Author: paris-bistro

The Censier is a genuine café of the Latin Quarter with a beautiful terrace. On the long rue Monge, its terrace attracts students during the sunny days. But this bistro is especially renowned for its cheap price among the residents of the district. The dish of the day is 10€ , and with 2.50€ more, you’ll have the dessert. Home made cooking and season by a talented Chef. Its interior reminds the paintings of Mondrian with their colored square patterns. They give to the place a cheerful atmosphere. In its open-plan kitchen, you can see the Chef. This native from…

On the superb “Place des Vosges”, Ma Bourgogne is one of a most famous wine’s bistro of Paris. You just can’t miss it, especially when wandering along the arcades of the well known Place. There’s always been a café there, right there in the Place des Vosges,ever since the end of 18th century. Ma Bourgogne happens to be one of theses archetypal « Bistros parisiens », heart and soul of a whole neighborhood.  There, a special ambiance and a mix between country flavoured cooking and more adventurous dishes, attracts both tourists and the old regular customers of « Le Marais ».…

Nearby the Rivoli Street, stands a bistro which resists to the present time trend of uniformity. A la Tete d’Or (the golden head), is one of the historic bistros located in the heart of Paris, which have came across the years without change. A la Tete d’Or, was one of these bistros where members of the corporations working each night in « les Halles de Paris » gathered at dawn. Here, scores of butchers, merchants of vegetables or flowers, leaned on theirs elbows at the bar, eating, drinking, laughing with another corporation : prostitutes. Despite all the area transformations, A…

Brasserie “Les Grandes Marches” is right by the Opéra Bastille and has been through a seriously befitting update since the Joulie family took over in the summer of 2012. The lounge spirit is out and the hallmark composed class and lighting that define great brasseries is back. The Art Deco influence is undeniable and the spirit intertwines with the close Opera and its “grandes marches” (great steps) that gave this establishment its name. And it implements good ideas, as the glass booth where the oyster seller dispenses his wares both indoors and outdoors the brasserie.This eye-catching feature has become one…

Au Cochon de Lait (the Sucking-Pig) is a vestige from the golden era of Parisian slaughter-houses of la Villette when the neighborhood bistros bore the names of livestock. There was le Mouton Blanc (the White Sheep) , le Bélier d’Argent (the Silver Ram) , le Cochon d’Or (the Gold Pig) , each specializing in a type of meat. «Here, our customers were the slaughterers. They had their lockers in the back room to put away their blood stained aprons. They brought their meat and only paid one franc and fifty cents for the roasting. The service was handled in a…

“En Attendant l’Or” (waiting for gold) a name like slogan of Californian gold digger imagined by the boss, Patrick Laur…A pun that plays on the phonetics of his name. In french, Laur sounds like l’or (the Gold). The boss, Patrick Laur, is native from southern Aveyron (south Auvergne). Like many others of its fellows, he arrived in Paris without a penny. That was in 1986. Since then he hasn’t stop working in bistrots always experimenting news ideas. This café fits the definition of a cheap and cheerful modern Parisian bistro. With its frendly service and its appealing menu, En Attendant…

The only one of its kind left, Au Bœuf Couronné is the last trace of the Villette’s formerly booming meat industry. And while you won’t find any more butchers in full length aprons, quality cuts of good meat are still king here. The menu has nearly a dozen different cuts and sizes of beef to please meat lovers; they can choose between the pavé des mandataires steak (300 g), a piece of Charolais beef (500 g) or a rib roast (1.2 kg). These princely pieces are all from the finest sources and served with delicious fluffy fried potatoes that are…

Since noon, this charming bistro begins to be filled with a great variety of people: craftsmen, employees, artists, amateurs of good gastronomy. We are “Au Bon Coin”, a typical bistro of Paris not far from Montmartre. The pretty geographical map pinned next to the bar indicates the auvergnat origins of the family Bras who runs the place. Arrived in the thirties, they have created Au Bon Coin. Today, Jean-Louis Bras (third generation) is the boss. And his mother, Jeanine, continues to help him the half of the year (in fall and in winter). For the happiness of the neighborhood and the…

The history of Paris is partly written at the counters and in the back rooms of its cafés and cabarets. From the medieval taverns to the elegant cafés of the Lumières (without forgetting the guinguettes of the old regime or the revolutionary clubs like the Procope), the place of cafés in Parisian society hasn’t stopped evolving over time. But would Paris be Paris without its cafés? Degas, Manet, Monet and Renoir, all these impressionists met in the popular cafés of Montmartre. Would Saint Germain des Prés and Montparnasse be as gloriously well known and have the ability to reunite so…

It is said to be the oldest café of Paris. It was in 1684 at 13 rue de l’Ancienne Comédie (formerly rue des Fossés Saint Germain) when Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli opened the Café Procope. This is the oldest café in Paris, and when you enter this grand café and marvel its large chandeliers and mahogany and pine furniture you can feel the atmosphere of three centuries of history. The Café Procope was the birthplace of all of the intellectual upheavals that shook Paris. Great men made, and still make (along with great women), Procope a magical place. Procopio,…