Where to eat · Neo-bistro · €€ · 20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant
Le Jourdain
A tight, crowded neo-bistro between the Buttes-Chaumont and Jourdain, doing a market-driven plat at lunch and turning to small seafood plates and natural wine at night. The wine list is the rare one priced so the second bottle still feels reasonable.
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Lunch is the value sitting; for dinner the staff suggest two small plates a head. Reserve — the room is tiny.
Getting there
- Jourdain11330 m · 6 min walk
- Pyrenées11340 m · 6 min walk
- Place des Fêtes7b11590 m · 11 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Parc de BellevilleViewpoint€ · 6 minOne of the highest parks in Paris, with a hilltop belvedere that opens across the rooftops to the Eiffel Tower — a locals' sunset spot above terraced gardens, with Belleville bars at the gate.
- La BellevilloiseArts & music venue€€ · 9 minLodged in an 1877 workers' cooperative, La Bellevilloise stacks a concert hall, a basement club, an olive-tree-lined restaurant and a rooftop across four floors, and programs all of them hard — Sunday jazz brunches, weeknight café-concerts, DJ nights.
- Le BaratinBistro & natural wine€€ · 9 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.
- CombatCocktail bar€€ · 10 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.
Where to stay near Le Jourdain
- The Loft Boutique HostelBoutique hostel€ · 9 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 BridgetBoutique hotel€€ · 11 minBehind a traditional façade on rue des Pyrénées, 32 rooms furnished from the flea markets — candy-coloured benches, salvaged pieces — in upper Ménilmontant near Père-Lachaise. Two métro lines within a few minutes.
- The People Paris BellevilleDesign hostel€ · 15 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.
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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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