Where to eat · Chinese (Wenzhou) · € · 20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant
La Cantine Chinoise
Two decades of Wenzhou cooking at the bottom of Belleville, run by Chef Lin and his son: hand-folded ravioli, beef noodle soup, baozi from the bakery counter. The plates land around six or seven euros, which is most of the appeal.
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Lunch draws a queue; the baozi counter is the move if you want to eat and run. Closed Tuesday.
Getting there
- Belleville211170 m · 3 min walk
- Couronnes2400 m · 7 min walk
- Pyrenées11500 m · 9 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le PacifiqueCantonese / dim sum€ · 1 minA Cantonese hold-out on rue de Belleville, open since 1983 and built for long tables, steamer baskets and rotisserie meats. The dim sum is the cheap pleasure — order several baskets and the bill stays low — and the kitchen runs past midnight.
- Rue DénoyezStreet-art lane€ · 2 minA short Belleville lane repainted continuously for years — walls, shutters and shopfronts layered in spray paint, with someone usually at work on the next piece. The live, changeable half rather than a preserved set.
- Lao SiamThai / Lao€€ · 3 minA Belleville institution since 1985, founded by a Thai-Lao family and still cooking from the long menu that made its name: green papaya with pickled crab, crisp rice squares in coconut-shrimp-pork sauce, whole fish steamed in banana leaf. The décor is plain; the kitchen is not.
- Dong HuongVietnamese€ · 4 minA big, plain Belleville canteen that has poured pho and bo-bun for 25 years. Order either; bring a group.
- CombatCocktail bar€€ · 5 minA bright, women-led Belleville cocktail bar — inventive but unfussy drinks, windows that fold open over the sloping pavement in summer. A local's room, not a set-piece.
- Le BaratinBistro & natural wine€€ · 6 minRaquel Carena's daily blackboard — offal, fish, sweet-sour edges — helped invent Paris bistronomy and still pulls chefs on their nights off. The natural-wine list runs deep.
Where to stay near La Cantine Chinoise
- The People Paris BellevilleDesign hostel€ · 5 minAn art-deco social hostel in multicultural Belleville with a rooftop terrace and a live-music bar downstairs — the easy budget pick if you want to meet people.
- The Loft Boutique HostelBoutique hostel€ · 5 minA 29-room hostel up the hill on Rue Julien Lacroix, in the thick of Belleville's bars and Chinese-Tunisian restaurants. Air-conditioned rooms, a shared kitchen, and a furnished terrace with a bar for the climb home.
- Hôtel La Nouvelle République & HammamDesign hotel & hammam€€ · 12 minA design three-star on a side street in the triangle between République, Oberkampf and Bastille, with a hammam in the basement and rooms tuned for quiet — a calm room in a noisy quarter.
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The district · 20e
Belleville & Ménilmontant — The hill that talks backPère-Lachaise, the multicultural climb of Belleville with its Chinese and North-African kitchens and street art, and Ménilmontant's bars and music rooms. The city's most mixed, least polished, most alive eastern edge.
Best for: Travellers who want the real, diverse, cheap-eats Paris and a view from Parc de Belleville.
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