Where to eat · Japanese udon counter · € · 1er · Louvre & Les Halles
Sanukiya
Sanuki-style udon made with wheat flour from Kagawa, served thick and chewy at a counter where you watch the noodles go into the bowl. The queue down rue d'Argenteuil moves faster than it looks.
Get the cold bukkake udon or a hot bowl with shrimp tempura; arrive before the 12:30 rush or after 2pm.
Getting there
- Pyramides714130 m · 2 min walk
- Tuileries1270 m · 5 min walk
- Palais Royal - Musée Du Louvre17310 m · 6 min walk
Around the corner
Palais-Royal · 230 m away
The Palais-Royal is a former French royal palace located on Rue Saint-Honoré in the 1st arrondissement of Paris. The screened entrance court faces the Place du Palais-Royal, opposite the Louvre. Originally called the Palais-Cardinal, it was built for Cardinal Richelieu from about 1633 to 1639 by architect Jacques Lemercier. Richelieu bequeathed it to Louis XIII, before Louis XIV gave it to his younger brother, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. As the succeeding Dukes of Orléans made such extensive alterations over the years, almost nothing remains of Lemercier's original design.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Secret Gardensstop 2 of 6 · 230 m
Jardin du Palais-Royal
1633. The interior garden of the former royal palace, surrounded by 17th-century arcaded buildings. Quiet and almost monastic — the city's most underrated central garden. The black-and-white striped Buren columns at the south entrance (1986) are controversial but iconic.
Enter from the south through the Cour d'Honneur (Buren columns). Walk the perimeter under the arcades — the small shops are antique stamp dealers, vintage perfume merchants, and the city's best vintage tin-toy collector at no. 22 Galerie de Montpensier. The fountain in the centre and the rose garden at the north end are the picnic spots.
- Paris Undergroundstop 6 of 6 · 280 m
Pyramide inversée
Inverted glass pyramid in the Carrousel du Louvre underground mall, 1993. Designed by I. M. Pei as the visual counterpart to his big pyramid above ground. The tip almost touches a small stone pyramid below — the meeting point famous from The Da Vinci Code.
Free, no ticket, no museum visit needed — enter the Carrousel mall via 99 Rue de Rivoli or directly from Métro Palais Royal. Walk into the central rotunda; you'll see it. Best photographed at midday when daylight comes through the top.
- Sweet Parisstop 2 of 6 · 350 m
Angelina
226 Rue de Rivoli, opened 1903. Famous for two things: the Mont-Blanc (chestnut-cream meringue) and the chocolat l'africain — hot chocolate so thick a spoon stands up in it. Coco Chanel had a standing reservation; the gold-and-marble interior is original.
The line is for the salon de thé; for takeaway hot chocolate (in a small bottle, gloriously) walk through to the boutique counter at the back. Order a Mont-Blanc to share — the portion is enormous.
- Cocktail Barsstop 2 of 6 · 500 m
Bar Hemingway, Hôtel Ritz
15 Place Vendôme. Named for Hemingway, who claimed (probably fictionally) to have personally liberated the bar at the Ritz from German occupation in August 1944. Small, wood-panelled room with framed photographs and signed ephemera, presided over for 25 years by celebrity bartender Colin Field.
Tiny — about 25 seats. No reservations; arrive at 18:30 (opening) and queue. Drinks are €40+ but each is a performance. The Ritz Sidecar is the move; the Bloody Mary is the second. Walk through the Ritz lobby to find it — entrance off Rue Cambon, not Place Vendôme.
Within a few minutes' walk
- AkiJapanese okonomiyaki€ · 4 minAn Osaka specialist on the Japanese stretch of rue Sainte-Anne, where the okonomiyaki is griddled on a hot plate in front of you. The same family runs a bakery two doors down if the line is long.
- HigumaRamen€ · 5 minOne of the long-standing institutions of rue Sainte-Anne, working an open kitchen and a no-reservations queue. The lamen comes in a gentle chūka-soba broth, the pan-fried gyoza are the reliable add-on, and the bill is about half a typical Parisian sit-down.
- Passage ChoiseulCovered passage€ · 6 minAt 190 metres the longest covered passage in Paris, built 1826–27 and reopened in 2013 after restoration. Céline grew up above it and set part of 'Death on the Installment Plan' here. Art-supply shops, booksellers, ateliers, and the stage door of the Bouffes-Parisiens.
- Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporainContemporary-art foundation€€ · 7 minAfter forty years on boulevard Raspail the Cartier foundation reopened in October 2025 across from the Louvre, in a Haussmann block Jean Nouvel fitted with five mobile exhibition platforms that rise and sink through the floors on hydraulic rams.
- Librairie GalignaniHistoric bookshop€ · 7 minThe oldest English-language bookshop on the Continent, trading on rue de Rivoli since 1856 and run by six generations of the same family. Dark 1930s shelving holds around fifty thousand titles under the arcade; the fine-arts section is what regulars come for.
- Galerie VivienneCovered passage€ · 8 minThe grandest of the surviving 1820s arcades, built in 1823 between the Bourse and the Palais-Royal. A vaulted glass roof throws light onto floor mosaics laid by Italian craftsmen; the tenants run to rare-book dealers and a long-established tea room rather than chains.
Landmarks nearby
The district · 1er
Louvre & Les Halles — The centre of the centreThe geographic and royal heart: the Louvre, the Tuileries, the Palais-Royal arcades, and the glass belly of Les Halles. Grand and central, emptier of residents than it looks, and priced accordingly.
Best for: First-timers who want everything within a walk — and don't mind paying for the address.
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