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16th Arrondissement Neighborhood Guide

 

 

"Paris is the capital of France and the
16th arrondissement is the
capital of Paris."

-Victor Hugo

 

Here is a little guide to the neighborhood. It will give you a feeling for what life is like and what
you will find there.

 

Once you have read our guide, we recommend you also take a look at http://www.pariscope.fr/ for exhaustive event listings.
Also check out our own Best of Paris listings for lots of great "insider" ideas on what to do and see!

 

 

Restaurants

  • Au Joyeux Dragon: a friendly and inexpensive Chinese restaurant (make sure to specify you don't want MSG). Good food.
    It is on the way to the apartment from the subway.62, rue de l'Assomption. Tel: 01 45 25 95 52.


  • Le Brandevin: a very good neighborhood bistro. Lunch and dinner. Corner of rue du Dr. Blanche & rue de l'Yvette. Tel: 01 42 24 19 33


  • Le Royal Palais: a really delicious deli/caterer. They have warm dishes as well as pastry or wine. On the expensive side, but worth it.
    Open rather late for this neighborhood.29, rue du Dr. Blanche. Tel: 01 45 25 67 67   (Their card says: "English spoken" but I've never tried
    to speak English there).


Other good restaurants

  • Le Petit Marguery: Convivial family restaurant specializing in seafood. Lunch and dinner daily. 81, rue Lafontaine , Tel: 01.42.88.00.86.


  • La Gare: A big, funky restaurant on the old tracks of the Auteuil Railroad. Lunch and dinner daily.19, Chaussée de la Muette Tel: 01.42.15.15.31.


  • Carette: Headquarters of the "BCBG" set (French equivalent of the WASPs). Excellent tearoom. Tea and pastry. Daily 8am-7pm.
    4, place du Trocadéro Tel: 01. 47.27.88.56.


Takeout Food

  • Lenôtre: 44, rue d'Auteuil.  Tel: 01 45 24 52 52   Delicious, expensive pastries and prepared food. Daily 9am (8am for bakery)-9pm


  • Le Fruitier d'Auteuil: 5, rue Bastien-Lepage. Tel: 01 45 27 51 08  Phantasmagoric produce and a special pain d'épices.


  • Traiteur Ladélice: 37, rue d'Auteuil. Daily 10:30am-9:30pm. Delicious beignets aux pommes.

 

Other Amenities and Points of Interest

Rue du Dr. Blanche has a good bakery, Blanche de Castille. They make a delicious pain blanc carré. Their baguettes are good (but dry as stone the next morning). Good croissants. Next to it is an excellent cheese/dairy shop. And next to that shop,



Le Panier des Gourmands is what the French call a "superette": a grocery store/supermarket.
It has a good selection of merchandise - from detergent to fruit to wine - but the best place, cheaper, is the Franprix, almost at the corner of rue du Dr. Blanche
and rue Raffet (at other the end of the rue du Dr. Blanche).


There is a good landromat in that same block, Au Fer d'Or (56 rue du Dr. Blanche). They will do your laundry if you ask them. A brand new landromat has opened next to the bakery.It has a great reputation but I have not tried it. There is a cleaner at the corner of the rue du Dr. Blanche et rue de l'Assomption, in our building. They work fast.



Near the rue Raffet, at 51 rue du Dr. Blanche, is the Fondation Le Corbusier, located in the white villages of Raoul La Roche at the back of a leafy alley.
It is a very interesting building which is open to the public.



Right next to our apartment, at number 9 rue du Dr. Blanche, is the impasse (dead end) Mallet Stevens. All the small buildings and villas, designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens for himself and his friends, are landmark buildings. They are worth looking at. The architect lived at number 12.



It is a very bourgeois neighborhood, but it has lots of hidden treasures like the Hameau de Boulainvilliers or the Hameau Boileau (a hameau is a hamlet).
A good guide will tell you about all the artists' studios and gardens which still exist in this part of the 16th.



Just two blocks away is the Musée Marmottan, across the train tracks on the boulevard de Montmorency in the jardins du Ranelagh. The museum is housed in the townhouse of art critic Paul Marmotta who gave it to the city in 1932, with his collections. In 1971, Michel Monet gave 65 works from his father, most of them painted at Giverny.



There is an open air market on Place d'Auteuil.



The rue de Passy is also a good shopping street.



Honoré de Balzac lived in what remained for a long time a village. His house, at 47 rue Raynouard, is open to the public. The garden of the musée rolls down to 24 rue Berton,one of the city's most charming streets, steeped in lush greenery.

 

[Note that stores in our neighborhood close roughly between 12:30/1:00 and 3:30 for the siesta (one works to live, not the other way around...).]

 

 

 
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