Where to eat · Wine bar with food · € · 3e · Haut Marais
Le Barav
A corner wine bar with some 250 references you can drink on site or carry out from the attached cave, set against boards of charcuterie and cheese. Lunch is a short list of tartines, salads and a homemade plat.
Come at midday for the €10.50 plat; evenings run on boards with a bottle off the shelf. Closed Sunday; Saturday dinner only.
Getting there
- Temple3230 m · 4 min walk
- République358911280 m · 5 min walk
- Filles Du Calvaire8330 m · 6 min walk
Around the corner
Walks that pass nearby
- Cocktail Barsstop 6 of 6 · 60 m
Bisou
15 Boulevard du Temple, opened 2018 by ex-Mary Celeste bartender Nicolas Munoz. No menu — you tell the bartender what spirits and flavours you like, and they make you a drink. The deliberate inverse of the cocktail-book ritual: every drink is bespoke.
No menu means you have to talk. Try "something with mezcal, smoky, not too sweet" or "surprise me with a gin drink" — both will be taken seriously. The bar is small, around 20 seats; arrive early or expect to wait. End of the cocktail tour, or the start of a longer night.
- Markets of Parisstop 1 of 6 · 270 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 · 270 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.
- Upper Maraisstop 2 of 6 · 270 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. Equal parts produce and prepared-food stalls. The market exists today because in 1912 the city wanted to demolish it; locals successfully petitioned the heritage office and it was saved.
Closed Mondays. Lunch counters until 14:30; the Moroccan tagine and Italian deli are the standouts. For a takeaway pastry, look for the Lebanese counter in the south-east corner.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Ofr.Bookshop & gallery€ · 3 minAlexandre and Marie Thumerelle's bookshop in the Haut-Marais, the supply line for independent fashion, photography, design and art magazines from Seoul to São Paulo. A small gallery behind it runs rolling exhibitions and launches.
- Little Red DoorCocktail bar€€€ · 3 minA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.
- BisouBespoke cocktail bar€€ · 4 minNo drinks menu at all: tell the bartender your mood and they build a bespoke cocktail from seasonal produce. A second bar, Bisou Canal, sits on Quai de Jemmapes in the 10th.
- 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.
- CandelariaSpeakeasy bar€€ · 5 minOrder a taco at the counter of a narrow taquería, then push through the unmarked white door at the back into the room that opened the city's speakeasy era in 2011. The cocktails stay precise and agave-led.
- Le Traiteur Marocain (Enfants Rouges)Covered-market stall€ · 5 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.
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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