Where to stay · Boutique hostel · € · 20e · Belleville & Ménilmontant
The Loft Boutique Hostel
A 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.
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Parc de Belleville is a block uphill and has the cheapest panoramic view of the skyline in Paris — go at dusk.
Getting there
- Pyrenées11270 m · 5 min walk
- Couronnes2380 m · 7 min walk
- Belleville211440 m · 8 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le BaratinBistro & natural wine€€ · 2 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€€ · 3 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.
- Lao SiamThai / Lao€€ · 3 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.
- Parc de BellevilleViewpoint€ · 3 minOne 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.
- Le PacifiqueCantonese / dim sum€ · 4 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.
- La Cantine ChinoiseChinese (Wenzhou)€ · 5 minTwo decades of Wenzhou cooking at the bottom of Belleville, run by Chef Lin and his son: hand-folded ravioli, beef noodle soup, baozi from the bakery counter. The plates land around six or seven euros, which is most of the appeal.
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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