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stuff over steaming bowls laced with battered prawns, sweet duck and curry. Arrive well be-
fore 1pm (or 8pm) or risk leaving disappointed. Cash only, no reservations and no sign.
JAPANESE
SANUKIYA
11:30am-10.30pm daily;
Pyram-
ides or Palais Royal-Musée du Louvre)
Don't wear your favourite shirt to this popular Japanese eatery as you'll undoubtedly emerge
with a few stains after slurping up a bowl of freshly made
udon
noodles. Dishes come in
four styles: classic (served in broth),
bukkake
(with a hot broth added by the diner),
hiyashi
(with a cold broth added by the diner) and
zaru
(cold noodles with dipping sauce).
Itadaki-
masu!
GERMAN
STUBE
10am-3.30pm
Mon, to 10pm Tue-Sat; ; Pyramides)
Specialising in
currywursts
(basically a chopped up hotdog covered in a curry sauce; €5),
Stube does brisk business throughout the day, with lines out the door for beef sausages, sa-
voury quiches, sauerkraut and a mouth-watering selection of freshly baked pies. Seating can
be hard to find, but park benches in the Palais Royal are just across the street. Beck's on tap.
FAST FOOD
FRENCHIE TO GO
8.30am-4.30pm
Mon-Fri, 9.30am-5.30pm Sat & Sun; ; Sentier)
Despite the drawbacks - limited seating, eye-poppingly expensive donuts - the fast-food
outpost of the burgeoning
Frenchie
empire is a wildly popular destination. Bilingual staff
transform choice ingredients (eg cuts of meat from the Ginger Pig in Yorkshire) into Amer-
ican classics like pulled-pork and pastrami sandwiches, accompanied by cornets of fries,
coleslaw and pickled veggies.
WINE BAR
RACINES
noon-2.30pm & 7.30-10.30pm Mon-Fri; Grands Boulevards or Richelieu-Drouot)
Snug inside a former 19th-century
marchand de vin
(wine merchant's; look up to admire the
lovely old gold lettering above the door), Racines (meaning 'Roots') is an address that
shouts Paris at every turn. Shelves of wine bottles curtain the windows, the old patterned
