The ethos of the restaurant was always “hearty food at a modest price” – that has not changed and neither has the stunning interior.
Today the restaurant is a living legend that serves a traditional menu at great prices (main courses around €10) and it is a an authentic hark back to the past.ĭon’t be put off by the queues, the waiters have had a lot of experience, you’ll find the queue moves quickly, order taking is swift, food delivery is very un-French, it arrives speedily. When you sit in here it is easy to feel transported back over a century ago to when the restaurant first opened. This is a tourist draw but it’s also very popular with Parisians thanks to its inexpensive, traditional dishes and the sheer loveliness of its art deco interior. It is perpetually popular and there is always a long queue. Here are our pick of six of the best – historic restaurants in Paris… Bouillon Chartierīouillon Chartier is one of the most perfectly preserved restaurants of old Paris that you’ll find. Built at a time when art deco was all the rage they have kept their glorious interiors and retain the authentic atmosphere of their glory days. There were almost 250 restaurants with the name Bouillon by 1900 and although most are gone, several remain in Paris that are well worth a visit. It started a craze for Bouillon restaurants. In 1896 two brothers, Frédéric and Camille Chartier, created a brasserie named ‘Le Bouillon‘ inside a railway station concourse. Its fame spread and the rich mixed with the poor in enjoying the unpretentious broth. The workers loved the simple, tasty dish. The word bouillon appeared in 1855, invented by a butcher in Paris called Pierre Louis Duval who made a dish of meat and stock for workers at the Les Halles Market.
The bouillon restaurants of Paris were one of the first popular chains of eateries, created at the beginning of the 20 th Century. If you want to eat in Paris at a restaurant that offers great atmosphere, old school Paris menus and a real taste of yesteryear you won’t go wrong with a “bouillon”. Six of the best historic restaurants in Paris, where to walk through the door is like entering a time tunnel and emerging into the world of Paris a hundred years ago…
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