Where to eat · Algerian / Kabyle couscous · € · 20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant
Le Salon Miyanis
A 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.
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The chicken couscous slips under ten euros for the cheapest honest plate in the quarter. Open through the day, every day.
Getting there
- Ménilmontant250 m · 1 min walk
- Rue Saint-Maur3390 m · 7 min walk
- Couronnes2410 m · 8 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le Perchoir MénilmontantRooftop bar€€ · 3 minThe original Perchoir rooftop, on a former industrial building, with a 360° skyline that's best as the sun drops behind Sacré-Cœur.
- Double DragonPan-Asian small plates€€ · 10 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€€ · 11 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€ · 11 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.
Where to stay near Le Salon Miyanis
- Hôtel La Nouvelle République & HammamDesign hotel & hammam€€ · 6 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.
- The Loft Boutique HostelBoutique hostel€ · 13 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.
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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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