Where to eat · Classic bistro / game · €€ · 11e · Oberkampf & Bastille
Le Repaire de Cartouche
Rodolphe Paquin has cooked here since 1997 and the room still runs on terrines, game and the kind of pâté en croûte that takes a day to build. The €20 lunch is the way in; in autumn the chalkboard turns to hare and venison.
Order the pâté en croûte and whatever game is listed in season; lunch is where the price stays honest.
Getting there
- Saint-Sébastien Froissart820 m · 1 min walk
- Filles Du Calvaire8240 m · 5 min walk
- Richard Lenoir5350 m · 7 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Cocktail Barsstop 5 of 6 · 290 m
Little Red Door
60 Rue Charlot, opened 2012 — one of the first wave of Paris speakeasies, now one of the world's most-awarded cocktail bars (top 10 globally most years). Drinks are conceptual and themed annually; the menu is a picture-book that changes every year.
There's no actual little red door — the entrance is the regular wooden door at no. 60. Reservations recommended weekends. Order from the printed picture-book; the bartenders will explain each drink. Cash or card.
- Upper Maraisstop 3 of 6 · 400 m
Musée Picasso
Hôtel Salé, 5 Rue de Thorigny — a 1659 mansion built by a salt-tax collector (hence the name). Has held the national Picasso collection since 1985: 5,000 works donated by the artist's heirs in lieu of inheritance taxes. The renovated 17th-century interiors compete with the paintings.
Free first Sunday of each month. The fourth-floor attic galleries (sculpture and ceramics) are the least crowded — most visitors burn out on the second floor. Allow at least 2 hours.
- Markets of Parisstop 1 of 6 · 440 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 · 440 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.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Hôtel Suzie BlueBoutique hotel€€ · 4 minThirty-one rooms behind a ground-floor coffee bar, done by Dorothée Delaye in wood, fabric and handmade lamps; the bathrooms run small.
- The Cambridge Public HouseCocktail bar / pub€€€ · 5 minAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.
- CandelariaSpeakeasy bar€€ · 6 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.
- BisouBespoke cocktail bar€€ · 7 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.
- Little Red DoorCocktail bar€€€ · 8 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.
- Café des MuséesTraditional bistro€€ · 8 minA 1924 corner bistro with mosaic floor, dark woodwork and an open kitchen you can watch from the room. Its bœuf bourguignon was named best in Paris by Le Figaro and the kitchen has coasted on that reputation, more or less deservedly, since.
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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