We are considering a hotel in the Marais area. My husband is not as worried about the cost of the hotel as he is the food nearby. So .....which arrondisement abounds with good food. I don't mean the Michelin rated restaurants. Just good bistro food. If I can't get the hotel here , would the 6th arrondisement be as good.

Wow..I need direction.

loisco, you would really have to work hard to find a place in Paris where you couldn't conveniently enjoy good food in various price ranges, from white linen restaurants to brasseries, boulangeries and everything in between. Le Marais is no exception (and if you want to splurge a little one night, check out Ma Bourgoyne on Place des Vosges or Le Train Bleu in the Gare de Lyon, which may not be all that far from you.) The 6th is probably even better, with food choices out the wazoo.

We stayed in the Marais last year, and we never had to look far for good bistro-type food when we wanted to have dinner in "our neighborhood". We ate well and rather inexpensively.

I have had good meals in the Marais at Baracane
Cour du Fond
Cafe Beauborg
and probably other places that don't jump to mind. However, all three of those were very good.

Is it easier to find places to eat in the 6th? Yes.
Is it hard to find good meals in the Marais? No.

So, I don't think this has been that much help. I'm sorry. But now that I think if it, if he really wants "abounds with good food" I guess I would pick the 6th...

Oh, I feel like I've just made things worse!

I am driving myself crazy with this...ok if the 6 th abounds with food, let me ask you, if we stay in the Marais can we walk to the 6th or is it a few metro stops away......? I think tho he wants to stoll out of the hotel and find a restaurant..

you are so helpful all of you.

I am driving myself crazy with this...ok if the 6 th abounds with food, let me ask you, if we stay in the Marais can we walk to the 6th or is it a few metro stops away......? I think tho he wants to stoll out of the hotel and find a restaurant easily.
you are so helpful all of you.

Hi lois,

> I think tho he wants to stroll out of the hotel and find a restaurant easily.<

What's the address of your hotel?

It's not as if you will be in Madison, GA where the choices range from McD's to KFC.

PS

If you enter your hotel's address at www.viamichelin.com and click on "restaurants", you will find a goodly number.

The new bargain dining experience for us is Auberge du Jarente on rue Jarente in the Marais. Had a wonderful cassoulet and a magret. Across the street is another well recommended restaurant whose name I can't recall--maybe l'Oupervail. These are both near the pl. St. Catherine.
Yes, you can walk to the 6th. There is also excellent bus service.

Le Pamphlet is an excellent restaurant in the Marais. I highly recommend it. Ma Bourgogne is also good.

Anthony

I can recommend Le Pamphlet in the Marais. Also, a tiny restaurant, Le Vieux Comptoir, behind the Place de Vosges serves French food with a Latin touch at very reasonable prices. It is quite informal and welcoming. Depending on where you are staying and how much you like to walk, the 5th and 6th are well within walking distance. To us, part of the charm of Paris is finding new places to eat all over the city. Try to search this board for good and reasonable restaurants in Paris using the search function.

We spent a week in the Marais and never had to look hard for a good eatery nearby. One of the favorites is Le Trumilou, at 84 Quai de Hotel-De-Ville - simple but very well prepared food and good attentive service, at bargain prices. It does not a particularly romantic athmosphere and beware if you're bothered by smoke, but if it's the good country fare at excellent prices you're after, it will certainly fit the bill.

loisco:

I think your husband's priorities are turned around. There is fabulous food everywhere in Paris. It's probably much more important that your hotel be situated in a neighborhood you're interested in than whether or not there will be good food nearby - there will ALWAYS be good food nearby in Paris; moreover, Paris is compact, and it's never much of a hassle to take the métro or a bus to another part of the city.
Specific recommendations, to add to the others, include Le Petit Marché
9 rue de Béarn, and La Guirlande de Julie, right on the Place des vosges.

<i>I am driving myself crazy with this</i>

Not usually a very good sign.

Finding <i>fabulous</i> bistro food in Paris (presumably on a budget) is NOT so easy to do. The process of collecting choices and narrowing down the selection takes time and research. There's no one neighborhood anywhere that has it all.

Of course, everything depends on everything else and, in this case, how you define good food is a matter of taste. Fortunately, Paris is a city known for its great food. I'm sure you'll eat well in spite of being bald (or gray) by the time you get there. Good luck.

Right on the same street as the Caron de Beaumarchais hotel is Le Colimacon. We enjoyed it. We also think well of Le Trumilou, quite nearby, agreeing with another poster that the food there is simple and well done. My husband thinks the rabbit with mustard sauce there is outstanding.

Just across the bridge there is the Ile de ST. Louis with a host of restaurants.

You are all wonderful. Re the question as to my eating tastes, I am a fairly good cook. Have written a few cookbooks (bread machine) and definitely we live to eat.
We are up there in age and when you say do we like to walk .. absolutely..the walking doesn't bother us as much as sightseeing all day and then having to take metros to far away places. But you all seem to say the same thing...we can walk to eating places...so now it's back to the hotel search. Many many thanks.