Where to eat · Cambodian canteen · € · 10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord
Le Petit Cambodge
A Cambodian canteen by the Canal Saint-Martin that built its name on one bowl: the bo bun.
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No reservations; bo bun bœuf sauté from ~€9.50. Expect an evening queue.
Getting there
- Goncourt11290 m · 5 min walk
- Jacques Bonsergent5510 m · 10 min walk
- République358911550 m · 10 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Canal Saint-Martinstop 5 of 6 · 50 m
Quai de Valmy cafés
Between Rue Bichat and Rue Beaurepaire — the canal's café stretch. Chez Prune (no. 36) was the first to open in 1995 and started the canal's gentrification. Le Comptoir Général (no. 80, behind a small alley) is a cabinet of African-curio decor and one of the city's least describable bars.
Sit on the canal-side terrace of any café. Sundays the quay is closed to traffic; locals bring picnics and sit on the iron mooring posts along the water. The bookshop Artazart on the canal opposite no. 80 has the city's best art-book selection.
- Hidden Parisstop 6 of 6 · 560 m
The smallest house in Paris
39 Rue du Château d'Eau (10th): one room wide, one window per floor, three floors total. Built around 1880 to fill a property dispute — the family on either side refused to sell, so the inheriting daughter built up vertically in the alley between them.
Walk along Rue du Château d'Eau between Place de la République and Boulevard de Strasbourg. The house is between nos. 37 and 41. It's a private home — don't ring the bell.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le CambodgeCambodian€€ · 3 minA family-run Cambodian room near the canal with bo bun rated among the city's best and a Phnom Penh soup to match.
- Le Verre VoléNatural-wine cave à manger€€ · 7 minThe original Paris cave à manger on Rue de Lancry — four hundred natural wines, an open kitchen, a chalkboard.
- Canal Saint-Martin towpathWalk€ · 10 minA Napoleon-era canal of 1825 climbing through nine locks and arched iron footbridges, where you can stand on a passerelle and watch boats rise and fall between basins. Tree-lined cobbled quais run either side before the water vanishes underground.
- Point ÉphémèreCanal-side music & arts centre€ · 10 minA former materials depot on the Canal Saint-Martin run since 2004 as a concert hall, studios and residency space, with a terrace straight onto the water. Amplified music most nights, plus dance, talks and temporary shows.
- LavomaticSpeakeasy bar€€ · 11 minA cocktail bar reached by pressing a button on a fake washing machine inside a working-looking laundromat; upstairs, pop-coloured poufs and swing seats.
Where to stay near Le Petit Cambodge
- Le Citizen HotelCanal-view design hotel€€ · 6 minA twelve-room hotel set directly on the Canal Saint-Martin, where the water-facing rooms watch the locks and the plane trees. Small and pared back, taken for the setting more than the square footage.
- Edgar Suites – Jules FerryServiced apartments€€ · 9 minEleven serviced apartments on the boulevard that edges the Canal Saint-Martin, each with a full kitchen and its own layout, with hotel-style cleaning and check-in but no lobby theatre — an apartment you can book for two nights.
- Hôtel Ginette à la FolieBoutique hotel€€ · 12 minA four-star between République and Oberkampf whose rooftop is planted with two fig trees. Rooms are individually decorated, with a spa that can be booked out privately, within a short walk of the canal.
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The district · 10e
Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord — Canal ParisThe locks and iron footbridges of the Canal Saint-Martin, the South Asian Passage Brady, the Faubourg Saint-Denis food strip, and two big stations. Young, mixed, and where a lot of the good cheap eating is.
Best for: Twenty-somethings and food-first travellers; lively rather than pretty.
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