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FAST FOOD
If you want to grab a bite on the move, you won't do better than these:
lunch menu €15; noon-11pm; St-Sébastien Froissart)
The gourmet burger bar born in the 2e
now has a bar in the Marais and it's a roaring success. Easy to spot by the hungry
crowd lingering outside waiting for a table or a takeaway in a brown paper bag, Blend
is a small, smart, black-and-wood space serving the best bijou-sized burgers in town.
Meat is by celebrity butcher Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec.
midnight Sun-Thu, to 5pm Fri; St-Paul)
A veteran Parisian favourite for lunch, this kosher
address cooks up perfectly deep-fried chickpea balls and turkey or lamb shwarma
sandwiches.
11.30am-9pm Mon-Thu, to 11.30pm Fri-Sun; St-Paul)
End with a gelato, in true Italian style
spatula'd, not scooped. Twelve flavours include gianduia(hazelnut chocolate from
Turin) and zabaione,made from egg yolks, sugar and sweet Marsala wine. Great Itali-
an caffètoo.
LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
ASIAN EAT STREET
If it's a steaming bowl of noodles you fancy, make a beeline for rue a
, 3e (metro
Arts et Métiers), a small restaurant- and shop-lined street known for cooking authent-
ic Chinese food and saving the trek to the larger Chinatown in the 13e.
ue au Ma
u Maiire, 3e
