Where to stay · Social hostel · € · 10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord
St Christopher's Inn Paris - Gare du Nord
Two minutes from the Eurostar platforms, with Belushi's bar and a live-music pub directly below — convenient for an early train, less so for an early night. Privacy curtains on the bunks and two bars are the trade-off.
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Show your room key at Belushi's for the guest discount; book a top-floor private room if downstairs noise is a concern.
Getting there
- Gare du NordRER E170 m · 3 min walk
- Gare du Nord45RER BRER D190 m · 4 min walk
- Château Landon7300 m · 6 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Marché couvert Saint-QuentinCovered market€ · 6 minParis's largest covered market, a glass-and-cast-iron hall wedged between the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l'Est, with some thirty-five traders. The eating is unfussy and cheap: Moroccan tagines, Lebanese pita, Greek pastries, oysters with a glass of Muscadet.
- Hôtel EstéBoutique hotel & pool€€ · 7 minA four-star between Gare de l'Est and Gare du Nord built around a nine-metre indoor pool, with hammam and sauna attached — an unusual amount of water for a hotel this size.
- Chez CasimirMarket neo-bistro€€ · 8 minA market-driven neo-bistro behind Gare du Nord, named Bistrot of the Year at the 2026 Pudlo awards — pot-au-feu, Paris-Brest.
- Krishna BhavanSouth Indian (vegetarian)€ · 8 minStrictly vegetarian Tamil cooking on the Sri Lankan-Indian stretch of La Chapelle: paper-thin dosas the length of your forearm, thalis served in steel, chai in metal cups. Loud, fast, and priced so low it embarrasses the rest of the city.
- L'Avant Comptoir du GrouinStanding tapas & wine€€ · 8 minA standing tapas-and-wine counter near Gare du Nord — some fifty small plates and a natural-leaning list (it replaced La Pointe du Grouin in early 2026).
- Théâtre des Bouffes du NordTheatre (Peter Brook's house)€€ · 10 minPeter Brook took over this gutted 1876 hall in 1974 and left the scorched, peeling pink-red walls exactly as he found them; it has staged theatre, opera and chamber music in the round ever since, with no proscenium grandeur.
The district · 10e
Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord — Canal ParisThe locks and iron footbridges of the Canal Saint-Martin, the South Asian Passage Brady, the Faubourg Saint-Denis food strip, and two big stations. Young, mixed, and where a lot of the good cheap eating is.
Best for: Twenty-somethings and food-first travellers; lively rather than pretty.
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