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Food
Le Pavillon des Canaux
A cafe worth sitting in · Paris, France
Photo: Fred Romero from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.3★Rating
3,671Reviews
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The experience
The 19th-century canal director's house on the Canal de l'Ourcq, left abandoned and then reopened in 2015 by Sinny & Ooko as a 'tiers-lieu' cafe. Its upstairs rooms are furnished like someone's flat — you drink your coffee in a bedroom or bathroom of the old house — with home cooking, natural wines and homemade pastries downstairs.
The rare Paris cafe where taking a book upstairs and staying three hours is the intended use.
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Where it is
Paris, France · Bassin de la Villette, 19e. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat 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.
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