Where to eat · Boulangerie-pâtisserie · €€ · 1er · Louvre & Les Halles
BO&MIE Louvre-Rivoli
A polished bakery-café a short walk from the Louvre, with more than fifty seats. The pain au praliné and the Madagascar-vanilla flan are the reasons people queue; the croissants use Charentes-Poitou butter and behave accordingly.
Skip the sit-down brunch menu and assemble your own from the counter — individual items keep you well under €20.
Getting there
- Louvre Rivoli120 m · 1 min walk
- Pont Neuf7250 m · 5 min walk
- Palais Royal - Musée Du Louvre17390 m · 7 min walk
Around the corner
Louvre Pyramid · 260 m away
The Louvre Pyramid is a large glass-and-metal entrance way and skylight designed by the Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei. The pyramid is in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris, surrounded by three smaller pyramids of the same style which also serve as lightwells. The large pyramid serves as the main entrance way to the Louvre Museum, allowing light to the below ground visitors hall, while also allowing sight lines of the palace to visitors in the hall, and through access galleries to the different wings of the palace. Completed in 1989 as part of the broader Grand Louvre project, it has become a landmark of Paris and a symbol of the museum.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Iconic Parisstop 3 of 8 · 260 m
Louvre Pyramid
I. M. Pei's 1989 glass pyramid in the Cour Napoléon — the main entrance to the museum and a permanent argument with traditionalists.
If you're not going inside the museum, walk through the small archway under the north wing of the Cour Carrée — fewer tourists and the symmetry of the courtyard is the secret photograph. The southern arch frames the pyramid perfectly.
- Bouillons & Brasseriesstop 2 of 6 · 300 m
Au Pied de Cochon
6 Rue Coquillière, opened 1947 to feed the workers of Les Halles market. Open 24 hours since 1948 (briefly closed for COVID). The eponymous pig's foot — grilled, breaded, with béarnaise — is still the move at 4am.
Best between 1 and 4 am — the room fills with chefs from other restaurants finishing their shifts. Order the soupe à l'oignon gratinée and the pied de cochon panné. The basement bar is open on the weekends and serves until dawn.
- Covered Passagesstop 1 of 6 · 320 m
Galerie Véro-Dodat
Opened 1826 by two charcutiers (Véro and Dodat) who'd just made fortunes in cured meat. Black-and-white marble floor, 38 mahogany shop fronts, gas lamps converted to electric in 1923. One of the best-preserved arcades in the city.
Enter from Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, opposite the Bourse de Commerce. The Christian Louboutin atelier is at no. 19 — discreet, worth a look through the window. Exit at Rue de Croix-des-Petits-Champs and walk north.
- Rainy Day Parisstop 6 of 6 · 320 m
Galerie Véro-Dodat
1826 covered arcade in the 1st. Smaller and more discreet than Vivienne, with a black-and-white marble chequerboard floor and 38 mahogany shop fronts. Christian Louboutin's atelier is at no. 19. Ends the day with a return to glass-roofed shelter.
Enter from Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The small Café de l'Époque mid-arcade serves a respectable hot chocolate. Walk slowly — most of the shop fronts are antiquities and rare-book dealers, the kind of windows you stop at by accident.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le Garde RobeNatural wine bar with food€€ · 2 minA narrow natural-wine bar near the Louvre that pours organic bottles and feeds you charcuterie, cheese and a few cooked plates without ceremony. Bottles line the walls; you eat off whatever surface is free.
- Hôtel de la Place du LouvreBoutique hotel€€ · 3 minAn Esprit de France address two minutes from the Louvre's east colonnade, with twenty rooms that look onto the Gothic face of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. Breakfast is laid in a vaulted stone cellar once connected to the palace.
- La SamaritaineDepartment-store experience€ · 4 minReopened in 2021 after sixteen years dark, restored by LVMH. Frantz Jourdain's Art Nouveau hall keeps its wrought-iron staircase, enamelled-lava signage and the Jourdain peacock fresco — 115 metres of painted birds running below the glass roof.
- Le Tout-ParisRooftop bar€€€ · 4 minThe 7th-floor bar at Cheval Blanc, a terrace panorama from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower over the Seine. The bar takes no reservations; a summer-only rooftop, Le Céleste, sits above it.
- Galerie Véro-DodatCovered passage€ · 4 minTwo pork butchers built this neoclassical run in 1826 and spent the money on it: marble columns, brass fittings, painted ceiling panels and a black-and-white tiled floor almost intact. Now home to Christian Louboutin's flagship and antique-instrument dealers.
- Bourse de Commerce — Pinault CollectionContemporary-art foundation€€ · 5 minFrançois Pinault dropped a nine-metre Tadao Ando concrete cylinder inside the old grain exchange, leaving the 1889 glass dome and its painted frieze of colonial commerce overhead — a juxtaposition the curators don't pretend to resolve.
The district · 1er
Louvre & Les Halles — The centre of the centreThe geographic and royal heart: the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Palais-Royal arcades, and the glass belly of Les Halles. Grand and central, emptier of residents than it looks, and priced accordingly.
Best for: First-timers who want everything within a walk — and don't mind paying for the address.
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