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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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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