Rue Mouffetard: The Best Foodie Street Inwards Paris

On a Parisian street that’s been inwards role for roughly 2,000 years, you’ll detect dozens of boucheries, boulangeries, fromageries, pâtisseries, poissonneries too but nearly whatever other form of -erie store relating to food.

Arriving from the Right Bank inwards Paris, you’ll detect the narrow cobblestone street of Rue Mouffetard as it snakes its agency downhill to a pocket-sized plaza too an outdoor fruit too veggie market. Much of this pocket-sized street is shut to traffic, therefore you’re costless to leisurely stroll from the butcher to the bakery to the pastry maker (sorry, no candlestick makers here). Lining this foodie street are several cafés too enough of shops to purchase the fixings for a wonderful French picnic or a delicious dinner.

As my beau foodie friend showed me Rue Mouffetard for the first-time final summer, I wondered, how had I missed this fabulous foodie street? The delightful affair is that Paris is filled amongst sooo many expert places to eat. Every visit, I come upwards armed amongst a novel listing of places I desire to dine at inwards the City of Lights.

 I can't resist French cheese!

Even Ernest Hemingway described it every bit a “wonderful, narrow crowded marketplace position street” inwards “A Moveable Feast.” 

But the Romans opened the route some 2,000 years agone to connect Antic Lutetia (what officially became Paris inwards 360 AD) to Italia via a southern road. The street ran through the pocket-sized hamlet of Bourg Saint-Médard that became the habitation of winegrowers too wealthy Parisians’ province houses every bit it was located on a sunny hill. In the 14^th century, the expanse became undesirable every bit the butchers, skinners too tanners workshops appeared on the river banks. They dumped their waste matter into the river turning it into a stinking sewer. The offending odours produced were unremarkably called moffettes so the street became known every bit Rue des Moffettes eventually evolved into Rue Mouffetard.

Fortunately, the exclusively butchers you’ll detect hither instantly are ones selling delicious types of saucissons too fresh meat if you lot fancy a homecooked meal.

The prime number fourth dimension for visiting is Sabbatum too Sun morning. Remember: everything is shut yesteryear Sun afternoon too remains shut until Tuesday morning. My visits were on a Wed too on a Sabbatum inwards the summer, amongst the weekend beingness the busiest.

Besides gazing into all the shops amongst nutrient envy, my friends too I decided to choose handgrip of the fixings for a picnic. We went from store to store buying dissimilar bits of cheese, bread, vino (that came amongst disposable glasses), macarons, pastries too but nearly anything edible. It’s hard non to purchase 1 of everything!

My girl too I settled downwards on a picnic bench inwards a pocket-sized commons adjacent to the 15^th-century St. Medard church. Or if you lot are willing to walk a distich minutes further – the Jardin des Plantes, adjacent to the Natural History Museum, is a gorgeous oasis for a picnic. The French cops didn’t seem to remove heed that nosotros were drinking vino inwards the park. How tres French!

A picnic for ii inwards Paris! 

Or for five!

Good friends too picnics inwards Paris are a check made inwards heaven! ;)

As you lot tin meet from my photos if you lot desire a one-stop foodie shopping experience, too therefore caput to Rue Mouffetard when you lot catch Paris. I know I’ll endure heading dorsum hither again…and hopefully soon!