Marché des Enfants Rouges

The experience

Paris's oldest covered market, operating since the early 1600s on the site of an orphanage whose children wore red uniforms — hence the name. After locals campaigned to save the wooden structure, it reopened in 2000 as a food market mixing produce, cheese and flower stalls with lunch counters serving Japanese bento, Levantine pitas and Moroccan plates. It sits on Rue de Bretagne in the Haut Marais and is closed Mondays.

One roof where the Marais actually eats lunch — a 400-year-old market turned counter-dining hall.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.