Where to eat · Pan-Asian neo-bistro · €€ · 10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord
Brigade du Tigre
A pan-Asian neo-bistro of sharing plates with a Michelin Bib Gourmand — black-sesame onigiri with aged Comté, hoisin-glazed beef cheek.
The ~€23 lunch formula is the value; à la carte climbs fast.
Getting there
- Bonne Nouvelle89330 m · 6 min walk
- Grands Boulevards89360 m · 7 min walk
- Cadet7370 m · 7 min walk
Around the corner
Walks that pass nearby
- Cinemas That Survivedstop 1 of 6 · 220 m
Le Grand Rex
1 Boulevard Poissonnière, opened December 1932 — the largest cinema in Europe (2,800 seats), and still operating. Art Deco facade, fortress-style spire, Spanish-Mediterranean themed interior with painted starry ceiling that has its own weather (clouds drift across before the film). Classified historic monument 1981.
Worth seeing a film in the main hall (Salle Grand Rex) — the smaller side rooms are ordinary. There's a backstage tour (les coulisses du cinéma) that includes the projection booth. The starry-ceiling 'meteo' starts about 15 min before the show.
- Painters' Viewsstop 4 of 7 · 380 m
Manet at the Folies-Bergère
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1882), Manet's last major painting — the barmaid Suzon at the marble counter, the mirror behind her reflecting the audience and chandeliers. The original is at the Courtauld in London. The cabaret has operated continuously at 32 Rue Richer since 1869.
The famous bar from the painting was on the upper-balcony level, not the ground floor. The exterior — with its 1929 Art Deco facade — is what's visible from the street; the interior renovation has changed the bar's exact location but the cabaret still operates nightly.
- Bouillons & Brasseriesstop 1 of 6 · 410 m
Bouillon Chartier
7 Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, opened 1896. Still the original recipe: long communal tables, paper tablecloths, waiters in long aprons writing your order on the cloth itself. Three-course dinners under €20. The interior is classified historic.
No reservations — go at 17:30 (opening) or after 21:30 to skip the worst queue. Communal seating: you'll share a table with strangers, which is the whole point. Don't expect refined cooking; expect oeuf mayonnaise, hachis parmentier, and a crème caramel for €15 total.
- Paris-1900stop 5 of 6 · 410 m
Bouillon Chartier
1896. The dining room — coat racks, brass luggage shelves above the booths, beveled mirrors, painted ceiling — is unchanged since opening. Even the system of writing your bill on the paper tablecloth dates from 1896.
Stand at the entrance just inside the courtyard for thirty seconds and look at the room before you're seated. Best photo of the room is from the doorway. Order anything cheap; you're paying for the dining room, not the dish.
Within a few minutes' walk
- L'OfficeNeo-bistro€€ · 1 minA tight dining room near the Folies Bergère running a short market menu that changes with what came in — the sort of place the neighbourhood books for its own lunches rather than its visitors'.
- Le RicherNeo-bistro (no reservations)€€ · 1 minCharles Compagnon's no-booking room across from its sibling L'Office, with a weekly-rewritten menu that swings from low-fuss to genuinely precise — mushroom ravioli in a shiitake-lemongrass broth one week, something else the next.
- Hôtel de NellDesign hotel€€€ · 2 minThirty-three rooms on a quiet street off the Grands Boulevards, designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte in sand tones, oak and stone — hushed where the neighbourhood is loud.
- Hôtel Paradis ParisBudget design hotel€€ · 3 minA 3-star boutique on a quiet pedestrianised street between Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est; 38 individually styled, light-filled rooms with distinctive headboards.
- 9Hotel OpéraBoutique hotel€€ · 6 minA grey-and-wood boutique near the Grands Boulevards with a ground-floor coworking table — printer, sockets, long hours — which few Paris hotels bother to provide.
- Rex ClubElectronic club€€ · 6 minParis's longest-running room for techno and house, running its programming through a Funktion-One rig that rewards the people who came for the sound rather than the scene. Long sets that don't bother with last call until daylight.
The district · 10e
Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord — Canal ParisThe locks and iron footbridges of the Canal Saint-Martin, the South Asian Passage Brady, the Faubourg Saint-Denis food strip, and two big stations. Young, mixed, and where a lot of the good cheap eating is.
Best for: Twenty-somethings and food-first travellers; lively rather than pretty.
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