Where to eat · Corner brasserie · €€ · 7e · Eiffel Tower & Invalides
Au Canon des Invalides
A genuine corner brasserie on rue Saint-Dominique where regulars outnumber tourists, the daily specials are sharp, and the aligot — sausage over cheese-pulled potato — arrives in a quantity that defeats most.
Take the lunchtime plat du jour; a terrace table gets you the Eiffel Tower down the street.
Getting there
- La Tour Maubourg8260 m · 5 min walk
- Invalides813RER C340 m · 6 min walk
- Varenne13530 m · 10 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Markets of Parisstop 4 of 6 · 440 m
Rue Cler
Five blocks of pedestrianised market street in the 7th, between Avenue de la Motte-Picquet and Rue de Grenelle. Quieter and posher than Aligre — more bistros and patisseries, fewer haggling locals. Come for the cheese shops.
The Café du Marché on the corner of Rue Cler and Rue de Grenelle is the spot for a Sunday-morning omelette. Walk the street north-to-south. The fromagerie Marie-Anne Cantin (no. 12) is one of the city's best cheese shops; closed Mondays.
- Bridges of Parisstop 3 of 7 · 530 m
Pont Alexandre III
The most ornate bridge in Paris, opened for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Four 17-metre Beaux-Arts pillars topped with gilded statues. Named for the Russian tsar to seal the Franco-Russian alliance.
The four bronze pegasi at the corners are the photograph; for the wide shot, walk down the steps to the lower quay (Port des Champs-Élysées on the Right Bank, Port d'Orsay on the Left). The bridge is at its best at sunset when the gold leaf catches the light.
- Belle Époque Parisstop 1 of 6 · 530 m
Pont Alexandre III
The bridge built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle. Beaux-Arts at full volume — gilded fames, cherubs, cornucopias. Crossing it is the Belle-Époque overture.
Walk down to the lower quay (Port des Champs-Élysées) for the best view of the gilded statues against the sky. Worth doubling back to look at — most tours just cross and miss the underside.
- Paris-1900stop 2 of 6 · 530 m
Pont Alexandre III
1900. The bridge has not been altered since the day it opened for the Exposition Universelle. The gilding has been refreshed but the casts and stonework are 1900 originals.
Compare your view to a 1900 postcard — the only difference is the Eiffel Tower's antenna behind it (added 1957). Walk down to the lower quay for the elevation that postcard photographers used.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Cler HôtelBoutique hotel€€ · 7 minTwenty-six renovated rooms over the rue Cler market, with a marble fireplace in the lobby and a small terrace; rooms are tight but kept immaculate.
- Café du MarchéCafé / brasserie€€ · 8 minThe anchor café of the rue Cler market street, with one of the better sidewalk terraces in the Seventh and a board of plats du jour priced for people who actually live nearby.
- Hôtel du CadranBoutique hotel & spa€€ · 9 minFifty-three contemporary rooms just off rue Cler, with a free hot-tub-and-sauna spa, a vaulted-cellar breakfast room and a macaron counter by reception.
- PottokaBasque bistronomy€€ · 10 minSébastien Gravé cooks his Basque southwest with more finesse than the side-street address implies — piperade, axoa, a kitchen that takes its terroir seriously without lecturing about it.
- Le Cinq CodetDesign hotel€€€ · 10 minA 1930s telephone exchange behind Les Invalides, reworked by Jean-Philippe Nuel into something between a hotel and a collector's loft — some 400 artworks across 67 rooms and the corridors. A planted patio and a small spa with hammam.
- Musée des Égouts de ParisThe sewers museum€ · 11 minA museum inside the working sewer itself: a dry gallery on Belgrand's nineteenth-century network, then a wet gallery down in the live tunnels under the quai, smell included. Hugo set part of Les Misérables in these galleries.
The district · 7e
Eiffel Tower & Invalides — Monumental ParisThe Tower, the Champ de Mars, the Invalides dome, the Musée d'Orsay, and the market street Rue Cler. Grand, residential and a little stiff — the Paris of ministries and embassies.
Best for: Eiffel-view seekers and families who want order and big sights over nightlife.
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