The Epicurean’s tour of Rive Gauche
This tour will take you to the most coveted destinations ensuring you don’t miss a thing in a city known to have endless gastronomy offerings.
- Theme
- Food & Drink
- Location
- Rive Gauche, Paris
- Duration
- 5 hours
- Designer
- Uptaste
Experience
Route
La Maison d’Isabelle
A celebrated bakery that uses organic flour and butter. They won first prize for best all-butter croissant (croissant au beurre) in 2018 and still make the best croissant in the city today.
Fromagerie Laurent Dubois
Laurent Dubois is the first cheesemonger to win the award Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Craftsman of France), the highest honor for artisans. His shops are still the best in town. Taste samples before you buy.
L’avant Comptoir De La Mer
This seafood tapas bar is standing only with eccentric menu boards hanging on the ceiling. If seafood isn’t your thing, peak in next door to its older sibling, ...De La Terre. The Chef-Owner Yves is very celebrated here.
Marché couvert Saint-Germain
Although it may seem a bit sleepy from the outside, step in and really pay attention. Watch the shop owners and go where your nose takes you. Buy some olives, tapenade, or jam to go with your cheese and bread.
Le Jardin du Luxembourg
Spacious and stunning, this garden is a great place to catch your breath and enjoy a small apéro (only on the benches, not on the grass!) and truly be a flâneur.
Le Chocolat Alain Ducasse
From bars to gift box creations to new inventions like black sesame praline bars, this place is a chocolate lover’s dream. If you like nuts, make sure you try anything with toasted nuts.
La Grande Épicerie
Spend some time perusing the many aisles, taking you on far flung adventures of every corner of the world. If you’re looking to take back food souvenirs, this is the place.
La Boucherie Grégoire
Owned by Michelin starred Chef Antonin Bonnet on a street that also is home to Ferrandi, one of the top culinary institutions, this is the best butcher shop in Paris, offering top products that are sourced ethically.
Practicalities
- Come hungry and with good walking shoes.
- Bring a reusable bag to keep your food purchases all in one place.
- The opening hours of the Jardin du Luxembourg is dependent on the time of the sunsets so make sure you look into that in advance
About
This route was designed by Uptaste.
Uptaste
What is Uptaste? We’re something like a travel agency business (although we don’t sell flights or hotels). Instead, we specialise in finding the right place to eat, wherever and whenever you are, using location intelligence combined with expert and community curation. Uptaste destinations will rarely be restaurants; they’ll be shops, they’ll be street traders, they’ll be local markets, or some other easy-to-miss but hard-to-forget place.