Guidebook for Paris

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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.
45 locals recommend
Bréguet - Sabin
45 locals recommend
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).
691 locals recommend
Aligre Market
Place d'Aligre
691 locals recommend
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).
Charming little covered market, and you can also get Japanese food at benches. Rue de Bretagne is a nice Marais street.
1003 locals recommend
Marche des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne
1003 locals recommend
Charming 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.
62 locals recommend
La Fée Verte
108 Rue de la Roquette
62 locals recommend
Another 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 Roquette
Very 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.
278 locals recommend
Rue Oberkampf
Rue Oberkampf
278 locals recommend
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.

Food Scene

Spacious quality bistro, hence child-friendly even with a pram
12 locals recommend
Café Truc
8 Rue Froment
12 locals recommend
Spacious quality bistro, hence child-friendly even with a pram
Paris’ best entrecote/steak frites with sauce bearnaise!
68 locals recommend
Le Café des Musées
49 Rue de Turenne
68 locals recommend
Paris’ 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...
91 locals recommend
Bistrot Paul Bert
18 Rue Paul Bert
91 locals recommend
Excellent, 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!
48 locals recommend
Al Taglio
2 Bis Rue Neuve Popincourt
48 locals recommend
Best 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.
69 locals recommend
Rose Bakery
30 Rue Debelleyme
69 locals recommend
Excellent and wholly organic (San Franciso'ish, I should think) brunch, lunch, and shop.
Cool café.
66 locals recommend
Barbershop
68 Avenue de la République
66 locals recommend
Cool café.
Very nice little restaurant - not entirely cheap - but mouth-watering!
21 locals recommend
Le Petit Pontoise
9 Rue de Pontoise
21 locals recommend
Very 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.
31 locals recommend
A la renaissance
87 Rue de la Roquette
31 locals recommend
Classically 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.
586 locals recommend
Merci
111 Bd Beaumarchais
586 locals recommend
Pleasant and reasonably priced organic lunch in the basement canteen of this ultra bo-bo (bourgeois-bohème) designer store. A good place for lunch.
Wonderful bistro.
256 locals recommend
Chez Janou
2 Rue Roger Verlomme
256 locals recommend
Wonderful bistro.
Well, not coffee but rather more of a tea salon, oriental style.
8 locals recommend
The Café Chinois
7 Rue de Béarn
8 locals recommend
Well, 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.
144 locals recommend
Le Square Gardette
24 Rue Saint-Ambroise
144 locals recommend
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.
Children's theatre. We enjoyed it with our 2 year old, but also for older kids. See more on http://www.akteon.fr/
8 locals recommend
Aktéon Théâtre
11 Rue du Général Blaise
8 locals recommend
Children'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.
1390 locals recommend
Jardin des Plantes
1390 locals recommend
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.
2469 locals recommend
Luxembourg Gardens
2469 locals recommend
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! :-)
565 locals recommend
City of Science and Industry
30 Av. Corentin Cariou
565 locals recommend
Interactive science and technology museum. For kids of all ages! :-)

Arts & Culture

Local cinema.
44 locals recommend
Bastille Majestic Cinema Paris
2/4 Bd Richard-Lenoir
44 locals recommend
Local cinema.
Local cinema.
99 locals recommend
MK2 Bastille - Beaumarchais
4 Bd Beaumarchais
99 locals recommend
Local cinema.
One of Paris' main operas - this is the newest one.
542 locals recommend
Opera Bastille
Place de la Bastille
542 locals recommend
One 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.
118 locals recommend
Centre Georges Pompidou station
118 locals recommend
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.
12 locals recommend
Restaurant Le Grand Louvre
12 locals recommend
No introdution needed to this gigantic art museum.
Vast art museum
1191 locals recommend
Musée d'Orsay
1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur
1191 locals recommend
Vast 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 Turenne
Danish 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
247 locals recommend
Arab World Institute
1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard
247 locals recommend
Wonderful 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.
635 locals recommend
Coulée Verte René-Dumont
1 Coulée Verte René-Dumont
635 locals recommend
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.
Best view of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Take line 9 from Voltaire (direction: Pont de Sevres) to Trocadero.
230 locals recommend
Place du Trocadero-et-du-11-Novembre
Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
230 locals recommend
Best 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.
393 locals recommend
Grand Mosque of Paris
2bis Pl. du Puits de l'Ermite
393 locals recommend
Apart 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.
6 locals recommend
Hôtel Les Dames du Panthéon
19 Pl. du Panthéon
6 locals recommend
Grand 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.
8 locals recommend
École Normale Supérieure
45 Rue d'Ulm
8 locals recommend
Michel 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
2106 locals recommend
Sacré-Cœur
35 Rue du Chevalier de la Barre
2106 locals recommend
Such 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.
1042 locals recommend
Arc de Triomphe
Place Charles de Gaulle
1042 locals recommend
Walk 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.
2943 locals recommend
Eiffel Tower
5 Av. Anatole France
2943 locals recommend
It would be blasphemous not to list the Eiffel Tower here.
Music museum, quite interactive. Located in La Villette.
212 locals recommend
Cité de la Musique
221 Av. Jean Jaurès
212 locals recommend
Music 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.
849 locals recommend
Château de Versailles
849 locals recommend
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.
246 locals recommend
Giverny
101-99 Rue Claude Monet
246 locals recommend
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.
Exquisite little sculpture museum. One of my favourite museums in Paris.
845 locals recommend
Musee Rodin
77 Rue de Varenne
845 locals recommend
Exquisite 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.
155 locals recommend
Dali Paris
11 Rue Poulbot
155 locals recommend
Small 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.
204 locals recommend
Shakespeare and Company Bookstore
37 Rue de la Bûcherie
204 locals recommend
Classic 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...
168 locals recommend
Picard
14 Rue Custine
168 locals recommend
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...
Renowned tea store, and tea salon.
106 locals recommend
Mariage Freres
30 Rue du Bourg Tibourg
106 locals recommend
Renowned tea store, and tea salon.