Where to stay · Design hotel · €€€ · 3e · Haut Marais
Experimental Marais
The Experimental Group's 2025 flagship on rue du Temple, where Tristan Auer answered the Marais's medieval bones with grand arches and stained glass. The restaurant Temple & Chapon sits under a cathedral-scale glass roof; a pool waits in the spa below.
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A full five-star — the cocktail bar and restaurant are worth a visit even if you sleep elsewhere.
Getting there
- Arts et Métiers311290 m · 5 min walk
- Rambuteau11390 m · 7 min walk
- Temple3440 m · 8 min walk
Around the corner
Square du Temple – Elie-Wiesel · 160 m away
The Square du Temple – Elie-Wiesel is a garden square in Paris, France, in the 3rd arrondissement, established in 1857. It is one of 24 city squares planned and created by Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand. The square occupies the site of a medieval fortress in Paris, known as the Enclos du Temple, which was built by the Knights Templar. Parts of the fortress were later used as a prison during the French Revolution and then demolished by the mid-19th century.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Upper Maraisstop 1 of 6 · 160 m
Square du Temple
Where the medieval Temple complex once stood — the headquarters of the Knights Templar in France, demolished by Napoleon in 1808. Louis XVI was imprisoned in the Temple's tower from 1792 until his execution. Now a gentle public garden with a bandstand and a playground.
Enter from Rue de Bretagne. The bronze plaque on the south wall traces the outline of the medieval Temple precinct. The garden's hidden secret: a small carp pond at the back, almost always empty of visitors.
- Markets of Parisstop 1 of 6 · 300 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. Named for the red-clothed orphans of a nearby 16th-century orphanage. Now equal parts produce and prepared-food stalls; the Moroccan and Italian counters at lunch are excellent.
Closed Mondays. Lunch is the move — three or four prepared-food counters serve actual meals at communal tables in the back. The Moroccan tagine counter is the local favourite; arrive at noon to beat the queue. Closes 14:30.
- Rainy Day Parisstop 3 of 6 · 300 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. The covered hall has prepared-food counters with communal tables: Moroccan tagines, Italian pasta, Lebanese mezze. A reliable rainy-lunch.
Closed Mondays. Lunch is the move — counters serve until 14:30. The Moroccan tagine counter is the local favourite; arrive at noon to beat the queue.
- Secret Gardensstop 3 of 6 · 320 m
Jardin Anne Frank
Hidden behind the 17th-century Hôtel de Saint-Aignan (which houses the Jewish History Museum). Three small terraced gardens: an entry courtyard, an orchard with a chestnut tree grafted from the tree Anne Frank wrote about from her Amsterdam annexe, and a small kitchen garden. Inaugurated 2007.
Enter via the small archway at 14 Impasse Berthaud — there's no sign on the street; you're looking for an unmarked passageway. Free entry. The chestnut sapling is in the second courtyard, with a small plaque. Closes at dusk.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Hôtel Jules & JimBoutique hotel€€ · 2 minThree buildings knitted around two cobbled courtyards on a quiet Haut-Marais street, raised over a former precious-metals workshop. The courtyard bar with its outdoor fireplace has become a reason locals come in.
- Musée de la Chasse et de la NatureUnusual museum€€ · 3 minA Marais mansion where taxidermy, antique weaponry and contemporary art share period rooms — including a ceiling lined with owl feathers. One of the city's strangest, best small museums.
- Chez OmarNorth African couscous€€ · 5 minAn old-Marais brasserie that has poured couscous for decades — merguez, lamb brochettes, or the mixed-meat royale — in a room that fills loud and fast.
- Chez Alain Miam MiamGalette-sandwich counter€ · 6 minAlain Roussel griddles buckwheat galettes and toasted sandwiches to order — cured ham, comté, avocado, caramelised onions — a few steps from the Marché des Enfants Rouges. The queue at his counter is reliably the longest on the street.
- Le Traiteur Marocain (Enfants Rouges)Covered-market stall€ · 6 minA tiled corner stall inside Paris's oldest covered market, working through thirteen versions of couscous and a row of slow-cooked tagines under glass. The lemon chicken and the lamb-skewer couscous are the dependable orders, eaten elbow-to-elbow.
- Le 404Moroccan€€ · 6 minA Berber room in a 16th-century building near Arts et Métiers, lit dimly enough that you squint at the menu, turning out tagines and couscous with seven vegetables. Little has changed in years, which is the point.
The district · 3e
Haut Marais — The upper MaraisThe quieter, cooler half of the Marais — galleries, the Carnavalet and Picasso museums, the Marché des Enfants Rouges, and small designers on Rue de Bretagne. Medieval streets with a contemporary tenant list.
Best for: Design and gallery people who want the Marais without the worst of the crush.
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