ISO non-French "ethnic" restaurants in Paris...Thai, Chinese, Turkish, Greek.

We easily stumbled across both Italian and Greek restaurants.

What part of the city are you staying in?

by the Gare du Nord

but if the restaurant is good, we will gladly travel to any section

We've been many times to a Senegalese restaurant called Paris Dakar. Having googled it, I can only find a place called Le Nouveau Paris Dakar. I think it's the same place in a bigger space. Exquisite food. You won't be sorry.

This is an interesting thread. Many people enjoy travelling in France because of the french food. Are you allergic to french food or just looking for a better flavor (than french)?

I'm going to try that Senegalese restaurant on my next trip! Thanks for mentioning it. Happy Travels!

A third possibility over 'allergic' or 'better than' is "different".

Mavromatis is a very good upscale Greek restaurant in the 6th by the Censier-Daubenton metro stop. It has a more casual sister nearby called Delice de Aphrodite.
Chez Vong in the first in the Les Halles area is an excellent Chinese restaurant.

I love Paris, but Frech is far from my favorite food.

If you're near the Gare du Nord, then you're not far from the Passage Brady and its collection of Indian restaurants. No idea how good they are, though.

We enjoyed Chez Marianne in the Marais for lunch. Wonderful fallafel and good eggplant and fennel dishes. It was packed with locals but worth waiting for a table.

If you are going to the Cluny Museum or are in the Latin Quarter, you should try The Rose of Sommerard
on the Rue Sommerard which is right off of Rue St. Jacques/Blvd St. Germain.

The food is a combo of Chinese and Thai. Delicious and very inexpensive. It get's Thin's Stamp of Approval.

Thin

Great...Keep the places coming. I'm going to print this list. I've never been much into French food although I've been going to Paris for 30-plus years. Plus, I have 3 major food allergies that are hard to work around in French cooking. But, even before the allergies, I wanted to have variety. Happy Travels!

<i>We enjoyed Chez Marianne in the Marais for lunch.</i>

Are you implying that kosher food cannot be considered to be French food in the 3rd largest Jewish city in the world?

On Rue du Pot-de-Fer (intersection with Rue Mouffetard) we had a good Maroccan diner. The street has many restaurants, some Italian, some Greek, etc.

Kerouac: Paris #7...This is the most current analysis of worldwide Jewish populations:

Analysis by City (top)

Metropolitan areas with the largest Jewish populations:


Rank Metro area Country Jewish Population Share of World’s Jews Cumulative %

1 Tel Aviv Israel 2,560,000 19.3 19.3

2 New York U.S. 1,970,000 14.9 34.2

3 Haifa Israel 655,000 4.9 39.1

4 Los Angeles U.S. 621,000 4.7 43.8

5 Jerusalem Israel 570,000 4.3 48.1

6 Southeast Florida U.S. 514,000 3.9 52.0

7 Paris France 310,000 2.3 54.3

8 Philadelphia U.S. 276,000 2.1 56.4

9 Chicago U.S. 261,000 2.0 58.4

10 Boston U.S. 227,000 1.7 60.1

11 San Francisco U.S. 210,000 1.6 61.7

12 London U.K. 195,000 1.5 63.1

13 Buenos Aires Argentina 175,000 1.3 64.5

14 Toronto Canada 175,000 1.3 65.8

15 Washington U.S. 165,000 1.2 67.0

16 Be’er Sheva Israel 165,000 1.2 68.3

17 Moscow Russia 108,000 0.8 69.1

18 Baltimore U.S. 95,000 0.7 69.8

19 Montreal Canada 95,000 0.7 70.5

20 Detroit U.S. 94,000 0.7 71.2

Whatever you call it, Marianne's offers excellent whatever food....

luv:

Excellent Tunisian, Moroccan, Lebanese, Turkish restaurants pop up all over the city.

For cous-cous fans, the Lebanese restaurant on the street where Mitterand lived, (Rue Bievre on the left bank, near the Seine)&quot;La Soumann&quot;...once rated highly by Conde Nast and we felt that it was well deserved...the prime dish was a Cous-cous chicken in a bowl of ultra-savory vegetable soup.

Yes, you can survive very nicely wthout French food in Paris.

stu t.

Unless Chez Marianne is serving kosher coq au vin, your post is irrelevant, Kerouac. They serve middle eastern food, not French food.

Joe Allen - www.joeallenrestaurant.com/Paris_Info.html

Buffalo Grill, many locations, www.buffalo-grill.fr

Blue Bayou Restaurant, 111 Rue Saint Maur, Paris 75011

La Taverne Suisse, 48, Rue Ponthieu, Paris 75008

Don't forget about these &quot;ethnic&quot; restaurants in Paris:

Joe Allen - www.joeallenrestaurant.com/Paris_Info.html

Buffalo Grill, many locations, www.buffalo-grill.fr

Blue Bayou Restaurant, 111 Rue Saint Maur, Paris 75011

La Taverne Suisse, 48, Rue Ponthieu, Paris 75008