Where to eat · Moroccan · €€ · 3e · Haut Marais
Le 404
A 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.
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The weekday lunch menu is €19; otherwise the duck tagine with apples and cinnamon. Weekends swap lunch for a Berber brunch. Reserve.
Getting there
- Arts et Métiers311210 m · 4 min walk
- Réaumur Sébastopol34280 m · 5 min walk
- Étienne Marcel4340 m · 6 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Secret Gardensstop 3 of 6 · 390 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.
- Marais & Bastillestop 6 of 6 · 460 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.
- Upper Maraisstop 1 of 6 · 470 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.
- Sweet Parisstop 3 of 6 · 600 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.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Gaîté LyriqueDigital-culture arts centre€ · 5 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.
- Passage du Grand-CerfCovered passage€ · 6 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)€€€ · 8 minA women-only Moroccan hammam near Montorgueil, sold as timed rituals — steam, black-soap gommage and rhassoul clay — by appointment rather than drop-in.
- Musée de la Chasse et de la NatureUnusual museum€€ · 9 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.
- Saint-Eustache — Keith Haring chapelChurch with modern artwork€ · 10 minThe vast Gothic-Renaissance church above Les Halles holds Keith Haring's last work — the 1990 bronze triptych 'The Life of Christ'. Its side chapel was restored and reopened to visitors on 25 June 2026, properly lit for the first time.
Where to stay near Le 404
- Hôtel National des Arts et MétiersRooftop-view boutique hotel€€ · 3 minA Raphael-Navot-designed Marais boutique with a seasonal panoramic rooftop — Beaubourg to Notre-Dame — and a botanical cocktail bar at street level.
- Hôtel Jules & JimBoutique hotel€€ · 5 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.
- Experimental MaraisDesign hotel€€€ · 6 minThe 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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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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