Underground & cool · Rooftop bar · €€ · 11e · Oberkampf & Bastille
Le Perchoir Ménilmontant
The original Perchoir rooftop, on a former industrial building, with a 360° skyline that's best as the sun drops behind Sacré-Cœur.
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Come early — it fills fast — and check the rooftop's seasonal hours before heading over.
Getting there
- Ménilmontant2160 m · 3 min walk
- Rue Saint-Maur3210 m · 4 min walk
- Couronnes2420 m · 8 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le Salon MiyanisAlgerian / Kabyle couscous€ · 3 minA Kabyle kitchen on the Ménilmontant boulevard turning out couscous, tagines, chorba and grilled skewers at prices that read like a typo — the royal, with its three meats, lands under fifteen euros. Plain room, warm service, no pretense.
- Double DragonPan-Asian small plates€€ · 7 minThe Levha sisters' looser, cheaper counterpart to Le Servan, working pan-Asian flavours at small-plate prices and holding a Bib Gourmand for it. Begin with the bao au Comté and XO sauce, then a fried rice with real chilli behind it.
- Atelier des LumièresImmersive digital-art centre€€ · 8 minA 19th-century iron foundry where 140 projectors throw paintings across the walls and floor in roughly half-hour cycles, the programme rotating between Renaissance masters and modern names. A short, deliberately enveloping spectacle rather than a museum.
- Nonette Bánh MìVietnamese sandwich counter€ · 9 minKhanh-Ly Huynh, who won the French Masterchef, runs this banh mi counter with house-made charcuterie and bread from baker Frédéric Lalos, plus Southeast-Asian-leaning donuts worth ordering. The confit pork banh mi is the one to get.
- Le ServanBistronomie€€ · 9 minTatiana and Katia Levha run a corner room where French cooking picks up Filipino and Indonesian inflections without announcing them. The blood-sausage wontons and the raw sardines on brioche with smoked-chilli butter are the dishes people come back for.
- L'Homme BleuBerber / Moroccan€€ · 11 minA Berber kitchen that has held this address since 1980, a handful of tables and semolina rolled three times. The royal couscous and the lamb tagine with dried fruit are the dishes that keep the regulars; it opens for dinner and runs late.
Where to stay near Le Perchoir Ménilmontant
- Hôtel La Nouvelle République & HammamDesign hotel & hammam€€ · 5 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.
- The People Paris BellevilleDesign hostel€ · 11 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.
- Hôtel FabricBoutique hotel€€ · 14 minA textile workshop turned 33-room hotel off Oberkampf, where the conversion left the brick, iron columns and factory glazing in plain sight. A steam room, a small gym and an honesty bar, minutes from République and the rue Oberkampf bars.
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The district · 11e
Oberkampf & Bastille — The going-out districtNo monuments to speak of, which is the point: the 11th is where Paris eats and drinks at night — natural-wine bars, neo-bistros, and the Oberkampf and Rue de Lappe nightlife. Bastille and the Marché d'Aligre edge sit inside it.
Best for: Anyone whose trip is built around dinner and a drink afterward.
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