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Does anyone know the best places to see in paris, other than the obvious sites? And where? |
Travel Info For example: Best cafes Best shopping Best entertainment Best clubs & discos & bars? Best unknown utopia? All within reasonable pricing =) THANKS!! Travel Tips I'll tip you off on the bars/clubs 1. Cab (cabaret) is an extremely posh club on the entrance of the Louvre des antiquaires (entrance on the pl. du palais-royal). entrance is 20euro, drinks 13 2. Man-Ray is also extremely posh right off the champs elysees (rue marbeuf). it's a bar/club. entrance 20 euro 3. Wax is a brilliant retro feel right off the Bastille. it's a bar and a club but entrance is free. brilliant music and environment. 4. Barrio Latino, not far from Bastille as well, is a fine latino club on the rue fbg st.-antoine. 5. Favela Chic, off the Place Republique is a fairly rustic but chic place to go out as well, it's a restaurant, bar and club. (rue fbg du temple) 6. Mezzanine de l'Alcazar (MAZ) on rue mazarine is a brilliant lounge bar on the 6th arrondisement. it's just near odeon. 7. Le Violon Dingue on the 5th arrd (don't remember the street look it up) is a cava-gone-bar with a nice ambience and great music. 8. The hideout (also on the 5th arrd rue du pot de fer near rue mouffetard) is a small pub but with a brilliant attitude. 9. The frog and princess is your local english brewpub. fantastic international environment. that's rue princesse on the 6th arrd, right near st.-germain-des-pres 10. Pub st.-Germain, right off the rue st.-germain (rue de l'ancienne comedie, from odeon) recently remodeled is a brilliant oriental looking lounge bar. there's 10 ideas. i might get some time to answer for the rest of what you are looking for, but can't now. Here's some ideas for off-the-beaten-path cafes: 1. Cafe de la Mosquee is the cafe inside the paris mosque. it has a fantastic environment and is, obviously, welcoming to tourists from all religions (with no dress code or anything since you don't actually enter the mosque itself but the compound). this is in the 5th arrd. near the Jardin des plantes and the museum of natural history. you MUST have the mint tea, try the narguilla (shisha) and the desserts. 2. the cafe at the Centre du Monde Arabe gives you not only the experience of this fantastic building but since it is on the rooftop and on the riverside (5th arrd. at the point where the bd. st.-germain ends) it gives you a fantastic view of the paris skyline, especially the backside of notre-dame and the ile de la cite. can't miss that. 3. the tea room at Berthillon, paris' most famous ice creams. this is on the ile st.-louis walking along the main street (rue st.-louis en l'ile). try the white chocolate ice cream. seriously. 4. les deux magots or cafe de flore. they're touristy and a bit expensive on the 6th arrd (st.-germain-des-pres), but they're famous for being a centre for the intellectuals (the place in front is the sartre/beauvoir square). 5. for a relaxed environment i used to hang out at a little cafe located at the southwest angle of the jardin du luxembourg along the rue d'assas (6th arrd). you have the panoramic of the park and the kids leaving the schools, very parisian. 7. ANY cafe within the Place des Vosges. it's a fantastic, calm square with a brilliant environment and architecture. you can further relax on the grass of the square. this thus far. oh as far as entertainment, give this place a try -Indiana cafe on the rue du maine (metro stop gaite, line 13 i think). it's an american style bar with billiards. i used to hang out there. there's plenty of other billiards/bowling/gaming areas there and around Montparnasse. as far as shopping, here's a couple of tips: -AVOID the Champs-Elysees by all means. it's too crowded, the shops there you can find elsewhere (and with more/better kept merchandise since not every single windowshopper comes in to try it). do these circuits so you can cover most shopping areas: 1. start off at the Madeleine heading towards the opera garnier through the bd. des capucines. go behind the opera and you'll find galeries lafayette. continue east through the bd. Haussmann until pl. republique. 2. Rue de rivoli, plain and simple, between pl. concorde and Bastille. you might want to stop at les halles, which has a mall. 3. start off at Montparnasse heading north via rue de rennes. you reach st.-germain-des-pres, head east through the bd. saint-germain until st.michel, where you cross the river and head on through sebastopol and the parallel st.-denis. you'll cover beaubourg/marais that way. 4. the passages between the 2nd, 3rd and 9th arrd.... look for the addresses yourself, I can't remember them. it's a whole lot of tunnels between buildings with all sorts of bric a brac. 5. The flea market at porte clignancourt. it's not as bad as it sounds, it's brilliant 6. if you want to spend loads of money, try rue du fbg st. honore starting at the arc de triomphe. 7. still lots of money? try rue george V from the champs elysees (metro stop george V on line 1). lastly, I reckon by Utopias you mean places to chill. there's a few fail-proof places (especially in the summer) 1. Parc monceau. it's rarely visited since it's off most tourist tracks but is always crowded with parisians relaxing on the grass. fantastic. (17th arrd) 2. Parc de buttes-chaumont. same as parc monceau (19th arrd) 3. Parc montsouris, same thing (14th arrd) 4. La maison du the, on the chinese district (13th arrd). can't remember the exact address (look it up by the name), but not only do they have brilliant tea, you can sometimes catch the traditional ceremonies they pull of to serve it. 5. street markets. I'll point out the more famous ones but they usually open one or two days a week. you get the freshest craft/bio foods. try getting to the mouffetard one, the one at saxe-breteuil, or the joinville one. they're open on sunday (S-B on saturday). look for Nicole Meyer's book 'Paris in a basket' for more info on that. 6. the acueduct at daumesnil (12th arrd), a nice little walk you'll find 5min. away from the bastille. Source(s): lived in paris recently Other Travel Tips Several thoughts come to mind: --Climb to the top of Notre Dame, very small charge, great view & you get to see the gargoyles up close. --Walk around "Ille de la Cite" its the small island just south of Notre Dame & in my opinion the most "french" part of Paris. --Take A Baton Mouche ride on the Seine, everybody sees the boat yet few tourist go for the ride. --The US embassy has a small museum on the history of the French in America. If your a student or a teacher you will find enough info to do term paper in about 10 minutes--all you have to do is type it up. Call to find out when its open. Good Luck My wife and I stayed out of the usual tourist spots, except for site-seeing. Otherwise we'd walk the back streets and eat where Parisians eat and drink. We didn't find hardly anything to be "reasonable" in price, merely because the US dollar is so devalued at this time. Try a guide book. Frommer's, Fodor's. Eyewitness is great for those who need pic. These books tell you where the best places are around Paris. get one from your library I recommend the Luxembourg Gardens.Jardin du Luxembourg ( in french) great for french watching. |
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