Tour de France: Paris, 9ème
Sometimes you don’t fully appreciate a place until you leave. And while Paris is still my current home, I’m off in the US for a few weeks and I wanted to invite some of my favorite Paris bloggers to help show you a bit of Paris, but through their own eyes. Paris is made of 20 different arrondisements (conveniently the last 2 numbers in any Paris zipcode) that wrap around the city, each with a flavor of their own. I gave everyone the basic guidelines of a picture looking up, one looking down, a door, an overall street photo, an architectural detail and something you can eat, but basically I wanted to see where creative juices would take it. Today I start it off by welcoming you to my own neighborhood, the 9th/St. Georges. It’s a neighborhood I never would have known about had I not moved there, but now I never want to leave. It’s perfectly Parisian, but off the tourist track, and easily accessible to everywhere.


{My favorite treat in Paris – kougloff . I get one of these at Maison Landemaine on Rue des Martyrs every time after I go swimming}
{Near metro Richelieu Drouot, at Blvd Haussman and Rue Lafitte, look up and see Notre Dame de Lorette with Sacre Coeur behind it – you’d never know unless you look}
- Kooka Boora coffee shop, 62 rue des Martyrs & 53 ave Trudaine – my office away from home, where my friend Jenni is their fabulous new pastry chef (don’t miss their fresh squeezed juice either). [Update: Jenni is now at NoGlu, a new gluten free resto open for lunch in the Passage des Panoramas].
- Le Sans Souci, 65 rue Jean Baptiste – chill bar that serves dinner and a mean planche
- Da Carmine, 61 rue des Martyrs – known for their pizza, I’m a huge fan of their 5 Euro paninis
UPDATE: I shared a few more of my favorite places in the 9th on Lost in Cheeseland.
Susan
June 21, 2011 at 9:54 pm //
What an awesome concept, I can’t wait to read them all, thanks for sharing the 9th!
Lost In Cheeseland
June 21, 2011 at 10:09 pm //
Great idea Anne, and I can’t wait to see my post about the 11th go live!
Meg
June 21, 2011 at 10:47 pm //
Can’t forget Chloé S!
Great post. I also think this is so cute. I’m stoked to see more…!!
Maureen
June 22, 2011 at 12:21 am //
Wonderful idea. It will give me a really good overview of Paris! Thank you.
Christine
June 22, 2011 at 1:39 am //
LOVE the dog photo! And I just did a post on coffee in Melbourne, and someone mentioned Kooka Burra–I’ll have to try it next time I’m in Paris to see if it’s as good as the amazing coffee here!
La Franglaise
June 22, 2011 at 9:10 am //
So we are actually neighbours! I thought you didn’t live too far because I would often recognise the 9th in photos you posted.
I love every place you mentioned here, but would also add the musée de la vie romantique rue chaptal which is a great place to go for cake & tea in the spring/summer as they have a garden!. I also like going to the bakers at the top of rue Henry Monnier because they sell Portuguese pastel de natas and it reminds me of my Erasmus year in Coimbra. And my fav resto in the 9th is probably the Sizin on rue St Georges.
A bientot voisine! ;)
risamay
June 22, 2011 at 4:49 pm //
The dog on the scooter snap is hilarious. Hope he wasn’t up there initially to hump it …
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d r e w
June 23, 2011 at 11:03 pm //
thank you for showing us all the different arrondisements. and i see we both love the “shake it” app on our iphones!
Sol B
July 1, 2011 at 11:34 am //
What a wonderful idea!! I’m looking forward to read the chapter about the 15ème (my actual neighborghood)!
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