Came to the Bastille Market to try one of the rotisserie chickens from here. I don't remember the…read morename of the exact place, but it was the last bird I consumed in France. My swan song from a disappointing trip in the bird department. Off the eye test, it doesn't get much better. The beautiful sight of tissi's rotating in front of a fire breathing oven, potatoes in the tray below collecting the chicken juices as they fell, had me ready to run around the Bastille plaza yelling "LE MOUVEMENT!!". I thought this was going to be my first high level bird in the City of Light. Much to my chagrin, the one I got was just lukewarm. I was ready for my fingerprints to be fully burned off. There was so much potential here, but as always, I have to judge what's in front of me. If I don't have my integrity I have nothing. It landed at an 8.1/10 on the restaurant scale which is good, but if it was hot it could have been up there with the greats in the rare 9 territory. Unrealized potential is one of the most depressing things in the world. IG @johnny.novo Tiktok @jnov__ Substack @johnnynovo

This place can be overwhelming if you're a tourist or non native, but it's worth the struggle…read more Fresh produce, meats, and fish, and a great array of different ethnic foods you would be hard pressed to find elsewhere.

Came across the Rue de Grenelle Open Air Market on Sunday morning quite by accident. Located…read morebetween the Motte-Piquet and Dupleix Metro, under the overhead metro bridge. Stall after stall of fragrant breads, cheese, meats, flowers, etc. Ate a fragrant French cheese and decadent pastel de nata. Definitely one of the highlights of our Paris weekend.

In 2007 my wife and I arrived on a Sunday morning at our hotel which was acroos the road from the…read moremarket. What a great experience for us. In 2010 we actually changed our intinerary to attend the market so we could visit again. Still a great place to visit and the atmosphere and ambiance of the market is very special and very French. To Paris in 2013 and our visit again to market is on our priority list. Great food stalls and we had our breakfast there and the only challenge was the wide choice. We also bought some gifts there at good prices.

Very good food. Very good choices for food and quick bites. Services were efficient, people were…read morepleasant and patient. It is market so, not a place to find ambiance.

I love this open air Market in Paris. There is wonderful sightseeing, friendly merchants, delicious…read morebreads, nuts, wine, jams, honey, seafood, meats, fruits, vegetables, meats, olives, and flowers. There is also leather, shoes, jewelry, and antiques. Go early because some merchants close up early as they sell-out of products. A great place to pick up fresh, local food for your meals.

Cool albeit small market with a number of well known stalls from casual fruit juice and snacks to…read morefull on steaks , Moroccan and Japanese options under one roof. This is a pretty cool place in the Marais that opens up to a couple of neighboring streets with more food options that are pretty famous in their own right. Well worth walking around if you're in the area!

Food: 4/5 Service: 4/5…read moreAmbiance: 4/5 Grilled octopus: 4/5 Fried squid: 4/5 Orange wine: 4/5 I arrived at this famous market for a late lunch and found this restaurant tucked in the corner among many stores. I ordered the grilled octopus and fried squid, both were fresh and delicious. I also tried the orange wine, which was surprisingly good. While it's not exactly a bang for your buck, it's worth experiencing at least once.

Many French markets are wonderful…read more This is not to say all of them are. I have been dragged to a variety of them which have been "What's the Point"? Eight desultory stands some with vegetables, some with fish. There are also markets where the brick and mortar places next to them just have better stuff. That said, the Marche Henri-Barbusse in Levallois-Perret is one of the good ones. This is saying a lot because the brick and mortar competition next to Marche Henri-Barbusse is very good. One of the best cheese stores in the Paris area, a first rate butcher, and two very good produce stores are operating nearby in their own proper storefronts. But the Marche Henri Barbusse can even out-dazzle those fine competitors. a) A good market has a LOT of stands for a lot of choice. Levallois-Perret has two markets - the middle sized one and the big one. This is the big one. Big is good here. b) A good market has a lot of duplication so you can get fussy about which provider you want for each item. There are lots of double-ups here - notably on fish. ANY of the fish providers are better than the mediocre brink and mortar fish store nearby. Doubling up has one more advantage. Sometimes one provider doesn't have enough of what you need. If I were to do oxtail, I would have had to go to three butchers to get enough oxtails to do the job by my standards. Fortunately, they HAVE three butchers, each with their own micro-amount of fresh oxtail. c) A good market has exotica that you can't get anywhere else nearby. Henri-Broussard has c1) TWO markets where you can get innards and rare parts of the animal. One mostly gives you rare parts of the pig. The other gives you rare parts of veal and rabbit. c2) A Mauritian traiteur with Afro-Indian curried specialties. c3) An Eastern Mediterranean traiteur with different stuff than the Greek place a few blocks away. Both are good. d) An all poultry specialist that allows you to get the distinctive birds that are called for in French recipes. When your cookbook calls for a pintade, a chicken won't do. It will be the wrong size, will need a different cooking time, and will taste less interesting. The all poultry specialist can give you a choice of what kind of pintade you want. e) A flan maker that makes chocolate flans that are utterly to die for. (She does other flavors too.) f) A nougat maker. Nougat is good in France. It is terrible in the United States. * * * I could go on - but you get the idea here. Is this the best market in all of France or all of France? Not by a long shot. The Saone side market in Lyon is legendary. But any French market in the top 50 percent is going to be absolutely positively amazing. This place is absolutely positively amazing.

I'm a HUGE FAN of open-air markets and I'm sad I was only able to go to a few while I was in Paris…read more However this was DEFINITELY my favorite one!! It truely was an open air market and had SO MANY stands!! Each one was so unique and selling a variety of food from cheese, flowers, fresh pasta, seafood, tons of fruits, and etc. We came super early because we had a lot of stuff to do that day, but there was still a lot of stands already open at 730-8am. However it was relatively empty so I'm not sure if it gets crowded later. We took about 30 minutes to stroll through the market but I could have spent more time oogling at all the yummy deliciacies. We picked up some breakfast foods here but I forget what stand. We got some pate from one stand, some delicious, super soft bread from another, some really juicy pear and peaches, and had a mini breakfast picnic. Everything was very reasonably priced and the food was super yummy. We also went to Rue Cler later but I didn't like it as much since it didn't really have an open market feel (maybe I went to the wrong place?) It was much more pricey there as well and I didn't see many options. Another plus is that this is near the tour eiffel park, so we walked over (about 10 min walk) to enjoy our breakfast! :)

a typical neighborhood marketplace, it offers everything from fresh cheeses and lingerie. a good…read moreplace to wander around for an afternoon, open wednesdays and saturdays. it's location underneath the above-ground metro gives it sort of a cozy charm but also a raw industrialist quality. at least it speaks to parisians' notoriously clever use of 'empty' urban space. the neighborhood it serves is one of paris' less-touristy regardless of its close proximity to the eiffel tower. there are a couple of lively 'shopping'/restaurant streets off of the market that may be worth exploring as well, notably rue de commerce and rue lourmel. NOTE: i did an informal study/poll of this market one wednesday and discovered that only 5 of the 106 vendors that day were the producers or even remotely 'local'. generally, don't be fooled by parisian market places into thinking you're buying from farmers; mostly you're not (marche BIO des batignolles being a big exception here). mostly it's just more fun to have a face to face interaction with a person you're buying your food from, even if they're not the farmer. anyway, i did find some of the BEST HONEY SOAP ever here and that was indeed local & straight from the soap makers. also, markets are always good places to find delicious street food.

One if my fav farmers markets evah…read more Ao much fresh and unique items Fruit, meat, cheese, bread wine chocolate and surprise items Shop here for Versailles

If you like to experience a REAL FARMER MARKET, you must go the the Marche de Versailles. In…read moreFrance, its almost an institution. The Marche de Versailles take place on Tuesday, Fridays and Sundays from 7am to 1pm. "Farmers" or sellers start installing their "stands" at 3am/4am in the morning every single time. When I live in Versailles, it was our Sunday commitment. Buy your veggies, fruits, fresh eggs, fresh poultry and get your fresh cut flowers at the Marche! Its a great experience if you are a tourist but for us French people its just our day (sundays) where you spend time with your family and buy fresh products for the week Hundreds of sellers, very large amount of choice in product and price. The smell and the colors are just amazing (our Farmer Market here is California or Vegas are a joke). The fruits are so tasty, juicy & colorful. Selection of products depends on the season so for sure you don't have the plastic taste of tomato sometime i experience when you go to Smith, Albertson's or even Sprout or Whole Food. Yes the color is beautiful and shinny but the taste is missing. You pay cash your purchase. Many french people will come with their own "caddie or panier" little stroller to carry their purchase. Very common put your little kid in the back and ride your bicycle. Plenty of spot where you can park your bicycle. I Miss the ambiance and the smell of the Marche. It was my childhood memories Sellers are challenging each other in the funny and kind way screaming to customers their products are fresher than the other. Its just funny to experience it. If you ask they will always have to taste before you buy. Remember in France you buy by the Kilo not pound (so 1 kg is about 2 pounds) In France most of streets parking are free on sundays, NOT in Versailles. The Marche of Versailles is so popular that if you forget to pay your parking, you will for sure get a ticket. GREAT EXPERIENCE if you visit the Chateau de Versailles or Palace of Versailles, the Marche is less than 10 mns walk from it. Also many gastronomic restaurants to enjoy your papilles!!

Love this market! I have been coming here for 20 years, since I lived in the neighborhood. When I…read morevisit Paris, I travel here for the good offerings.

It is a small market area which is the joy of a client…read more faithful. First, the farmer whose products are divine: beautiful vegetables which stay alive several days, which are good for cooking. A family from generation to generation who is here on Wednesday and Saturday (morning). The cheese, just opposite sells very good cheese. It is very good advice. Behind a fishmonger relatively expensive but is perfect -- fish and fish! On the other side of the street, a merchant poultry cooked chickens, rabbits, kids. C'est bon! With the calf he made the minced meat, offal and paupiettes. The merchant of fruits and vegetables sells its own production, especially saison.Vegetable is very good and one is forced to hear vegetable sometimes missing or rare as white radish. A small market that has turned province and the rssemble quality for a price justified by the fact!