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An Insider’s Guide to the Best of Paris’ 13th Arrondissement

By: Author Sophie Nadeau

Posted on Last updated: 28th February 2023

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Last Updated on 28th February 2023 by Sophie Nadeau

A fun blend of old meets new, the 13th arrondissement is an often appreciated district of the city which lies on the rive gauche (left bank- south) of the river Seine. Here’s your ultimate guide to the best things to do in the 13th arrondissement.

The lost River Bièvre

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One of the most important things to note about the 13e is its rich history, particularly that pertaining to the lost Bièvre River. It was this waterway that flowed from its source in the Yvelines right up to Paris and through the 5th and 13th arrondissements.

At this time, the 13th arrondissement was not considered a part of Paris proper (due to its location outside of the wall of Philip Augustus) and so it was not privy to the taxes of Paris. This fact, coupled with the river, gave rise to several industries in the area.

For example, from the 1300s, many tanners and dyers set up shop along the banks of the Bièvre on account of the fact that flowing water was vital to their industries. It was also in this area that the Gobelins factory was founded.

Gobelins is important in French history as they dyed rich tapestries for the French Royal Family. Other industries to make use of the River Bièvre included weavers, shoemakers, and launderers.

Unfortunately, the industrialisation of the area led to the overpollution of the river, and so during the 19th-century, the river was covered up and now flows through the Paris sewer system.

Today, there is no real way to follow in the steps of the River Bièvre, safe for a few bronze plaques embedded in the pavement. Places such as Cité Florale are now constructed on the dried up banks of where the river once flowed.

Best things to do in the 13th arrondissement in Paris

Paris is home to a number of secret villages that were once communities in their own right but have since become absorbed into the fabric of Paris itself. One of my favourite is Cité Florale ; a teeny tiny greenery filled area nestled away in the 13e arrondissement of the city…

The micro arrondissement quite literally lives up to its name of ‘Cité Florale’. After all, the area is simply a small city of flowers, bushes, and greenery. Vines, wisteria and ivy trail off the side of the houses.

Yet another micro-arrondissement that’s worth checking out in the 13th is Butte aux Cailles. Highlights of Butte aux Cailles   (translated into English as ‘Quails Hill’)  include plenty of Art Nouveau architecture, countless cobbled lanes, and lots of street art, notably many works by local artist, Miss. Tic.

The Gobelins family were wealthy tapestry manufacturers during the middle ages, and today a popular métro station (metro line 7) is even named after this illustrious family. And located in the 13e arrondissement of Paris, down a little winding lane, you’ll find their former mansion residence, Château de la Reine Blanche .

During the summer months, free tours of the grounds take place on a regular basis. The tours are also held on heritage days throughout September, though if you’re visiting during any other time of the year the château is well worth a look from the outside. 

One of the more unusual little villages in Paris is unfortunately typically closed to the public but can still be admired via its unique exterior. Petite Alsace is located at 10, rue Daviel and is so-called thanks to the fact that its 1912 constructed timber-framed houses are reminiscent of those found in Eastern France

Just across the street from Petite Alsace, visitors will soon stumble upon Villa Daviel, a delightful cobbled impasse that’s open to the public and is characterised by its abundance of greenery.

Much like many other villages of Paris , the road is home to two storey brick houses that differ from the typical Haussmannian architecture that visitors expect to see in Paris. Much like Petite Alsace, the road was opened in 1912.

While wandering around the 13th arrondissement you’ll spy plenty of skyscrapers and modern blocks of flats, Temple Antoiniste (located at 34 Rue Vergniaud) is an unusual building which resembles a small white church and is located in the very heart of the 13th arrondissement.

The place of worship was actually constructed for the religious movement of Antoinism, which is known as the Culte Antoiniste in French. The movement was founded in 1910 by Louis-Joseph Antoine and beliefs of those who follow the religion include a blend of elements of Catholicism, reincarnation, and healing. 

French brocantes are world-famous thanks to their charm and the fact that heading to them feels something akin to a treasure hunt. After all, you never know what you’ll stumble upon next!

Well, Pourquoi Pas? is literally translated into ‘Why Not?’ in English and is an old warehouse turned gallery filled with an eclectic wealth of objects and antique from all over the world. The store is located just across the street from the Temple Antoiniste and is open from 1 PM to 7 PM on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

One of the more unusual hidden gems of the 13e is actually not very easily spied from the roadside. For, hidden behind a fairly tall hedge, and now a part of the Hôpital Broca AP-HP (hospital) private gardens, there lie the remains of the Couvent des Cordelières.

The convent was created at the best of the Marguerite de Provence, a royal, at the end of the 13th-century. At this time, the 13th arrondissement would not have been a part of Paris proper and the convent owned 8 acres of land. In 1796 the land was sold and by 1834, the convent had been transformed into the hospital.

Those in search of one of the most unusual bridges in Paris would be well served by heading to Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir, which is a pedestrian footbridge which crosses the River Seine. The bridge was constructed between 2004 and 2006 and links the 12th and 13th arrondissements.

One of the best things to do in the 13th arrondissement is to stroll around and look at all of the street art. From murals which cover the entire façade of a block of flats to Invader mosaics, there’s no shortage of unique, interesting, and beautiful works of art to discover.

One of the best parts about visiting Paris during the spring is the sheer number of beautiful cherry blossom trees everywhere. And one of the lesser-known spots for enjoying cherry blossoms in Paris is in the 13th arrondissement. Simply head to mail de Bièvre during the end of March/ beginning of April

If you’ve spent any time in Paris during the past few years, then you’ll have seen that the phenomenon of cafés placing giant teddy bears in their terraces has all but taken over the city.

Well, interestingly enough, this phenomenon actually began in the 13th arrondissement. The trend actually began in late 2018 when the  ‘nounours des Gobelins’ (teddy bears of Gobelins) first popped up in the less-touristed area of the 13th district of Paris, before being adopted by other establishments across the French capital.

The 13th arrondissement is not the most popular place to stay in the city (that award probably goes to Montmartre or Le Marais) but it does make a good base for someone who wants to avoid the hustle and bustle of the city centre and who wants to stay in a quieter, more residential neighbourhood. Here are some of the best places to stay in the 13e based on web-reviews and location:

Budget: This low-cost hostel is a stone’s throw away from the Galerie des Gobelins museum and is also pretty close to  Place d’Italie metro station. There are dorm rooms available as well as private rooms for an extra fee. Some rooms have balconies. Check prices and availability here.

Mid-range: This no-fuss three-star hotel is situated close to the metro and has highlights such as free Wi-Fi, air conditioning, and accepts pets at an extra charge. Check prices and availability here.

Luxury: For the crème de la crème of a stay in the 13th arrondissement, you need to look no further than this four-star hotel, which lies alongside the River Seine and boasts amenities such as a pool, conditioning, and free Wi-Fi. Check prices and availability here.

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thanks for this page....stayed at hote sint charles and saw some streets / houses mentioned here - nice pics!

Was in paris this week

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Thank you- glad you had a nice time in Paris!

Towering Gallery Full of Art to Be Demolished : “La Tour Paris 13”

The numbers are astounding; 105 artists, 9 floors, 36 apartments, 30,000 visitors .

That is how much time Street Art enthusiast Spencer Elzey had to himself inside the largest gallery of Street Artists and graffiti artists ever assembled specifically to transform a building for a public show. As he looked out a window to see the snaking lines of Parisians and tourists restlessly waiting to get in, he couldn’t believe his luck to be able to walk through the exhibit by himself and get off some clear shots before the throng hit.

El Seed. La Tour Paris 13.  Exterior of the tower. (photo © Spencer Elzey)

“The La Tour Paris 13 experience was something that I’ll never forget,” Elzey recounts as he thinks of himself nearly running from apartment to apartment with camera in hand, each room a new discovery, many of them inspiring awe.

“I was on an adrenaline rush while I was inside since I only had an hour by myself before it opened to the public. It wasn’t until later in the morning when I looked back at all of my pictures that I was able to fully understand exactly how much art I just witnessed,” he says.

Kan. La Tour Paris 13. Come in. (photo © Spencer Elzey)

Mehdi Ben Cheikh from Galerie Itinerrance , who curated the project La Tour Paris 13 gave permission to Elzey to get these shots for BSA before the crowds arrived and now he was snapping as many as possible.

Over the course of the year artists have devised specific paintings, sculptures, and installations inside the housing tower knowing that it would be exhibited for a month before being demolished. “The number of artists and the amount of space dedicated to this one exhibit is something that I don’t think will ever again be replicated,” he says.

a1ONE. Detail. La Tour Paris 13.  (photo © Spencer Elzey)

While touring former living rooms, bathrooms, and kitchens Elzey quickly discovered that aerosol and markers were not the only materials used by this global pool of street/graffiti/urban artists who came from far places like Brazil, Iran, US, Tunisia, and even Saudi Arabia in addition to many European countries.

Some artists had staged new perspectives and environments by combining sculptural elements that married into their wall pieces, others like C215 cut into the floorboards to create a relief, still others worked in and around the decaying, partially destroyed infrastructure to create venues that slid into the fantasies of subconscious. “It was a free-for-all in a sense that once inside the apartment the artist had free reign to transform it however they wanted,” he says.

“What isn’t apparent in the pictures is how dark a lot of the rooms were. There were at least three rooms that were essentially dark with the exception of a little black light, while others were dimly lit by a solo lamp or fluorescent bulb. Sometimes you had to walk through holes in the walls to access further rooms.”

Seth. Detail. La Tour Paris 13.  (photo © Spencer Elzey)

In his images here you can see the variety of styles and influences that the artists brought to the game, each accepting that it was a one-time-only installation. Maybe this group wasn’t so hard to convince, since the very nature of art on the streets is ephemeral.

“Street Art on the street has an expiration date, but the exact amount of time in which it will stay up isn’t known,” says Elzey, “It can either be covered up by graffiti or another wheat-paste, it can be removed by the building owner, or it can just wither away from being exposed to the elements.”

La Tour Paris 13 brings to mind the multitude of urban explorers who regularly trek into abandoned and neglected places all over the world and leave their mark, activating previously moribund spaces with art, but no one has ever launched a show like this with such genuine quality or with this scope.

Uriginal. Detail. La Tour Paris 13.  (photo © Spencer Elzey)

“The closest thing that I can compare it to is 5 Pointz ,” Elzey says of the grouping of buildings in New Yorks’ Long Island City that provided what was perhaps the original group show venue for urban art from the 1990s until yesterday.  In an ironic mirroring of events, 5 Pointz and its multitude of external paintings underwent “the buff” the night before last after running an every-changing show for about three decades.

The 5 Pointz factory buildings themselves are also slated for demolition and will make way for new condos. “We all knew that its days were extremely numbered,” he says sadly of what had become a New York cultural heritage icon to some and a holy place for graffiti writers and Street Artists and fans from around the world.

Tellas. Detail. La Tour Paris 13.  (photo © Spencer Elzey)

The true impact from the La Tour Paris 13 project and 5 Pointz may happen in the mind and heart of the artist and the art fan; perhaps the beauty of this exercise, however short lived, is that the public is being encouraged to re-imagine old buildings for new uses, to consider what else we can do with private and public space.

When that conversation takes place we often realize how the limits of creativity are determined in no small part by imagination.

Sambre. Detail. La Tour Paris 13.  (photo © Spencer Elzey)

While we keep tracking the routes and machinations of this first global people’s art movement that has evolved into  Street Art, we fully expect that we will continue to be surprised and inspired by the creative spirit and by artists.

For Spencer, this Tour was a lot more personal. “Having experienced something like this on such an immense scale and with a definitive end date made me feel like I was part of something special.”

Stew. Detail. La Tour Paris 13.  (photo © Spencer Elzey)

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Visit La Tour Paris 13 site for a full set of photographs, details and a full experience of the project.

This article is also published on The Huffington Post.

Artists participating include: 108 ( Italy) – 2mil (Brazil) – Add Fuel ( Portugal) – AGL ( France ) – Lacurci Agostino (Italy) – Alexone ( France ) – A1one (Iran) – Amin ( France ) – Aous (Saudi Arabia) – awer (Italy) – Azooz (Saudi Arabia) – Belem (Portugal) – BOM.K ( France ) – Btoy (Spain) – C215 ( France ) – Celeste Java ( France ) – Cope2 (USA) – Corleone (Portugal ) – Dabro (Tunisia) – Dado (Italy) – Dan23 ( France ) – David Walker (UK) – Eime (Portugal) – eL Seed ( Tunisia) – Ethos (Brazil) – Etnik (Italy) – Fenx ( France ) – Flip (Brazil) – Gael ( France ) – Gilbert ( France ) – Guy Denning (UK) – Herbert Baglione (Brazil) – Hogre (Italy) – Hopnn (Italy) – Indie 184 (USA) – Inti Ansa ( France ) – Inti Castro (Chile) – Jaz (Argentina) – JB Rock ( Italy) – Jimmy C ( Australia) – Samina Joao (Portugal) – Jonone (USA) – Joys (Italy) – Julien Colombier ( France ) – Kan ( France ) – Katre ( France ) – Kruella (Portugal) – Legz ( France ) – Lek ( France ) – Liliwenn ( France ) – Loyola (Brazil) – Ludo ( France ) – Mrs. Sanbor ( France ) – March (Portugal) – Marko93 ( France ) , Mario Belem (Portugal) – Maryam (Saudi Arabia) – Mateo Garcia Leon ( France ) – Maz (Saudi Arabia) – moneyless (Italy) – Mosko ( France ) – Mp5 (Italy) – Myra ( France ) – Nano (Chile) – Nebay ( France ) – Nemi Uhu ( France ) – Nilko ( France ) – Orticanoodles (Italy) – PANTONIO (Portugal) – Paulo Arraiano (Portugal) – Peeta (Italy) – Philippe Baudelocque ( France ) – Rapto (Brazil) – Rea 1 ( France ) – Rodolphe Cintorino ( France ) – Roti ( France ) – Sambre ( France ) – Sean Hart ( France ) – Sebastien Preschoux ( France ) – Senso (Italy) – Seth ( France ) – Shaka ( France ) – Shoof (Tunisia) – Shuck2 ( France ) – Sowat ( France ) – Spazm ( France ) – Speto (Brazil) – Stew ( France ) – Stinkfish (Mexico) – Sumo (Luxembourg) – Tellas (Italy) – Tinho (Brazil) – Tore ( France ) -Uno ( France ) – Uriginal (Spain) – Vexta (Australia) – Vhils (Portugal) – / Maismenos (Portugal).

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Towering Gallery Full Of Art to Be Demolished: 'La Tour Paris 13'

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The numbers are astounding: 105 artists, 9 floors, 36 apartments, 30,000 visitors.

That is how much time street art enthusiast Spencer Elzey had to himself inside the largest gallery of street artists and graffiti artists ever assembled specifically to transform a building for a public show. As he looked out a window to see the snaking lines of Parisians and tourists restlessly waiting to get in, he couldn't believe his luck to be able to walk through the exhibit by himself and get off some clear shots before the throng hit.

"The 'La Tour Paris 13' experience was something that I'll never forget," Elzey recounts as he thinks of himself nearly running from apartment to apartment with camera in hand, each room a new discovery, many of them inspiring awe.

"I was on an adrenaline rush while I was inside since I only had an hour by myself before it opened to the public. It wasn't until later in the morning when I looked back at all of my pictures that I was able to fully understand exactly how much art I just witnessed," he says.

Mehdi Ben Cheikh from Galerie Itinerrance, who curated the project "La Tour Paris 13," gave permission to Elzey to get these shots for BSA before the crowds arrived and now he was snapping as many as possible.

Over the course of the year artists have devised specific paintings, sculptures, and installations inside the housing tower knowing that it would be exhibited for a month before the building was demolished. "The number of artists and the amount of space dedicated to this one exhibit is something that I don't think will ever again be replicated," he says.

While touring former living rooms, bathrooms, and kitchens, Elzey quickly discovered that aerosol and markers were not the only materials used by this global pool of street/graffiti/urban artists who came from far places like Brazil, Iran, US, Tunisia, and even Saudi Arabia in addition to many European countries.

Some artists had staged new perspectives and environments by combining sculptural elements that married into their wall pieces, others like C215 cut into the floorboards to create a relief, others worked in and around the decaying, partially destroyed infrastructure to create venues that slid into the fantasies of subconscious. "It was a free-for-all in a sense that once inside the apartment the artist had free reign to transform it however they wanted," he says.

"What isn't apparent in the pictures is how dark a lot of the rooms were. There were at least three rooms that were essentially dark with the exception of a little black light, while others were dimly lit by a solo lamp or fluorescent bulb. Sometimes you had to walk through holes in the walls to access further rooms."

In his images here you can see the variety of styles and influences that the artists brought to the game, each accepting that it was a one-time-only installation. Maybe this group wasn't so hard to convince, since the very nature of art on the streets is ephemeral.

"Art on the street has an expiration date, but the exact amount of time in which it will stay up isn't known," says Elzey, "It can either be covered up by graffiti or another wheat paste, it can be removed by the building owner, or it can just wither away from being exposed to the elements."

"La Tour Paris 13" brings to mind the multitude of urban explorers who regularly trek into abandoned and neglected places all over the world and leave their mark, activating previously moribund spaces with art, but no one has ever launched a show like this with such genuine quality or with this scope.

"The closest thing that I can compare it to is 5 Pointz ," Elzey says of the grouping of buildings in New Yorks' Long Island City that provided what was perhaps the original group show venue for urban art from the 1990s until yesterday. In an ironic mirroring of events, 5 Pointz and its multitude of external paintings underwent "the buff" the night before last after running an ever-changing show for about three decades.

The 5 Pointz factory buildings themselves are also slated for demolition and will make way for new condos. "We all knew that its days were extremely numbered," he says sadly of what had become a New York cultural heritage icon to some and a holy place for graffiti writers and street artists and fans from around the world.

The true impact from the "La Tour Paris 13" project and 5 Pointz may happen in the mind and heart of the artist and the art fan. Perhaps the beauty of this exercise, however short lived, is that the public is being encouraged to reimagine old buildings for new uses, to consider what else we can do with private and public space.

When that conversation takes place we often realize how the limits of creativity are determined in no small part by imagination.

While we keep tracking the routes and machinations of this first global people's art movement that has evolved into street art, we fully expect that we will continue to be surprised and inspired by the creative spirit and by artists.

For Spencer, this tour was a lot more personal. "Having experienced something like this on such an immense scale and with a definitive end date made me feel like I was part of something special."

Visit the "La Tour Paris 13" site for a full set of photographs, details and a full experience of the project.

Artists participating include: 108 ( Italy) - 2mil (Brazil) - Add Fuel ( Portugal) - AGL ( France ) - Lacurci Agostino (Italy) - Alexone ( France ) - A1one (Iran) - Amin ( France ) - Aous (Saudi Arabia) - awer (Italy) - Azooz (Saudi Arabia) - Belem (Portugal) - BOM.K ( France ) - Btoy (Spain) - C215 ( France ) - Celeste Java ( France ) - Cope2 (USA) - Corleone (Portugal ) - Dabro (Tunisia) - Dado (Italy) - Dan23 ( France ) - David Walker (UK) - Eime (Portugal) - eL Seed ( Tunisia) - Ethos (Brazil) - Etnik (Italy) - Fenx ( France ) - Flip (Brazil) - Gael ( France ) - Gilbert ( France ) - Guy Denning (UK) - Herbert Baglione (Brazil) - Hogre (Italy) - Hopnn (Italy) - Indie 184 (USA) - Inti Ansa ( France ) - Inti Castro (Chile) - Jaz (Argentina) - JB Rock ( Italy) - Jimmy C ( Australia) - Samina Joao (Portugal) - Jonone (USA) - Joys (Italy) - Julien Colombier ( France ) - Kan ( France ) - Katre ( France ) - Kruella (Portugal) - Legz ( France ) - Lek ( France ) - Liliwenn ( France ) - Loyola (Brazil) - Ludo ( France ) - Mrs. Sanbor ( France ) - March (Portugal) - Marko93 ( France ) , Mario Belem (Portugal) - Maryam (Saudi Arabia) - Mateo Garcia Leon ( France ) - Maz (Saudi Arabia) - moneyless (Italy) - Mosko ( France ) - Mp5 (Italy) - Myra ( France ) - Nano (Chile) - Nebay ( France ) - Nemi Uhu ( France ) - Nilko ( France ) - Orticanoodles (Italy) - PANTONIO (Portugal) - Paulo Arraiano (Portugal) - Peeta (Italy) - Philippe Baudelocque ( France ) - Rapto (Brazil) - Rea 1 ( France ) - Rodolphe Cintorino ( France ) - Roti ( France ) - Sambre ( France ) - Sean Hart ( France ) - Sebastien Preschoux ( France ) - Senso (Italy) - Seth ( France ) - Shaka ( France ) - Shoof (Tunisia) - Shuck2 ( France ) - Sowat ( France ) - Spazm ( France ) - Speto (Brazil) - Stew ( France ) - Stinkfish (Mexico) - Sumo (Luxembourg) - Tellas (Italy) - Tinho (Brazil) - Tore ( France ) -Uno ( France ) - Uriginal (Spain) - Vexta (Australia) - Vhils (Portugal) - / Maismenos (Portugal).

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• 1.1 On foot
• 1.2 By métro
• 2 Get around
• 8.2 Mid-range
• 8.3 Splurge

The 13th arrondissement of Paris is primarily a residential and business district in the southeast of Paris, on the Left Bank of the Seine.

Although not usually recognised as a natural magnet for tourists, the 13th nonetheless does hold several attractions of interest to the traveller that include the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (national library), completed in 1996, and part of a major new development of the Paris rive gauche district, the second large-scale urbanism project inside the city of Paris.

To the west of the PRG, along avenue de Tolbiac is the first of these urbanism projects, Les Olympiades , with its raised esplanade and the latest of the Paris Meteor (high-speed metro) stops, Les Olympiades . The southern part of the arrondissement is the Chinatown of Paris, perhaps the biggest in Europe.

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On foot [ edit ]

The easy walk to the 13th arrondissement from the centre of Paris (Île de la Cité) takes around 40 minutes, either through back streets or along the Seine promenade. It can be a very pleasant walk: you can walk across the Latin Quarter, for example, through the rue Mouffetard in the Paris/5th arrondissement .

By métro [ edit ]

You can get to the 13th arrondissement using 3 metro lines:

• Line   7   serves Gobelins' near the Manufacture des Gobelins, Place d'Italie , Tolbiac (good entrance point for Chinatown), Maison-Blanche , and Porte d'Italie , Porte de Choisy and Porte d'Ivry . You will get to these three stations only if you take a train that goes in the Mairie d'Ivry direction. Other trains take another direction and leave Paris immediately after Maison-Blanche.
• Line   6   serves Glacière , Corvisart , Place_d'Italie , Nationale , Chevaleret , near the avant-garde art galleries of rue Louise-Weiss, and Quai de la Gare , near the Bat-O-Far and other .
• Line   14   serves Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand (near the new Bibliothèque de France), Olympiades , Maison-Blanche , before heading to Orly Airport starting in June of 2024.

By bus [ edit ]

• Line 27: Orange in colour
• Line 47: Pink in colour
• Line 61: Dark green in colour
• Line 62: Brown in colour.
• Line 64: goes from Gambetta to Place d'Italie . Turquoise/light green in colour
• Line 67: Pink in colour
• Line 83: Dark yellow in colour

All of these lines stop at Place d'Italie.

• Line 89: Light blue in colour.
• Line 325: Light blue in colour. Heads to Château de Vincennes via the suburbs.

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Stroll across the Seine on the Pont Simone de Beauvoir pedestrian bridge from the Bibliotheque Nationale to the Parc de Bercy (in the 12th arrondissement).

Buy [ edit ]

• Les Frères Tang , av, de Choisy . The Tang brothers have the biggest Chinese grocery in Paris, occupying several multistory barracks-like buildings tucked into the Olympic housing project. They're known for giving away large balloons during Chinese New Year celebrations. They are one of the rare supermarkets to be open on Sundays.  

Eat [ edit ]

The south part of the district, in the high-rise Chinatown area, is the good place to go if you like Chinese or Vietnamese food. Many outlets sell Vietnamese sandwiches. The area is not the best for getting cheap, good quality Chinese food. Elsewhere the 13th has some standouts.

• Au Banquier , 7, rue du Banquier ( Campo-Formio    5   ), ☏ +33 1 43 36 73 46 . M 09:00–15:00, Tu–Su 09:00–00:00 . Decor is minimalist, but the northern African cuisine of this place is delicious.  
• 48.8288 2.3506 1 Chez Gladines , 5, rue des Cinq Diamants ( On the Butte aux Cailles ), ☏ +33 1 45 80 70 10 . M–F 12:00–15:00 19:00–23:45, Sa–Su 12:00–16:00 19:00–23:45 . Big Basque salads and a lot of ambiance in this moderately low-budget restaurant. This place is almost always crowded on Saturday nights.  
• Green Garden , 20, rue Nationale ( Port d'Ivry    7   ), ☏ +33 1 45 82 99 54 . East Asian vegetarian  
• Phở 14 ( Across from Sinorama ). For Vietnamese soups, best known in the district.  
• Sinorama , av de Choisy at rue de Tolbiac . One of many Chinese places in the outer part of the arrondissement.  
• Sala Thaï , 13, rue des Frères d'Astier de la Vigerie ( Maison Blanche    7   ), ☏ +33 1 45 84 13 22 . Delicious Thai food. Dinner for about €35 including beverages .  
• 48.8279 2.3506 2 Le Temps des Cerises , 18-20, rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles ( Place d'Italie   5     6     7   ), ☏ +33 1 45 89 69 48 . M–Sa 11:45–14:30 & 19:00–23:45 . If you are looking for quality French food, a large choice of good and affordable wine, this is the place to go. This is what we can call a "restaurant populaire" (as opposed to other posh and expensive places around) with a friendly staff, a very nice atmosphere, no way to reserve a table, just show up and the "patron" will find a place for you (arrive before 20:00 if you don't want to queue up, especially on weekends), shut down your mobile phone or you will be kicked out! The "Boudin a la Normande" (blood sausage) is a must, you can also get very decent goose liver and other French speciality such as "Salade de Museau". €12-20 .  

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• 48.8347 2.3776 2 La Dame de Canton ( La Guinguette Pirate ), Port de la Gare ( Bibliothèque François Mitterrand    14   or Quai de la Gare    6   ), ☏ +33 1 53 61 08 49 . daily 19:00–00:00 . Known for years as the Guinguette Pirate , this Chinese junk has been rechristened with her maiden name. The restaurant and bookings are still the same, with equal parts world music, chanson français and concerts for kids.  
• 48.828 2.351 3 Sputnik , 14, rue Butte-aux-Cailles ( Corvisart    6   ). ( updated Feb 2018 )

Sleep [ edit ]

Budget [ edit ].

All of the following hotels are near Place d'Italie, where public transportation is excellent.

• Hotel Ibis Paris Avenue d'Italie , 15 bis, av d'Italie. .  
• Hôtel Verlaine , 51, rue Bobillot , ☏ +33 1 45 89 56 14 .  
• Jack's , 19, av Stéphen Pichon , ☏ +33 1 45 85 17 34 . On a very quiet street. Jean Genet died in this hotel in 1986.  
• Kyriad Italie Gobelins , 5, rue Veronese , ☏ +33 1 47 07 20 90 , fax : +33 1 45 35 25 27 .  
• Tim Hotel Italie , 22, rue Barrault .  

Mid-range [ edit ]

• Holiday Inn Bibliotheque , 21, rue de Tolbiac , ☏ +33 1 45 84 61 61 , fax : +33 1 45 84 43 38 .  
• Holiday Inn Express Paris Place d'Italie , 178, boul Vincent Auriol , ☏ +33 1 44 24 01 01 , fax : +33 1 44 24 07 07 .  
• La Manufacture , 8, rue Phillipe de Champagne , ☏ +33 1 45 35 45 25 , fax : +33 1 45 35 45 40 .  
• Mercure Blanqui Place d'Italie , 25, boul Auguste Blanqui .  
• Mercure Gobelins , 8 bis, av de la Soeur Rosalie .  
• 48.82728 2.366942 1 Urban Bivouac , 1 rue Sthrau ( Metro: Olympiades ), ☏ +33 1 83 75 69 83 , [email protected] . 3-star hotel, 32 rooms. ( updated Jun 2020 )

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• Hôtel Villa Lutece , 52, rue Jenner .  

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