Where to stay · Rooftop-view boutique hotel · €€ · 3e · Haut Marais
Hôtel National des Arts et Métiers
A Raphael-Navot-designed Marais boutique with a seasonal panoramic rooftop — Beaubourg to Notre-Dame — and a botanical cocktail bar at street level.
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The rooftop is seasonal; check before booking if the view is the point. The Herbarium bar runs year-round.
Getting there
- Réaumur Sébastopol34130 m · 2 min walk
- Arts et Métiers311260 m · 5 min walk
- Étienne Marcel4330 m · 6 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Secret Gardensstop 3 of 6 · 540 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.
- Sweet Parisstop 3 of 6 · 540 m
Stohrer
51 Rue Montorgueil, opened 1730 by Nicolas Stohrer, pâtissier to Louis XV. The oldest patisserie in Paris. The baba au rhum was invented here. Walls are classified historic. The window display alone is a 290-year-old argument for sugar.
Order a baba au rhum (the original recipe; ask them to add the rum at the counter) and walk it across the street to one of the benches on Rue Montorgueil. The Puits d'Amour — caramelised cream puff — is the second classic.
- Markets of Parisstop 2 of 6 · 550 m
Rue Montorgueil
Pedestrianised market street running through the 1st and 2nd. Cheese, fish, oysters, bread, wine, all on one block. Stohrer (1730) is mid-street; Le Rocher de Cancale (1846) was already a writers' hangout when Balzac was alive.
Walk the whole length, north to south, between Rue Tiquetonne and Rue Saint-Sauveur. The fish stall opposite Stohrer opens at 7 am with the previous day's catch. La Maison Stohrer (no. 51) is on the Sweet Paris tour; allow time to detour in.
- Marais & Bastillestop 6 of 6 · 580 m
Centre Pompidou
Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's 1977 'inside-out' museum: pipes and ducts on the outside, exhibition floors uncluttered by them. Closed for renovation 2025–2030.
While it's closed, walk around the back to the Stravinsky Fountain (Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely, 1983) — sixteen kinetic sculptures in a shallow pool. The square in front of the Pompidou usually has buskers; the cobbles slope so a coffee at the corner cafés gives you a slight downhill view of it all.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Gaîté LyriqueDigital-culture arts centre€ · 2 minA 19th-century operetta house converted into a centre for digital creation, reopened to the public on 13 January 2026 after a long closure. Talks, debates, screenings and concerts, Tuesday to Sunday.
- Le 404Moroccan€€ · 3 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.
- Passage du Grand-CerfCovered passage€ · 5 minBuilt in 1825 and, at nearly twelve metres, the tallest of the passages, with a wrought-iron-and-glass roof that floods the alley with light. It went over to makers rather than tourists: jewellers, lighting designers, leatherworkers and small studios, several working in view.
- Hôtel TiquetonneBudget hotel€ · 6 minForty-odd plain rooms, several with the bathroom down the hall and none with a television, on a pedestrian lane off the Montorgueil market.
- O'KariHammam (women only)€€€ · 6 minA women-only Moroccan hammam near Montorgueil, sold as timed rituals — steam, black-soap gommage and rhassoul clay — by appointment rather than drop-in.
- Hôtel Jules & JimBoutique hotel€€ · 7 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.
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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