We were craving pasta & Italian cuisine, as we were strolling the streets after visiting the Musée…read moredu Louvre. We ended up around this neighborhood and deciding to try Pompei!
Pompei is located in what seems like more quiet, secluded neighborhood with other small restaurants & fruit stand/convenience store. The restaurant definitely started to fill up their seats by the time we got to ordering our food, so they definitely get busy.
Pompei has both outdoor & indoor seating available. They have two floors of seating, with the bathroom on the second floor & bar area on the first floor.
The staff was very kind & helpful with explaining the menu & elaborated with us about their specials they had today.
What we ordered:
-capricciosa €18
-spaghetti alle vongole €24
-tagliatelles aux Noix de saint Jacques (x2) €25
-spaghetti with prawns €29
- white wine with berries (I believe) €5 & 2 cokes €5.50/each
Total: €137
Spaghetti with prawns is not on the menu, but today they unfortunately ran out of meat for the fettuccine bolognese & asked if we'd like to try anything else. We opted for spaghetti with prawns, which ended up being €29.
All of our orders included some form of seafood & tasted light, while still seasoned nicely & fresh. My favorite was the dish I had, spaghetti alle vongole. It was steaming hot & had sweet notes from the clams.
We also decided to order the capricciosa pizza halfway through our meal because we noticed pizza is very popular here & every table next to us had ordered at least two pizzas. The pizza was bomb! Very tasty.
I would totally come here again and recommend Pompei to anyone looking for delicious Italian food, while in Paris!