specialising in absinth... but also just an all-round nice cafe.
Very cosy bar, run mainly by volunteers? Tiny stage, sometimes with live music. Always a good crowd. Large whisky and rum collection.
73 Rue de la Roquette
73 Rue de la RoquetteVery cosy bar, run mainly by volunteers? Tiny stage, sometimes with live music. Always a good crowd. Large whisky and rum collection.
The area around rue Oberkampf and the parrallel rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud is full of vibrant bars. A nice, atmospheric place to go out for a drink.
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Rue Oberkampf
Rue OberkampfThe area around rue Oberkampf and the parrallel rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud is full of vibrant bars. A nice, atmospheric place to go out for a drink.
Food Scene
Spacious quality bistro, hence child-friendly even with a pram
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Café Truc
8 Rue FromentSpacious quality bistro, hence child-friendly even with a pram
Paris’ best entrecote/steak frites with sauce bearnaise!
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Le Café des Musées
49 Rue de TurenneParis’ best entrecote/steak frites with sauce bearnaise!
Excellent, if a bit more expensive, restaurant with arch-parisian interior and a wonderfully queer waitress, if she's there still...
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Bistrot Paul Bert
18 Rue Paul BertExcellent, if a bit more expensive, restaurant with arch-parisian interior and a wonderfully queer waitress, if she's there still...
Best pizza in Paris! Sold by weight and in squares (cut with scissors!) Sounds weird? It's delicious. Y-U-M!
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Al Taglio
2 Bis Rue Neuve PopincourtBest pizza in Paris! Sold by weight and in squares (cut with scissors!) Sounds weird? It's delicious. Y-U-M!
Excellent and wholly organic (San Franciso'ish, I should think) brunch, lunch, and shop.
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Rose Bakery
30 Rue DebelleymeExcellent and wholly organic (San Franciso'ish, I should think) brunch, lunch, and shop.
Barbershop
68 Avenue de la RépubliqueCool café.
Very nice little restaurant - not entirely cheap - but mouth-watering!
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Le Petit Pontoise
9 Rue de PontoiseVery nice little restaurant - not entirely cheap - but mouth-watering!
Classically Parisian bistro/café - for morning coffee, lunch, drinks, dinner - you name it. Check out the neon interior at night.
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A la renaissance
87 Rue de la RoquetteClassically Parisian bistro/café - for morning coffee, lunch, drinks, dinner - you name it. Check out the neon interior at night.
Pleasant and reasonably priced organic lunch in the basement canteen of this ultra bo-bo (bourgeois-bohème) designer store. A good place for lunch.
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Merci
111 Bd BeaumarchaisPleasant and reasonably priced organic lunch in the basement canteen of this ultra bo-bo (bourgeois-bohème) designer store. A good place for lunch.
Chez Janou
2 Rue Roger VerlommeWonderful bistro.
Well, not coffee but rather more of a tea salon, oriental style.
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The Café Chinois
7 Rue de BéarnWell, not coffee but rather more of a tea salon, oriental style.
Entertainment & Activities
Playground in an atmospheric litttle park, 10 mins away by foot. There's also a children's theatre on the edge of the square, and a lovely tea salon.
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Le Square Gardette
24 Rue Saint-AmbroisePlayground in an atmospheric litttle park, 10 mins away by foot. There's also a children's theatre on the edge of the square, and a lovely tea salon.
Children's theatre. We enjoyed it with our 2 year old, but also for older kids. See more on http://www.akteon.fr/
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Aktéon Théâtre
11 Rue du Général BlaiseChildren's theatre. We enjoyed it with our 2 year old, but also for older kids. See more on http://www.akteon.fr/
Nice park for a stroll. La Ménagerie is a fine little zoo. The Natural history museum is vast and impressive. Good place for kids.
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Jardin des Plantes
Nice park for a stroll. La Ménagerie is a fine little zoo. The Natural history museum is vast and impressive. Good place for kids.
Simply a wonderful parisian garden/park. Sitting ina chair in the sun here is an essential Parisian experience. Also has children's playgrounds.
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Izityalo ze-Luxembourg
Simply a wonderful parisian garden/park. Sitting ina chair in the sun here is an essential Parisian experience. Also has children's playgrounds.
Interactive science and technology museum. For kids of all ages! :-)
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Isixeko saseSayensi naseNkampani
30 Av. Corentin CariouInteractive science and technology museum. For kids of all ages! :-)
Arts & Culture
Bastille Majestic Cinema Paris
2/4 Bd Richard-LenoirLocal cinema.
MK2 Bastille - Beaumarchais
4 Bd BeaumarchaisLocal cinema.
One of Paris' main operas - this is the newest one.
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Opera Bastille
Place de la BastilleOne of Paris' main operas - this is the newest one.
One of Paris' main contemporary art museums. Shocking architecture! Stunning view of the city from the top floor.
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Isteshini le-Centre Georges Pompidou
One of Paris' main contemporary art museums. Shocking architecture! Stunning view of the city from the top floor.
No introdution needed to this gigantic art museum.
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Restaurant Le Grand Louvre
No introdution needed to this gigantic art museum.
Musée d'Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d'HonneurVast art museum
Danish gallerist runs this beautiful little art gallery (the Marais is full of them, so a good place to start a gallery tour)
Galerie Maria Lund
48 Rue de TurenneDanish gallerist runs this beautiful little art gallery (the Marais is full of them, so a good place to start a gallery tour)
Wonderful colletion of Arab art and cultural heritage. Nice bookshop and splendid view from the rooftop terrace - good plae to take a mint tea
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Institute yaseArab
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-BernardWonderful colletion of Arab art and cultural heritage. Nice bookshop and splendid view from the rooftop terrace - good plae to take a mint tea
Sightseeing
A.k.a. La Coulée Verte. Viaduct turned into a green pedestrian path. Rose bushes, lavender, cherry trees. Great place for running. Actually begins near Bastille Opera, and leads 10 km on.
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Coulée Verte René-Dumont
1 Coulée Verte René-DumontA.k.a. La Coulée Verte. Viaduct turned into a green pedestrian path. Rose bushes, lavender, cherry trees. Great place for running. Actually begins near Bastille Opera, and leads 10 km on.
Best view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Take line 9 from Voltaire (direction: Pont de Sevres) to Trocadero.
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Place du Trocadero-et-du-11-Novembre
Place du Trocadéro et du 11 NovembreBest view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Take line 9 from Voltaire (direction: Pont de Sevres) to Trocadero.
Apart from its religious significance, this is also a good place to sip Moroccan mint tea.
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I-Great Mosque ye-Paris
2bis Pl. du Puits de l'ErmiteApart from its religious significance, this is also a good place to sip Moroccan mint tea.
Grand temple where famous French men and a few of its women are buried. Impressive, outside as well as inside.
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Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon
19 Pl. du PanthéonGrand temple where famous French men and a few of its women are buried. Impressive, outside as well as inside.
Michel Foucault and many other French intellectuals went to college here. Also site of the May 1968 riots.
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École Normale Supérieure
45 Rue d'UlmMichel Foucault and many other French intellectuals went to college here. Also site of the May 1968 riots.
Such a beautiful church on the top of the Montmatre hills
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Sacre-Coeur
35 Rue du Chevalier de la BarreSuch a beautiful church on the top of the Montmatre hills
Walk up into the Arc de Triomphe for a truly stellar view of the Champs-Elysees and surroundings.
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I-Arc de Triomphe
Place Charles de GaulleWalk up into the Arc de Triomphe for a truly stellar view of the Champs-Elysees and surroundings.
It would be blasphemous not to list the Eiffel Tower here.
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I-Eiffel Tower
5 Av. Anatole FranceIt would be blasphemous not to list the Eiffel Tower here.
Music museum, quite interactive. Located in La Villette.
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Isixeko saseMzantsi
221 Av. Jean JaurèsMusic museum, quite interactive. Located in La Villette.
Paris' perhaps most famous cemetery. Oscar Wilde's lipstick-covered monument is a must-see. Jim Morrison rests there too. Just walk up the hill on rue de la Roquette to get there. A pêaceful place.
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Paris' perhaps most famous cemetery. Oscar Wilde's lipstick-covered monument is a must-see. Jim Morrison rests there too. Just walk up the hill on rue de la Roquette to get there. A pêaceful place.
The astonishing and opulent residence of the Sun King. An hour or so outside of Paris - you get there by the local train RER C, e.g. from Gare d'Austerlitz.
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Château de Versailles
The astonishing and opulent residence of the Sun King. An hour or so outside of Paris - you get there by the local train RER C, e.g. from Gare d'Austerlitz.
French painter Claude Monet's house and exuberant flower garden. A pleasant exursion from Paris, takes about an hour or a bit more by train. See http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm for details.
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Giverny
101-99 Rue Claude MonetFrench painter Claude Monet's house and exuberant flower garden. A pleasant exursion from Paris, takes about an hour or a bit more by train. See http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm for details.
Exquisite little sculpture museum. One of my favourite museums in Paris.
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I-Rodin Museum
77 Rue de VarenneExquisite little sculpture museum. One of my favourite museums in Paris.
Small Salvador Dali museum. I have not been there, but have heard it's good.
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Dali Paris
11 Rue PoulbotSmall Salvador Dali museum. I have not been there, but have heard it's good.
Shopping
Classic US bookshop, the best in Paris, just across the Notre Dame cathedral.
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Ibhukhresto le-Shakespeare ne-Company
37 Rue de la BûcherieClassic US bookshop, the best in Paris, just across the Notre Dame cathedral.
Quality frozen food. A sci-fi experience for some. We use it a lot, and they have lots of nice dishes. Try the confit de canard...
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Picard
14 Rue CustineQuality frozen food. A sci-fi experience for some. We use it a lot, and they have lots of nice dishes. Try the confit de canard...
Mariage Freres
30 Rue du Bourg TibourgRenowned tea store, and tea salon.