In May I will be staying in a Hotel near the St. Placide metro in Saint Germaine wih my twenty year old daughter. Could you please let me know of any good restaurants, bistros , shopping or other attractions in the area. I would appreciate any advice.
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The area is quite literally %26#39;..littered..%26#39; with good cafés, bistrots and restaurants to suit almost any taste, appetite or budget. The same applies to the variety of interesting shopping opportunities of all sorts--from inexpensive fashion accessories to stuffed giraffes (no foolin%26#39;). You can use the rue de Rennes as your rough guide, and meandering your way north, detouring onto any interesting side-streets along the way, toward Blvd. Saint Germain and the Seine.
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I stayed in St. Germain des Pres
last September for 10 days.
Blvd. St Germain is filled with
many many shops of all types.
It is an experience to walk
it both during the day and
evening.
My big purchase was a coat
for E285 that I wear all
the time; I have never seen
anything like it in the states.
I dined in several restaurants
that KDK SAIL told me about
as well as Relais Odeon Brasserie.
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I don%26#39;t know what street your hotel is actually on, but close by - a block or two to the west - is the rue du Cherche Midi, where there are a number of restaurants.
One you might look at is Le Midi Vins at 83 rue du Cherche Midi, probably very close to your hotel.
Another good one - a bit farther away, but probably no more than a half mile or so, is Wadja at 11 rue de la Grande Chaumière. It%26#39;s a bit more expensive than the first, but worth it. It is a really good neighborhood bistro, even if it isn%26#39;t much to look at.
Rue de la Grande Chaumière is a small street, south-east of your hotel, that runs off the very busy Boulevard du Montparnasse. There are many restaurants and cafés - including some very famous ones - along this street.
And just a few blocks east of your hotel is the lovely Jardin (gardens) du Luxembourg - a great place to take that wonderful bread and cheese and fruit and so on that you bought in the rue du Cherche Midi and have a picnic.
Enjoy Paris!
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There is good shopping in the whole area. Rues de Sevres, du Cherche-Midi, Bonaparte, du Four, de Seine, Jacob, de Rennes etc. have the best boutiques on the left bank.
For attractions you have the Luxembourg Gardens, some churches like Saint Sulpice, a few small museums, some ateliers where artists used to work. Also a great sample of various styles of architecture.
Restaurants: I like l%26#39;Epi du pin, la Bastide Odeon, le bouillon Racine, le parc aux cerfs just to name a few.
Note that by metro/bus you can easily go anywhere in Paris. You do not need to spend all your time near St Placide.
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I love the Petit Zinc on rue St Benoit
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I love the Petit Zinc on rue St Benoit
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Please see my post on free exhibits at the Hotel de Ville. Easily accessible by Bus 70 (or others) from your area.
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A spelling hint to the original poster, which might be useful when doing internet searches on local attractions :
I do not know why English speakers always use the feminine form of %26quot;Germaine%26quot; when designating the area - like Mont Saint-Michel which becames either feminine (Michelle) or Italian (Michele).
It is definitely Saint-Germain in French, from the historic abbey of Saint-Germain-des-prés (%26quot;in the meadows%26quot;), once located off the city walls, torn down during the revolution, and of which only the now parish church of the same name survives.
Saint Germain is a (male) figure, historically significant in the early christian days of the Paris region. Same thing for Saint Marcel (and not Marcelle or Marcele...), an early Paris bishop, and Saint Denis (not Denise...), beheaded in Paris because of his faith around 250 AD, who both gave their names to modern Paris boulevards...
As a consolation for modern feminists in this male-dominated world of early Paris sainthood, note the prominent and revered figure of Sainte Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris, whose tomb (well...what remains of it as her relics were thrown into the river during the revolution) can be seen in the church of Saint-Etienne-du-mont (male, again)(%26quot;St. Steven on the Mount%26quot;).
No particular gender problem with %26quot;Trudaine%26quot;, despite the %26quot;e%26quot; ending. It is simply a family name, that of an early 18th-century Paris mayor (or the equivalent of that modern notion), who gave its name to the pleasant avenue I live on...
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PS : The gender of archangels remains shrouded in mystery, but the masculine form prevails, so it is also definitely %26quot;boulevard Saint-Michel%26quot; and %26quot;Place Saint-Michel%26quot;. So no Michelle in sight here either...
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Seel ~%26gt; I%26#39;m also looking forward to going to the Saint Germain area. Apparently my ancestor lived for a short while in that area. He and his wife were married in St. Sulpice prior to coming to Canada.
Welcome to Trip Advisor and to TAPF.
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