This is a true café, open all day long starting at 8 am. But it’s the natural wines and simple food that keep this place busy.
You’ll be surrounded by an array of tempting products if you decide to lunch at this charming canal-side épicerie. On the menu: Comforting classics, fresh salads, and a worthy brunch of salmon rillettes and scrambled eggs. Under 20 euros if you order a formule, a bit more à la carte.
What was once the quirky and playful sushi restaurant Rice & Fish is now the quirky and playful Mexican restaurant Rice & Beans.
With its zinc bar, hearty home cooking, and colorful local clientele, this beloved wine bar (and its Turkish toilet) seems impervious to change. Meals are served only at lunch; the rest of the day you can stop for a glass of Morgon or Brouilly and a snack. Wonderfully, refreshingly cheap.
Take a seat at the counter of this slick little sushi bar and watch chef Aroun Tanovan turn out pristine sashimi, riotous rolls of pink and green, and salads of seaweed, ginger, and yuzu.
Colorful, Japanese-inflected salads, soups, and small plates, as well as a decidedly non-Japanese coffee cream tart, courtesy of a Rose Bakery alum. Two locations, one on the rapidly changing rue du Paradis, another in the already thoroughly bobofied upper Marais.
At this café/exhibition space on a quiet impasse near Place de Clichy, a pair of former Rose Bakery cooks are giving modern British cooking a very good name, and a serious barista is serving some of the best coffee in town.
It’s pizza by the kilo at this (vaguely) Roman-style spot. Bright lights, high stools and cheap wine by the carafe. Locations in Oberkampf and the upper Marais.
Régis’ fantastic oysters come from the Marenne-Oleron and are available for dégustation on the spot in the sea blue dining room, to to take home. Take note: Like most oyster bars, Régis has a long summer closure.
“Cook globally, source locally” could be the motto of Les Grandes Tables. Chef Fabrice Biasiolo’s menu draws from world traditions, but the ingredients are French, organic, sustainable…you get the idea. The reviews are mixed. Quirky historical bonus: Le 104 (a cultural center) is housed in what used to be the public morgue.
A crowd queues at this sliver of a taqueria off the canal for Claudia and Alejandro’s tacos, burritos and quesadillas. There are only two stools in the tiny place, so plan on taking it to go.
The appeal of Merce’s uber-cool upper Marais café lies in both its style (a very deliberate mix of retro furnishings and fixtures) and its substance (fresh and colorful salads, American-style bakery goods, and some of the best espresso in Paris).
“Pas comme les autres,” is the motto at kitschy cool Pink Flamingo Pizza, and they aren’t kidding. Yes, there’s a margherita (here called the “Dante”), but the “Ghandi” is topped with sag paneer and baba ghanoush; the “Che”, with Cuban roast pork and fried plantains. No word on whether the “Almodovar” includes a drop of Penelope Cruz’s blood. Take-out and delivery available at all locations.
This fun and funky sushi bar closed to make room for Rice & Beans, and now has reopened on the same block, serving playful rolls that “pack a technicolor punch”.
This contemporary bistro was seriously hyped in its early days, thanks in part to the 37€, five-course menu and a young chef with a great resumé, and perhaps the novelty of a middle-of-nowhere location, deep in the fifth.
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1 May 2012
Le Fooding’s Veillées Foodstock festival and another stellar (and free!) wine tasting at Caves Augé.
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