WoinParis

Following the numerous requests and the global enthusiasm for my lists, here comes my favourite restaurants.

I took sometimes 2 per arrd. Again, totally subjective? And I tend to have problem spending less than 50 e/meal, inc wine.
There are some arrondissements wher I never ate actually...

Bar à Manger 1er Saint Michel : nice
Pramil vertbois, 6 3e Strasbourg : upper scale but reasonable in price
Elmer Notre dame de Nazareth, 30 3e : fabulous
Pain vin fromage Geoffroy l'Angevin, 3 4e : great cheese recipies
Estrapade Estrapade, 15 5e Panthéon : 'terroir' - don't eat the two days before
Pouic Pouic Lobineau 5e Odeon : very creative and very good
Cafe Bouillu Ecole médecine 6e Odeon/stMichel : nice brasserie
Charette Créole gilles Chaplain 6e Vavin : caribbean food - beware 'rhum arrangé'
P'Tit bougnat Courcelles, bd 118 8e : they have 'grouse' a few weeks a year - fantastic
Etoile Rungis, avenue Lorraine 1 Rungis : best meat ever
Ardoise Gourmande Belzunce, 12 10e Gare du Nord : superb profiterolles
Mamagoto petits hotels, 5 10e : trendy and yet good
Santa Carne Tournelles, 24 11e Bastille : argentinian meat
Biche au bois 45 av Ledru-Rollin 12e Gare de Lyon : fantastic wild meat (gibier) and côte rôtie !
Régalade Jean Moulin, Av 45 14e Montparnasse : superb
Far Niente (il) Paul Fort, 1 14e Porte Orléans : italian, good and nice people - ask for the wine !
Insoumise Auguste Chabriere 15e : terroir, resto de quartier
Akasaka nicolo, 7 16e passy : Japanes. I am sure. Owner are Japanese.
Gazette (la) Duret, 28 16e Argentine : upper scale and yet affordale
Flaubert Flaubert, 10 17e Courcelles : the low cost of maison Rostang, next door
Sacréee fleur Clignancourt 18e Château rouge : meat ! meat ! and good fries.
Atelier Ramey Ramey 18e Château rouge : inventive. Ask for the wine.
Bono Sano B (BSB) rue de la villette 19e Jourdain : super small. very nice. inexpensive

Bon appétit ! Don't forget tapwater is for fee, unlike wine.

nukesafe

Can't wait until September when we can try some of these! You do all of us a service Woin!

PilarC, how about your (different) favorites list? I once read there are over 14,000 restaurants in Paris. You have made a good start toward doing them all.

Christina

If Pilar ate in 400 restaurants, I'm surprised she has not eaten in Regalade, which is quite well-known and he now has several locations. It's been written up for years, at least the original which had a different chef (and that's been a couple decades by now, and perhaps has seen better days).

It's an interesting list, I haven't heard of most either but I tend to eat on the Left Bank as that's where I typically stay, but not St Germain. And I don't spend at lot nor like some of that cuisine, but it is Wo's list which I'm sure many will find useful. I think Cafe BOuillu is closed, though, a couple years ago. It was replaced by Aux Amis which I think is also perhaps closed now.
http://www.parisgourmand.com/restaur.../aux-amis.html

Kathie

Woin, I appreciate your list. Thanks!

PalenQ

How much should I tip at these type of restaurants?

WoinParis

;-)

PalenQ

Do zee waiterz speak Anglish - are there English menus?

nukesafe

The Waiter's name is Claude. He will tell you this, and come by frequently during your dinner to inquire, "How you guys doin'?".

Macross

Pilar is gone already? Nukesafe, she usually attacks Kerouac.

http://www.thebeast.fr/ Woin, did you make it here yet?

kerouac

My local newspaper for the 18th arrondissement published a list of 'good' restaurants with cheap meals.

For <b>10 euros</b> or less:

-- Les Délices de Dhan, 83 rue Ordener. Mauritian dishes, not many seats since most people buy takeaway. Main dish + pastry + drink for 8 euros.

-- Aloy Aloy, 61 rue des Trois Frères. Thai food with one of the best bo bun in Paris, very generous portions of pad thai. Less than 10 euros.

-- Yeno, 29 boulevard de Clichy. Franco-Korean street food. Main dish, soup and dessert for 9.50 euros. No MSG and all products direct from the Rungis wholesale market.

-- La Maison Thaï, rue rue de l'Evangile. This place is minuscule and only has about 6 seats, but I have actually eaten there since it is a block from my place. There is always a big line at noon for takeaway because it certainly has the best value in the area. 4.50 euros for two dishes plus rice. Spicy fish or pork salads, coconut fish soup. Nothing costs more than 4.50 euros and I can confirm that it is excellent. The only problem is that I never want to wait in line.

-- Délice de la Goutte, 40 rue de la Goutte d'Or. This place has no sign, just an address. North African food. For 6 euros, you have a choice of 5 dishes and a side vegetable. Veal feet, meatballs, couscous, grilled chicken livers...

The list of places where you can spend <b>15 euros</b> is longer:

-- Lomi, 3ter rue Marcadet. Tartes, giant salads and garnished <i>tartines</i>.
-- Brocéliande, 15 rue des Trois Frères. Crêperie. Meal for 12 euros.
-- Crep'uscule, 91 rue Lamarck. 100% organic crêpes with vegan options.
-- Chez Guichi Djerba Casher, 76 rue Myrha. Tunisian kosher restaurant, all in fluorescent lighting and white formica. Grilled meats and fries (or spaghetti or green beans) for 12 euros, giant salads, couscous, including seafood couscous.
-- Le Tout Monde, 4 rue Affre. Wine bar. Daily lunch formule for 15€ or full 3 course menu for 18€.
-- Les Novices, 123 rue Caulaincourt. Burgers and fusion dishes for 16 euros.
-- La Bricole, 52 rue Leibniz. Main dish 9.30 euros, formule at 12.50 and full menu at 15.60.
-- La Table de Philippe, 9 rue Boucry. Stuffed calamari, grilled pork in coconut curry, grilled salmon fillet, all for 12 euros. Vegetable dishes for 6 or 7 euros.
-- Les Dés Calés, 181 rue Legendre. Old fashioned French bistro but going as high as 24 euros for the full meal.
-- Mazurka, 5 rue André del Sarte. Polish specialities such as krakowski or bigos, not forgetting the borscht. Dishes from 12 to 15 euros.
-- Francis La Butte, 122 rue Caulaincourt. Traditional Parisian bistro, dishes from 12 ro 16 euros. Organic wines from 10 to 19 euros.
-- L'Eden, 6 rue de l'Olive. Excellent varied couscous for 14 euros. Tajines from 15 to 17 euros.
-- Akitaya, 10 rue Francoeur. Small Japanese restaurant that still greets customers with an oshibori. Soup, salad, rice and 3 different items for 14.20€. Vegetarian menus starting at 9.80€.
-- Thu-Thu, 51 bis rue Hermel. Vietnamese food that has received congratulations from the mayor of Paris and which has been written up in the Figaroscope. Apparently, members of the Asian community in the 13th arrondissement travel here specially for certain items. Dishes and specialities from 7 to 17 euros. Lunch menu for 11.50€.

Other places mentioned: Colchide (Georgian food), L'Afghani (Afghan), La Portena (Argentinian), Bharati Villas (Srilankan), Colline d'Asie (Vietnamese and Cambodian), L'Assiette (French food with Ukrainian specialities as well), Le Canaille 18 (inventive French with products from the covered market next door), Le Myrha (organic food).

So nobody goes hungry in the 18th arrondissement, even when they don't have a lot of money.

Kathie

Thanks so much, kerouac!

I notice Letacia is a "new" poster. Aka "Pilar," I expect.

StCirq

It could be, Kathie, though if it is she hasn't had time to post a profile picture yet.

Thanks for all these reccos. I love your list, kerouac. In all honestly, by the time we get to Paris these days, the last thing we want is more French food. Our ethnic pickings are mighty slim here.

AJPeabody

I look forward to investigating these lists for our upcoming trip. Thanks go to W and K.

ceeast1

Oh my goodness, getting so excited!

Askar01

<i>#I tend to have problem spending less than 50 e/meal#</i>

Impressive..

WoinParis

'#I tend to have problem spending less than 50 e/meal#

Impressive..'

Apéritif, entrée, plat principal, vin, vin, digeo.
You can eat for much less.

Anyway... I should have added circumvolutions saying that apoligize spending money on food, that you can do much cheaper with tap water, no wine, no digestive. You can also do much cheaper going to a McDo and will obvisouly appreciate the French cuisine.

You can do even cheaper by going to a Monop and buy stuff theer.
Or go and eat a Bobun, like at the Chamroeun Crimée in the 19th.

Btw Kerouac, l'Afgahni is very good and there is a splendid resto de quartier l'assiette rue de Labat, dans le 18e bien entendu. Les patrons au fourneau, un couple, des produits du marché, et ils ont une déclinaison de betteraves à tomber le cul par terre. Le prix est très démocratique.

WoinParis

Ah, tu connaissais l'Assiette. Je me demandais d'où venait leur accent. Ukrainien donc.

Tu as aussi été chez Illios ? pas mal du tout, patron sympa, au fourneau aussi. Un peu plus cher mais très abordable.

Enfin, il manque dans ta liste le petit bleu, juste au pied des escaliers menant au Sacré Coeur, où l'on mange ma foi un couscous fort respectable, même si le patron est à mon avis plutôt malpoli que bourru (j'a hésité, étant dans un bon jour j'ai pensé bourru).

Bonne soirée !

kerouac

Le "<i>18ème du Mois</i>" has to keep some of the addresses in stock for future issues. If they published all of the "cheap and good" places in just one edition, they would need many more pages than the 24 to which they are limited.

AJPeabody

Googling the restos. Pouic Pouic is listed as permanently closed.

StuDudley

Here is something I posted a few years back

Paris Restaurants

We were in Paris for 2 weeks in October 2015, and decided to dine at several "Historic" brasseries. We used the book "Brasseries of Paris" as our guide to finding these places.
We've dined at several of them in the past couple of years also. In addition, we dined "locally" at some "old favorite" non-brasseries (we stayed in the western 7th at the corner of Rue St Dominique and Ave de la Bourdonnais) plus a few restaurants that looked interesting based on descriptions in the Michelin Red Guide and in France Today magazine. Most of these places are within walking distance of our apt, or a short bus ride away for dinner (we don't use the metro). We dined at 3 brasseries that required multiple buses to get there - so we had lunch at the brasserie instead. I think this visit was about our 16th & 17th week in Paris. We visit France for about 2 months almost every year.

Below is how we "judged" them - based on food choice and quality (according to "our" tastes), and atmosphere. Ratings are on a scale of 1 to 20. HB designates that the restaurant is an Historic Brasserie. * indicates that it is a Michelin 1 star restaurant.

Restaurant............................... Food ............Atmosphere
Bistro Balhara ...................................10..........9
le Violon d'Ingres* (many visits).......14........13
Fables de la Fontaine* (many visits)..12........11
Brasserie Gallopin HB........................14.......14
Les Climates* ....................................16........17
Mollard HB (2 visits)..........................11.......17
Grande Cafe HB.................................10.......15
Montparnasse 1900 HB.......................7........14
Julien HB (2 visits).............................10.......16
Citrus Etoile........................................12.. .....14
Fermette Marbeuf HB (2 visits).........14.......16

From last year
Le Dome HB (2 visits)........................15.......14
Train Bleu HB (many visits)...............14.......20


Stu Dudley