Where to eat · Crêperie · €€ · 14e · Montparnasse & Denfert
La Crêperie de Josselin
A Montparnasse fixture on a street stacked with rival crêperies, Josselin wins the block on a thick, lace-edged buckwheat galette and a permanent queue. Order the galette complète and finish with a salted-butter caramel crêpe that arrives properly drenched.
No reservations and a near-permanent line, so arrive at noon or just before the 6:30pm dinner opening.
Getting there
- Edgar Quinet6140 m · 3 min walk
- Gare Montparnasse461213240 m · 4 min walk
- Vavin4280 m · 5 min walk
Around the corner
Le Dôme de Marseille · 230 m away
Le Dôme de Marseille is an indoor amphitheatre, located in Marseille, France. The capacity of the arena is 8,500 people.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Literary Cafésstop 6 of 7 · 230 m
Le Dôme
1898. The Lost Generation's eastern outpost on the Carrefour Vavin. Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Man Ray, Kiki de Montparnasse. Now mostly a serious seafood brasserie — but the vintage coffered ceiling is unchanged.
Even if you don't eat, walk in for thirty seconds — the entrance vestibule has framed period photographs of the regulars. The seafood plateau is the move at lunch; for a quicker visit, sit at the bar and order a half-dozen Belon oysters.
- Paris Verticalstop 5 of 6 · 250 m
Tour Montparnasse
210 m. The 56th-floor observation deck and rooftop terrace. The single best view of the Eiffel Tower in the city — because you're looking at it from above, with the whole of central Paris between.
Take the lift (38 seconds) to floor 56, then a short staircase to the open-air rooftop. Better than the Eiffel for sunset because the Eiffel is in your photo. Closed for maintenance occasionally; check the day-of schedule.
- Bouillons & Brasseriesstop 6 of 6 · 250 m
La Coupole
102 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 1927. Already a stop on the Literary Cafés tour, but worth ending here for dinner — the Art Deco columns light up at night and the lamb curry has been on the menu, unchanged, since opening.
Reserve in advance. Ask for a table along the perimeter so you can see the painted columns properly. Don't skip the curry just because it's been on the menu for a century — that's the point.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Lenox MontparnasseBoutique hotel€€ · 3 minA 19th-century Haussmann block on rue Delambre, the street where Man Ray kept a studio and the Montparnasse drinkers kept rooms; reworked with a small bar off the lobby. Scores consistently high for comfort and location.
- Hôtel Raspail MontparnasseArt Deco boutique hotel€€ · 6 minAn Art Deco building at the Raspail–Montparnasse crossroads, in the quarter the painters actually worked — Modigliani, Man Ray, the Montparnos. Several upper rooms look toward the Montparnasse tower.
- Hôtel des Académies et des ArtsBoutique hotel€€ · 7 minTwenty rooms on the Montparnasse street where Modigliani and Foujita kept studios and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière still teaches life drawing. Sculpture and contemporary works through the rooms, a small courtyard.
- Hôtel AiglonArt Deco design hotel€€ · 8 minA 1930s building on Boulevard Raspail that takes its Art Deco seriously: a 2023 redo brought 46 bespoke bathroom mosaics and an entrance fresco by Mathilde Jonquière. Raspail métro across the road, Montparnasse cemetery a block south.
- Musée BourdelleFree sculptor's studio-museum€ · 10 minAntoine Bourdelle — Rodin's assistant, teacher to Giacometti — lived, taught and cast bronze on this Montparnasse plot until 1929, and the studios, apartment and two sculpture gardens survive almost untouched. The plaster hall lines up his monumental casts, 'Herakles the Archer' among them.
The district · 14e
Montparnasse & Denfert — The other Left BankThe Lost Generation's Montparnasse brasseries, the Catacombs, Parc Montsouris, and crêperies clustered by the station. Quietly residential, with a literary past it wears lightly.
Best for: Calm-seekers who still want the Left Bank and good train links.
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