Does anyone know if Rue Mouffetard (la mouffe) is still a popular student area with numerous student style restaurants with kebabs and such? Open on Monday night? We used to go en masse with students from the ecole technique before going dancing for the evening...

many thanks!

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I don't know if it is "open on Monday night", but, it is most definitely still popular and quite busy ....almost all the time.

Yes it's still as tacky as ever with its cheap bars and kebab and crepe stalls.

I prefer Rue Montorgueil.

The area around Metro Odeon is more popular. Crepes, kebabs, films...
No idea about the dancing unless you went to someone's apartment.

I had an apt on that street once, I like the area. I don't know about kebab places, never looked for one so don't know. I don't know about dancing, never saw anything like that, but maybe you meant you went dancing elsewhere.

Yes, it's a popular student area because there is a branch of the Sorbonne right near there (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, Centre Censier) and some student housing. So there are students around in the cafes, etc., that's all I know.

PS the slang is "la Mouf" for the neighborhood, not Mouffe, it's been called that since the 19th century at least when it was the quartier of a lot of ragpickers and lower income. Hemingway lived there, describes it in A Moveable Feast.

There is street dancing there on Sundays.....mostly great swing...it is right in the square in front of Saint Medard.....

Mostly Greek restaurants now where meals can be had on a student budget.

Even though the shine has gone off rue Oberkampf a bit, you will find a lot more student mobs there than on Mouffetard.

It's spelled "la Mouf'".

Hep cats from 1960 probably still say 'la Mouf' -- nobody else does, nor do they say 'Boul Mich' in this century.

@kerouac, indeed

I was wondering if this was an attempt to recapture someone's lost youth, or something.
Paris has changed a whole lot since you might have been in school.

It does still have a vibrant street market during the day?

Yes my French girlfriend long ago took me there for the 'atmosphere' and cheap eateries.

I wouldn't call it "vibrant"...

There are two serious cheese shops, a couple of butchers and patisseries/boulangeries, and one fish shop. Couple of chocolate shops and epiceries. Couple of small restaurants and cafes.

The main reason people go there is to dance on Sunday and drink a lot of cheap wine.

Forgot the couple of fruit/veg stands.
The rest is all little shops selling shoes, clothes and jewelry.

The church of Saint Medard is much more interesting.

The main reason people go there is to dance on Sunday>

dancing in the streets -kindly elaborate - sounds neat!

I was there in February, staying in a nearby hotel. I liked the cheeses, wine shops and delis - there was an excellent Spanish deli/wine shop and a greek shop selling rotisary chicken. If I had an apartment in the area I would definatly shop there.

On tha Saturday night, my niece and I watched the France-Ireland rugby match in a small (tiny) Irish pub - more a sheebeen actually. Afterwards, we wandered down a laneway full of bars selling beer flooded with young French swilling beer. I realised I was just too damn old for that environment, and we ended up in a nice wine bar beside the hotel

Many thanks for the nice answers, the snobs can drop dead... (I'm really sick of those who feel a need to be cutting or snobby on here -- clearly you have no real life or you wouldn't be trolling for the opportunity to cut someone here. Be kind or shut up)

So the snobs are the ones who say that rue Mouffetard is not really worth a visit? There was no point in asking if you were sure already that you wanted to return there and love it.

"Be kind or shut up" implies that you have an aversion to honesty.

Maybe check out Rue Cler instead?

I'm the first to call out Fodorgarchs for being rude to folks who ask questions - that said you asked for opinions and that's what you got. I don't see any responses that did not answer your question nor in my mind were really rude - a little cute by your question asked for opinions -I see no cutting remarks. Maybe you could enlighten me as to why you thought that?

kerouac says it all. I only find your comment being in the rude category - and again I regularly call out Fodorgarchs for being so. Sincerely.

Pictures speak a thousand words -still looks inviting to me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pari...w=1920&bih=950