Address: 10 rue Lamarck, 75018
Nearest transport: Lamarck-Caulaincourt (12)
Hours: Open every day from 12-10:30pm. Sunday brunch from 11am-3pm.
Reservations: Last minute booking usually OK
Telephone: 01 42 64 90 23
Average price for dinner: 20-34€
Style of cuisine: French bistro, small plates
If you think food tastes better in a beautiful room, then you’ll love Le Mini Palais, where refined and playful cooking meets high design in a Paris landmark setting.Eric Fréchon of the Bristol is the consulting chef, present in spirit only, and the menu is as cosmopolitan as the crowd. Book a table on the terrace when weather permits. Open every day, all day.
The crêperie, behind Montparnasse, ranked #2 in Figaroscopes 2009 survey of the best galettes complètes in Paris. Continuous, all-day service.
This crêperie brings a little luxury to the genre, plus organic Bréton ingredients, a list of about 20 artisanal ciders, and Olivier Roellinger consulting. Continuous service every day.
The menu at Le Petit Trianon is typical café and brasserie fare: Croques monsieur et madame, salads, and tartines, plus some heartier plates including a burger, roast coquelet, and a roster of dessert classics. What’s atypical is the quality of the ingredients. A zinc bar, mismatched chairs and tables make this new spot feel very old, and that’s no accident. Open 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. every day, continuously, and if you stick to the formula you can easily get out for under 20€ a head.
This little Italian épicerie-à-manger, run by the former sommelier at ‘Rino, has four tables — two in and two out — where you can eat surrounded by exquisite spices, olive oils, stacks of wine, and a touch of flea market nostalgia.Open from 10 am to 11 pm every day but Sunday, when they close at 2 pm, and Monday, with an 8:30 pm closure.
The vegetarian Tamil cooking at Krishna Bhavan is generous, aromatic, colorful, and cheap. Get the thaali – a sampler of dals and stews served with rice — and wash it down with a mango lassi: There’s no beer here.Open every day from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
The latest addition to the city’s burgeoning boutique coffee scene, Coutume isn’t kidding around. Beans are roasted on the premises and brewed according to your preference: Pulled on a sports car of an espresso machine, siphoned through an apparatus that looks stolen from a lab, dripped through a cone filter, or 24 hour cold drip (geek alert!). There are excellent teas, too, and a lunch menu offers fresh salads and sandwiches. If the coffee hasn’t made you hyper enough, there is a selection of pastries from Pâtisserie de Rêves.
Does Candelaria serve the best tacos “this side of Jaurez“? No sabemos, but they are certainly among the best in Paris, a statement which, until the recent wave of Mexican openings (see for example El Nopal and Rice & Beans), didn’t meant much.
Once upon a time, Olivier Magny ran wine tastings and classes out of his own apartment. Now he’s opened a vast, slick wine bar near Les Halles with a list of about 500 bottles and 40 glass pours.
With Marcel comes another brunch spot with an Anglo accent, in this case both British (porridge, scones, an English breakfast) and American (fluffy blueberry pancakes, a BLT). They get it right, though, and that, plus a cool space on one of the prettiest corners on Montmartre, has made Marcel an instant hit with the locals who fill the place on the weekends, kids in tow.
This chic café, in an auction house just off the Champs-Elysées, offers solid renditions of could-be-in-any-major-city classics (Ceasar salad, spring rolls, pastas, club sandwiches, and even a cheeseburger), served by pretty waitresses in a beautifully designed room. A fine spot for afternoon tea.
A salade landaise served as a spring roll, mini croissants with truffles and ham, sardine rillettes, crisp polenta with smoked duck: This new address from Julien Duboué of Afaria serves up a lengthy list of creative tapas for gourmand grazing.
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