Du Pain et des Idées Cafe
Historic Monument Artisan Bread Morning Queue
Christophe Vasseur's 1875-listed bakery on rue Yves Toudic, pain des amis, escargots, no shortcuts.
Canal & Casual-craft
Canal Saint-Martin
Canal locks + neo-bistro wave east, Le Servan, Le Galopin, Du Pain et des Idées.
The 10e runs from Gare du Nord and Gare de l'Est down to the Canal Saint-Martin, the Récollets locks, the iron footbridges Verlaine wrote into the canon, and the cafés-on-canal-side strip from Quai de Valmy to Quai de Jemmapes. Le Servan (Tatiana and Katia Levha, 2014) and Le Galopin opened around here a decade ago and pulled the neo-bistro tide east; Du Pain et des Idées on rue Yves Toudic remains the bakery the traveller plans the visit around. The traveller uses the 10e for the casual dinner with bottle on the towpath edge, and the post-Eurostar lunch that doesn't push back into Saint-Honoré formality.
Highlights
Canal Saint-Martin locks Le Servan / Le Galopin orbit Du Pain et des Idées bakery Walking distance from Gare du Nord
13 places
3 Categories
Cafe
4 places
Holybelly Cafe
Specialty Coffee All Day Breakfast No Reservations
$$
The Australian-style breakfast counter that taught Paris to queue for pancakes, and serve them well.
Yann Couvreur, Parmentier Cafe
Chef Led Signature Millefeuille Salon De The
Yann Couvreur's first patisserie since May 2016, the original room with the fox-mark logo
Liberté, Vinaigriers Cafe
Patisserie Boulangerie Hybrid 19th Century Interior Marble Counter
Mickaël Benichou's 2013 patisserie-boulangerie, painted-ceiling 19th-century shop, marble counter heaped with bread
Restaurant
5 places
Le Verre Volé Restaurant
Natural Wine Institution Small Room
Canal Saint-Martin's natural-wine institution, 400 references, plates from the kitchen behind the bottles.
52 Faubourg Saint-Denis Restaurant
No Reservations All Day Asian Leaning
Charles Compagnon's open-plan neo-bistro, Asian-inflected cooking, no reservations, all-day kitchen.
Le Petit Cambodge Restaurant
Canal Side Low Key No Fuss
Canal Saint-Martin Cambodian institution, bo bun, summer rolls, banana-tapioca dessert, packed every night.
Bouillon Julien Restaurant
Art Nouveau Historic Monument 1906
1906 Art Nouveau bouillon, Mucha-style nymphs, listed monument, Édith Piaf's table.
El Nopal Restaurant
Mexican Street Food Casual
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Mexican street-food institution on rue Eugène Varlin, Canal Saint-Martin's handmade-tortilla bench since 2011.
Bar
4 places
Early June Bar
Natural Wine Guest Chef Small Room
$$
Naturophile cave-à-manger by the canal, visiting chefs, no reservations, minimum-intervention list.
Le Syndicat Bar
Cocktail Bar French Spirits Only Hip Hop Soundtrack
$$
French-spirits-only cocktail bar in a graffiti-clad doorway, World's 50 Best Bars regular.
Combat Bar
Cocktail Bar Female Led Natural Wine
$$
Female-led cocktail bar with bi-fold windows on the Belleville-Canal axis, zero pretension, real depth.
Lavomatic Bar
Speakeasy Cocktail Hidden Entrance
$$
République speakeasy hidden behind a working laundromat, push the right washing-machine door, climb the staircase.
