A nice and cool spot. On a corner in the upper Marais, this seafood tapas bar is a good acquaintance. If you drop by during the afternoon, you will surely find pleasure enjoying the small sea food tastings in the large bar with a glass of wine. A couple of oysters. Some urchins. A healthy snack made on beets. Not really sophisticated, but very elegant and simply good. If you're still hanging out in the evening, or if you just happen to drop by later on, the place turns into a real restaurant with a bit more comprehensive menu. The somewhat narrow, but good selection of wines is mostly natural. Despite some reservations to natural wines, we only had rich and very beautifully harmonic wines. Excellent. Reasonable prices.
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Cave Nansouty
A lively place that is much better than it looks from the outside. Sounds scary? well, just try it then... A very easy going classical no bullshit-bistro. Very good wines - selected to please rather than to show off.
Le Pantruche
Le Pantruche is an excellent new charming bistro, located in a small side street, right off the vibrant Rue des Martyrs. Discrete, but warmly decorated, and with perhaps just as many tables inside as you could imagine. As both guests and staff are nice, open and accommodating; the proximity of a large number of potential friends just adds to the vibe of the place. The kitchen is inventive, but solidly grounded. Particularly worth exploring is the excellent application of fish and sea food, for example in oyster tartare, mackerel, or the likes. Wines are good - some even very good - and available for a bargain. Most definitely worth the visit - again...
lepantruche.com
lepantruche.com
Chez Moustache
We are at a beardy place. And as strange as this may sound, it feels good. Bistrot Rigolo as they call it themselves. We are in the 11th, on the corner of Amelot and J-P Timbaud, where this new cool resto de tendance is welcoming you. A huge and usually quite crowded bar desk is at the entrance, until you're skillfully guided towards the back of the two rooms where tables are somewhat randomly organized. The staff is cool, friendly and attentive. The food is a good, not necessarily highly inventive, but a well grounded, creative cuisine de marche; things are well prepared, nicely served, and simply taste very good. An excellent place. Although the wines are a bit pricy for the quality, the place is highly recommended, particularly for the cool ambiance and the overall experience. Good cocktails too. For example in case you've actually left the table but somehow feel the need to chill for a second or two as the bar greets you again, just before reaching the exit...
La Quincaillerie
La Quincaillerie is yet another hip-cool kind of place in the still filthy-greasy, but now even more than ever up-and-coming area in Faubourg-Saint Denis. Lively, good ambience, this half bar, half restaurant is laid back and makes you feel instantly at home (except for a few bewildered banana flies). The staff is kind of laid back - perhaps even a bit too much - but always very friendly and nice. With an ambitious chef in the kitchen, eager to get the finalized servings out where they belong in due time, this is kind of funny to watch. Decent wines on the glass, and some interesting, tasty and well prepared servings in the lower end of the bobo-bistrot price range. Go there because its always lively. Or go there before you're having some drinks somewhere else in the area. Or just go there because it's all in all a good experience.
Le Floreal
If you happen to find yourself looking for a good spot to eat between the 11th and the 19th, Le Floreal is most certainly an option. Although it's actually located in the 10th (which would make some people say you kind of missed your target), they will serve you a very decent meal, not extravagant, but by the book. The place is large and lively, and the cocktails served in the bar might just as well also be the main reason for a visit. Informal and yet with classical style at the small tables in the restaurant section. The menu is basic and classical, but things are well prepared. Also the wines are good value for your money.
www.lefloreal.fr
www.lefloreal.fr
Coinstot
Coinstot is a crowded and always lively wine bar, located at the end of the charming Passage des Panoramas near the Grands Boulevards. The wines - mostly natural - are excellent and well selected. The choice of producers reflect that natural wines can and should be not only an ideological choice, but also and mainly about finding the good wines. And not necessarily from the more well know appellations. Also the food is well selected, from the oysters, the charcuterie plates to the well treated meat. It's all good. The prices are most certainly reasonable; this is a place where you can easily spend a good evening accompanied by a soul full kitchen.
www.coinstot-vino.com
www.coinstot-vino.com
Point Bulles
At the Marche Saint Germain. An easy, light and delicate Champagne bar welcomes you: Point Bulles. The food is just as light and sparkling as you would expect. The tables outside are of course packed during the summer. Several very nice Champagnes can be found here, somewhat reasonably priced. Small elegant tasting dishes or larger plates to share. Although somewhat mixed and certainly not with the same sense of terroir as in the bottles. The food remains decent, and gain points on the ideas and the servings, rather than the preparation. And you simply just get delighted by sipping bubbles in this elegant part of Paris.
www.pointbulles.com
www.pointbulles.com
Aux Deux Amis
This place is a strange mix between a noisy bar and a classy neo-bistrot. For those who prefer things quiet and nicely wrapped in, this might be a bit to much. For the rest of us, the place is excellent for tasting a series of interesting and well prepared dishes. Although the noyeau is French, some twists of Mediterranean kitchen are to be expected. Excellent wines. Very much Oberkamf.
Frenchie - bar a vin
Frenchie is an excellent wine bar serving bistronomy in a cosy and intriguing ambiance. Located in a small alley, on a side street from Rue des Petits Carreaux and Montorgueil, this place. The tables are small, so if the place is full, you're likely to be placed at the table of other guests. Normally for the better, but if you can find a corner, hold on to it. The food comes in small, well prepared, elegant, tasteful servings, allowing for real dining as well as curious snacking.
Jaja
JaJa labels themselves as a restaurant of "sympathetic kitchen and wine". Located in the very heart of Marais, the place is most often crowded and lively, full of people. Although the crowd is often rather touristy, some locals also drop by to add to the authenticity. The place is designed to be unpretentiously good, and do deliver on this, somewhat, overall. The wines are good, but too expensive for the food. A small court yard terrace adds to the charm, both summer and winter.
www.jaja-resto.com
www.jaja-resto.com
La Chasse Gardee
La Chasse Gardee is a Batignolles adventure... a small, funny bar with a warm but kitsch deco, mixing deer hunting with a library cocktail bar. The food is traditional, very decent and well priced. The wines are ok, and you easily forgive them that instead of a wine menu, you just go and have a look at whats stocked in the wine rack. The staff is nice and cool. The ambience is also good, relaxed, although moving somewhat unpredictably. But you should go there, not because of the above, but solely to explore just what might happen, when the dinner is over and the hunting starts...
Des Gars dans la Cuisine
Guys in the kitchen. And for the better. A nice and cosy place in the heart of Marais. A simple and intuitive kitchen with appealing dishes, decently delivered. Rue Vieille du Temple is the like heartbeat of the neighborhood, and the restaurant hits the unpretentious and laid back vibe it intends to. The intentions are all good and the results is not bad. The servants are accommodating and you feel welcome chez les gars.
La Societe
La Societe is located as discrete as possible when the address is Place Saint-Germain. The restaurant is first of all highly elegant. An esthetic project, well implemented to the exclusive recruitment of an unusual high number (100%) of beautiful (and handsome for that matter) and well sculptured waiters. From this pleasant fact follows the next obvious fact, so are the customers. In the summer, a terrace is organized, smoothly maintaining a natural distinction between beauty and all the rest of it. The food is also sharp - of course.
Barav
Barav - short for "bar à vin" - is a cool wine bar in a perfectly chill neighborhood. Located in the Haut-Marais the bar is the perfect yet unpretentious hang out place, when you just want to share a good bottle of wine with some good friends. Or even a stranger... The concept is simple: A simple bar on a corner, a lot of randomly selected chairs and tables where people can sit. A limited menu. A wine shop of the house next door, open until 22.00, the "cork price" or droit de bouchon is almost ridiculous at 7 euros (but also helps attract a mixed and funny crowd of young locals). This concept allows you to taste a rich variety of very good and well selected wines for little money. Once the wine shop closes next door, a decent selection remains in the bar. Simple dishes are served, and a number of decent servings with cheese or charcuterie.
Coffee Parisien
Coffee Parisien is a hangout for French US addicts and others as well. With some style elements from a US burger bar, the walls are covered with Elvis and JFK posters. The menu is simple, the prices are low, but the servings are decent. However, do not expect huge burgers american style - the sizes are considerably smaller. A nice bar desk is the place to hang out or to meet people. A place where you can stay for hours or just drop by for a quick burger.
Chez Prune
Chez prune is basically one of the cafes or bistros that the life around the canals is turning around. They do actually serve very decent food. Classical bistro food, with no pretensions of being more. But of course, this is not why you come here. You come here for the vibe, because you're strolling around the canals. You come here for the lively ambiance, to have fun, and go out. Rightly.
Mood
A perfect recipe for a tourist ripoff: Big fancy restaurant in the upper end of the Champs. However, the place surprises positively. The concept is simple: Bar in the basement, and restaurant on the first floor. Nice looking waitresses and somewhat posh interior. But the food is overall ok. If the hunger is very strong, it might be a somewhat decent way out...
Hotel Amour
The 9th actually holds a number of good restaurants and lively bars. Hotel Amour is one of them, although it's less for the food than for the name, the ambiance and the fact that the kitchen is open untill 23. One main restaurant inside and a charming garden cultivated with cheerful people and good ambiance. Food and wine is ok.
www.hotelamourparis.fr
www.hotelamourparis.fr
Le pas sage
First of all, hold on to your belongings when you're moving around in the sometimes hipster-slum'ish, sometimes just measly street of Rue Saint Denis, as you're staring at one of the few businesses older than serving food. This changes somewhat once you enter the small three meter something shelf of a restaurant, le pas sage. The place is locate in an old Parisian passage, not too far away from the quite different Montorgeuil, while the wording in French means something like "the wise step". The place is gifted with beautiful waitresses demonstrating the obvious limits of the outside business. The food is good, well prepared and the prices are absolutely reasonable. The deco is relaxed and their wines are unpretentious but well selected. A good juicy pork is worth a try.
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