Streets with positive food fengshui
While other corners of Paris are well-known food deserts, some streets are blessed with a rich concentration of good eateries. I elect:
rue des Petites Ecuries/rue Richer, with:
Öslem, El Papi Chulo, Vivant, L'Orient d'Or, An Li, La Cuisine de chez moi, Bob de Tunis, Kiku, l'Office.
The bonus at the end of the street (on the rue Richer end) is the great chocholate and candy store A la Mère de Famille, which is making its own ice cream these days !
Dear fellow Mouths, what are some of the other great food fengshui pockets of Paris?
rue des Petites Ecuries/rue Richer, with:
Öslem, El Papi Chulo, Vivant, L'Orient d'Or, An Li, La Cuisine de chez moi, Bob de Tunis, Kiku, l'Office.
The bonus at the end of the street (on the rue Richer end) is the great chocholate and candy store A la Mère de Famille, which is making its own ice cream these days !
Dear fellow Mouths, what are some of the other great food fengshui pockets of Paris?
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I must admit you've hit very hard with your first reference. It is not easy to find streets with such great fengshui as this one. Though I would add that the whole neighborhood (roughly, North of the Grands Boulevards between rue Montmartre and boulevard de Strasbourg) has exceptional food fengshui: rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, from its South to its North end, is amazing.
I think the rue de Bretagne, from the Filles-du-Calvaire to the Mairie du 3e, also has good food fengshui, with many good food stores and the Marché des Enfants-Rouges, Le Progrès, Mmmozza, and Candelaria.
I think the rue de Bretagne, from the Filles-du-Calvaire to the Mairie du 3e, also has good food fengshui, with many good food stores and the Marché des Enfants-Rouges, Le Progrès, Mmmozza, and Candelaria.
Great topic and nominations, Nancy. I'm particularly titillated by the reference to La Cuisine de Chez Moi. It doesn't Google. More specifically, how does one reserve.........:)
If you google the name with the addres 14 rue Richer, you will find a lot more references. 01.44.83.95.51. Closed Sunday lunch.
Oh la la.
The Rue Paul Bert is lacking fengshui?
With the Bistrot Paul Bert, L'Ecailler du Bistrot, La Cocotte, Unico, Crus et Découvertes, etc.?
The Rue Paul Bert is lacking fengshui?
With the Bistrot Paul Bert, L'Ecailler du Bistrot, La Cocotte, Unico, Crus et Découvertes, etc.?
Where did anyone write that the rue Paul-Bert was lacking fengshui? It is one of the most inexplicably food-fengshui-loaded streets in Paris.
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My point exactly; I guess sarcasm doesn't work here.
Indeed the rue Paul-Bert and the Faubourg Saint-Denis (not just the street but the whole area) immediately come to mind. Do we see anything else?
I believe the market streets do not count (rue Cler, rue Mouffetard, rue de Lévis-Poncelet), no more than do the remaining traces of disappeared markets (the shopping area around the Saint-Paul church where the former marché Saint-Paul used to be). In their case it is not really food fengshui, they are supposed to be there. I would perhaps name the rue Saint-Charles in the XVe, and there's a portion of the rue Lecourbe (near the Cambronne intersection) that has really good food fengshui. For food shopping, not so much for restaurants.
Other ideas?
I believe the market streets do not count (rue Cler, rue Mouffetard, rue de Lévis-Poncelet), no more than do the remaining traces of disappeared markets (the shopping area around the Saint-Paul church where the former marché Saint-Paul used to be). In their case it is not really food fengshui, they are supposed to be there. I would perhaps name the rue Saint-Charles in the XVe, and there's a portion of the rue Lecourbe (near the Cambronne intersection) that has really good food fengshui. For food shopping, not so much for restaurants.
Other ideas?
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I agree that market streets should not count, although rue Faubourg St Denis is sort of a market street. It is sort of so many things though...
I also think that Saturne-Frenchie may be setting up some promising fengshui, but it is still in the setup stage…
I also think that Saturne-Frenchie may be setting up some promising fengshui, but it is still in the setup stage…
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Despite being quiet, the rue de la Banque has pretty good food fengshui. Not a very long street and there's Le Bougainville, Liza and Saturne... But as you say it is still in the setup stage.
The Japanese-Korean (with a bit of Chinese and Vietamese added) food fengshui of the rue Sainte-Anne, rue de Richelieu and rue Saint-Augustin is also worth reporting.
The Japanese-Korean (with a bit of Chinese and Vietamese added) food fengshui of the rue Sainte-Anne, rue de Richelieu and rue Saint-Augustin is also worth reporting.
Rue du Fbg St Denis and environs.
Where's the worst though? I nominate rue du Chateaudun.
Where's the worst though? I nominate rue du Chateaudun.
As Khalil Gibran wrote about a completely different matter, "I can speak about Good, but I cannot speak about Evil". I cannot think of a street with particularly bad food fengshui, it can change in a pinch. That could be a separate thread though.
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Indeed, to elect the worst food fengshui street is like electing the worst country&western lyrics.
Rue Lauriston always struck me as special food fengshui. Rue de Longchamp does pretty OK too. Rue Malar, of course, and Saint-Dominique.
Seriously, why do we always neglect the posh neighborhoods?
Seriously, why do we always neglect the posh neighborhoods?
why do we always neglect the posh neighborhoods?
La lutte des classes ?
Because we hardly ever have a reason to go there? That's not necessarily a choice, there's good food shopping on rue des Belles-Feuilles and rue de Tocqueville, too.
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