Where to eat · Thai · €€ · 13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles
Sukhothaï
A small carved-wood dining room on the Butte-aux-Cailles side of the 13th, turning out steady Thai cooking — green curry, fried fish, the occasional Chinese detour — at prices that belie its Michelin mention.
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Reserve at weekends; the dining room is small and packs out in the evenings.
Getting there
- Place d'Italie - Italie 2567150 m · 3 min walk
- Corvisart6270 m · 5 min walk
- Tolbiac7490 m · 9 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Chez Gladines (Butte-aux-Cailles)Basque / Southwest French€ · 6 minVast Basque salads piled with potato, gizzards and Cantal, and hearty Southwest plates for big appetites, in the village streets of Butte-aux-Cailles.
- Piscine de la Butte aux CaillesArt-deco pool€ · 6 minA 1924 red-brick Art-Deco municipal pool and listed monument — a vaulted indoor basin fed by an artesian well, plus heated open-air pools — in the village-like Butte-aux-Cailles.
- Les Tanneurs de la ButteFrench bistro€ · 7 minA bar-bistro on the cobbled spine of the Butte-aux-Cailles, dealing in the unembarrassed classics: tartare and fries, steak, saucisse with aligot. The room runs on regulars rather than passing trade.
- Manufacture des Gobelins workshop tourWorkshop tour€ · 10 minA guided tour into the working royal tapestry manufactory, where weavers still knot Gobelins tapestries by hand on upright looms much as they did under Louis XIV.
Where to stay near Sukhothaï
- Résidence À la Butte aux CaillesAparthotel€ · 6 minFourteen rebuilt studios with kitchenettes on rue des Cinq Diamants, up in the Butte-aux-Cailles where the houses stop at two storeys and the lamps still follow the old gas plan. A restaurant sits directly downstairs.
- ibis Styles Paris Place d'ItalieDesign budget hotel€ · 10 minThe chain's design arm let a street-art brief loose here: frescoes of Paris landmarks on every floor, Corvisart and its viaduct-arch métro three minutes down the hill. Breakfast is built into the rate.
- Hôtel HenrietteBudget-boutique hotel€€ · 12 minThirty-two individually styled mid-century rooms around a plant-filled courtyard, on a calm street near Rue Mouffetard. Photogenic without trying hard.
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The district · 13e
Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles — Asia and street artParis's Chinatown of tower blocks and excellent Southeast-Asian kitchens, the village-like Butte-aux-Cailles with its Art-Deco pool, and a riverfront of street-art murals and barge clubs.
Best for: Eaters chasing pho and bo bun, and anyone bored of the centre.
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