Paris is a food city

Paris and food - the one is synonymous with the other. Nearly everywhere you go in the city you see a seemingly endless parade of businesses connected to the world of food. It's not just the many open air markets scattered around Paris but a long, very long list of Michelin-starred restaurants down to the small mom-and-pop bistros that still cling to so many corners of this city. 

Take our neighborhood for example. 

from our apartment you can see rue de Cotte (left) and rue d'Aligre (right)

Running alongside our apartment building is rue de Cotte, which covers barely three blocks from rue Charenton to rue Faubourg de Saint-Antoine. It might not look impressive, but just along one of those blocks you can find Lebanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Argentinian, Italian and a Michel-starred restaurant all cheek-by-jowl with one another.

looking up rue de Cotte from Place d'Aligre

okay not food joints but still

Thai

Cape Verdean and Portuguese

Vietnamese

casual French

Argentinian

traditional something or other

one Michelin star nouvelle French

Dô and Coco, Vietnamese

Vietnamese

But wait there's more!

Running parallel with rue de Cotte is rue d'Aligre,  home to the eponymous market in the mornings and a plethora of food businesses:

butcher shop

fishmonger

spices etc.

wines

French casual

another fishmonger

Algerian food

bakery and pastry

Algerian pastry shop

health food and then some

another cheese shop

and another wine shop

and of course a shop that sells chocolates and ice cream

traditional French food

the name says it all

Abd lastly is the indoor Marche Beauvau, which sits between  rue de Cotte and rue d'Aligre. Open six days a week like the outdoor market, unlike the outdoor market it is open all day long until 8:00pm.