Underground & cool · Viewpoint · € · 20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant
Parc de Belleville
One of the highest parks in Paris, with a hilltop belvedere that opens across the rooftops to the Eiffel Tower — a locals' sunset spot above terraced gardens, with Belleville bars at the gate.
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Enter high on Rue Piat for the belvedere; come for sunset.
Getting there
- Pyrenées11250 m · 5 min walk
- Couronnes2430 m · 8 min walk
- Jourdain11510 m · 10 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le BaratinBistro & natural wine€€ · 4 minRaquel Carena's daily blackboard — offal, fish, sweet-sour edges — helped invent Paris bistronomy and still pulls chefs on their nights off. The natural-wine list runs deep.
- CombatCocktail bar€€ · 5 minA bright, women-led Belleville cocktail bar — inventive but unfussy drinks, windows that fold open over the sloping pavement in summer. A local's room, not a set-piece.
- Le JourdainNeo-bistro€€ · 6 minA tight, crowded neo-bistro between the Buttes-Chaumont and Jourdain, doing a market-driven plat at lunch and turning to small seafood plates and natural wine at night. The wine list is the rare one priced so the second bottle still feels reasonable.
- Lao SiamThai / Lao€€ · 6 minA Belleville institution since 1985, founded by a Thai-Lao family and still cooking from the long menu that made its name: green papaya with pickled crab, crisp rice squares in coconut-shrimp-pork sauce, whole fish steamed in banana leaf. The décor is plain; the kitchen is not.
- Le PacifiqueCantonese / dim sum€ · 8 minA Cantonese hold-out on rue de Belleville, open since 1983 and built for long tables, steamer baskets and rotisserie meats. The dim sum is the cheap pleasure — order several baskets and the bill stays low — and the kitchen runs past midnight.
- Le CadoretNeo-bistro & all-day caf退 · 8 minA Belleville corner café by day, a serious kitchen by night — revived in 2024–25 under chef Alice Neman, with a great-value chalkboard lunch.
Where to stay near Parc de Belleville
- The Loft Boutique HostelBoutique hostel€ · 3 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.
- The People Paris BellevilleDesign hostel€ · 9 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 La Nouvelle République & HammamDesign hotel & hammam€€ · 12 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.
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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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