Affordable restaurants are highly in demand in Paris. It is possible to have a good meal in the city at reasonable price. Affordable set menus are served at lunchtime in most restaurants, so that lunch is often much cheaper than dinner. Tap water (carafe d'eau) is free. The majority of cheap restaurants in touristic districts are Asian. There are few affordable restaurants near the Eiffel Tower and the Champs-Elysées. Paris restaurant map. Restaurants in Paris.
Affordable restaurant Eiffel Tower
Café du Commerce is an affordable and spacious three floor restaurant, serving traditional French cuisine. Café du Commerce is located on a lively and distinctive street of the 15th arrondissem*nt, two metro stops from the Eiffel Tower.
The Café du Commerce serves a selection of authentic recipes for you to discover including their poireau vinaigrette (leeks in vinaigrette), oeuf mayonnaise (eggs and mayonnaise) and of course, their quality Limousine meat.
Around 30 euros. 19.6 euros two set menu + café at lunch time. Metro: Motte Piquet Grenelle. Two metro stops from Eiffel tower. Map.
Café du Commerce
51 rue du commerce
Paris 75015 France
Café du Commerce is a quality restaurant
Cheap restaurant Champs-Elysées
The Champs-Elysées have few affordable restaurants and the value for money is usually low. It is therefore worth mentioning l'Alsace, a brasserie that serves an affordable set menu despite the astronomic rents. Like all brasseries in town, l'Alsace serves sauerkraut, seafood, beer and Alsace wines. The restaurant is open 24/7 seven days a week. The two course menu at 19.90 euros is served for lunch and dinner and the quality is excellent. There is also plenty of choice à la carte, but it will naturally cost extra money.
L'Alsace
39, avenue des Champs-Elysées
Paris 75008 France
L'Alsace is an affordable brasserie
Cheap eats near Champs-Elysées
At walking distance from Champs-Elysées, rue de Ponthieu has takeouts and affordable restaurants stormed by young white collars at lunchtime. The value for money is much better there than in Champs-Elysées. Locate rue de Ponthieu on Paris map. Metro: Franklin-Roosevelt station on line 1 and 9.
L'Italien is a rare, tasty and affordable Italian restaurant near Champs-ELysées.
L'Italien
40, rue de Ponthieu
Paris 75008 France
Weito is a new affordable japanese restaurant with interesting set menus at lunch and dinner times.
Weito
54, rue de Ponthieu
Paris 75008 France
L'Italien is an affordable restaurant rue de Ponthieu
Cheap restaurants Montparnasse
Galettes and crepes are the iconic dishes of Brittany, the region west from Paris bordering the Atlantic Ocean. They make up together a delicious affordable meal. Due to its proximity to Gare Montparnase with trains to Brittany, rue du Monrparnasse has many affordable and delicious creperies competing with each other. Waiting time is variable.
Crêperie de Pont-Aven
54, rue du Montparnasse
Paris 75014 France
Crêperie Port Manech
52, rue du Montparnasse
Paris 75014 France
Crêperie Le Plougastel
47, rue du Montparnasse
Paris 75014 France
Crêperie Saint-Malo
53, rue du Montparnasse
Paris 75014 France
Creperies are among the cheapest restaurants
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Asian restaurants in Paris
As in many large cities around the world, most very affordable restaurants in town are Asian or oriental. They change rapidly making it hard to propose a selection.
Rue Sainte-Anne (map) close to Le Louvre, has many good and cheap Japanese restaurants.
There are many good and affordable vietnamese and chinese restaurants around avenue d'Ivry (map) in the 13th arrondissem*nt chinese neighbourhood.
We are regulars of Les Pâtes Vivantes (46, rue du Faubourg Montmartre and 3 rue de Turbigo) specialized in Chinese noodles and Mian Fan (124, boulevard du Montparnasse, 20 rue Mogador, 15 Bvd Montmartre, 40, rue Saint-Georges) serving tasty Asian fusion food.
There are many affordable greek and lebanese restaurants around rue Saint-Séverin (map) near Notre-Dame Cathedral and Rue Mouffetard near Le Panthéon.
Mian Fan serves Asian fusion food
Le Louvre Japanese restaurant
Higuma is a well known institution in town. Two very cheap restaurants near Louvre Museum and Opéra Garnier, serving traditional Japanese food, such as ramen, donburi, itamemono, gyozas and ramen. No sushis or sashimis.
The ramen are excellent: bowl of broth made from soybean paste with fresh pasta, bamboo shoots, pork, bean sprouts or bowl of salt based broth with fresh pasta, lots of various vegetables. The stir-fries (itamemono) are delicious, especially the large bowl of rice covered with pork, squid, various vegetables in Japanese sauce.
Try the often busy Higuma rue Sainte-Anne, near Le Louvre, in the Japanese restaurant street. No bookings.
Higuma Sainte-Anne
32 Bis Rue Saint-Anne
Paris 75001 France
Higuma Palais Royal
27 Boulevard des Italiens
Paris 75002 France
Higuma is cheapest restaurant near Le Louvre
Affordable restaurant with Paris view
There are few affordable restaurants with a view in Paris. A good choice is the Marina lunch cruise. At 58 euros, it combines an excellent French lunch with a sighseeing cruise.
The Marian Seine lunch cruise is a one and a half hour cruise. It let you admire Notre-Dame, Musée d'Orsay, the Louvre Museum and the Eiffel Tower. During the cruise, a three course gastronomic lunch is served.
The lunch cruise is affordable
Best affordable French gastronomy
Most affordable French gastronomic restaurants have a set menu at lunch time, but dinner is much more expensive. Le Petit Marguery is one of very few French gastronomic restaurants serving the set meny at dinner time.
The menu is renewed every day with products sourced in Rungis fresh products market. The traditional French specialties follow the seasons. The famous Grand-Marnier soufflé is always on the menu. The wine list showcases selected estates in France. Pierre-André Choisnett is a great young cook and Youssoupha Tabouré makes up for a warm and efficient service.
Three course set menu at lunch and dinner time costs 36 euros. Unbeatable two course menu with café at 22 euros at lunch and dinner time.
Le Petit Marguery
9 Bd de Port Royal
Paris75013France
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Notre-Dame affordable restaurant
Parisians like us can miss La Tourelle for years. The local who recommended it to us hesitated. If more people know the place, it could change the wrong way. No web site. No thrills. They focus on food the old way and serve delicious home made French dishes at more than affordable prices for this district. The two course set menu costs 19 euro.
For more than 100 years, Café de la Tourelle has been a neighborhood restaurant for working Parisians. While the place has changed hands a few times, most recently in 2000, nothing much has changed. There is nothing hip about La Tourelle. No trendy menu, no cute server, no floral arrangement. Even the address, though in a highly touristic district near Notre-Dame, is on a quiet side street off the busy Boulevard Saint-Michel. Get in and try it. Metro: Saint Michel line 4. Map. Close to Notre-Dame.
Café de la Tourelle
5, rue Hautefeuille
Paris 75006 France
La Tourelle is an authentic French restaurant
Affordable restaurant left bank
Bouillon Racine represents over 100 years of culinary history close to the Sorbonne University in the heart of the left bank.
It was created in 1906 as a bouillon, the ancestors of Parisian brasseries serving food to working people. Its Art Nouveau setting made of carved wood, ceramics, mirrors and glass paintings, is one of the most beautiful in town.
Now listed as an historical monument, Bouillon Racine offers an immersion in the Paris of the 1900s.Where food is concerned, the chef Alexandre Belthoise has selected a subtle blend of modern day and more traditional dishes. Two course set menu at lunchtime during week for 19.5 euros. 3 course menu at 35 euros for lunch and dinner. Lunch review.
Paris metro: Cluny La Sorbonne metro station of Luxembourg metro station. Map.
Bouillon Racine
3 rue Racine
Paris 75006 France
Bouillon Racine is near Luxembourg Gardens
Affordable and welcoming restaurant
Boualem and Yakob just opened le Petit Plaisir restaurant in the left bank a few metro stops away from Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Près. These very welcoming brothers perpetuate the tradition of affordable restaurants for locals. Good cuisine made from fresh products, good French wine, very affordable set menu at lunch time, Parisian atmosphere.
If you would like to take your time and go off the beaten tourist track, rush to Le Petit Plaisir. This is Paris at its best.
Paris metro: Plaisance line 4. Map.
Le Petit PLaisir
15, rue des Suisses
Paris 75014 France
Yakob will welcome you at Le Petit Plaisir
Tiny affordable restaurant left bank
We would like to be able to recommend many Le Petit Olivier, but there are few in central districts. In the lovely, trendy and expensive rue du Cherche-midi, this tiny and packed restaurant serves a good dish of the day and a desert for 10 euros. The chef, who also does the service, cooks traditional French disches, like baked sardines, smoked sausage and lentils or black pudding as daily specials. On the service side, no fuss. The best way to choose your dessert? “You get up, you look in the fridge. “Indeed, on the other side of a small corridor, banana chocolate fondants and speculoos mousse are waiting for gourmets. "The spoons are next," calls out the chef. For a bit, we would almost ask the neighbors if they want us to bring them something. Unbeatable. No web site. No reservation.
Le Petit Olivier
82, rue du Cherche-Midi
Paris 75006 France
Le Petit Olivier in left bank
Le Marais affordable restaurant
In the heart of Le Marais, close to Picasso Museum, innovative and fresh French food with affordable set menu at lunch for 21.50 euros. Good wine glasses. Pictures.
The chef, Gil Rosinha, creates the dishes himself depending on the products which are available. The dishes are all thought out and diverse. They vary from a simple salad and soup of the day to fois gras in the style of pot au feu, passing by roasted duck breast with vanilla potato puree accompanied by a mango and ginger ratatouille, to a winter root vegetable selection cooked in butter, or a black angus burger.The wine list is huge, including a good range of reds, whites, sparkling wines and roses. Most are French, with the exception of a few specially selected Spanish wines. Metro: Hotel, de Ville station, line 1. Map.
Des Gars dans la Cuisine
72, rue Vieille du Temple
Paris 75004 France
Des gars dans la cuisine is in Le Marais
Bofinger, an affordable brasserie
In between Le Marais and Opéra Bastille both at walking distance, Bofinger is one of the best Paris brasseries.
The history of Bofinger dates back to 1864, when Frédéric Bofinger opened this brewery. It was the first Parisian establishment where draft beer was served, hence its name Brasserie. In 1919, Brasserie Bofinger adorned itself with an exceptional Art Nouveau setting.
Bofinger serves exemplary seafood, one of the best sauerkraut in Paris, and other tasty dishes and desserts. Extensive wine list from Alsace and all regions of France. Courteous and efficient service.
Menu at 33 euros and formula at 19.90 euros at lunch.
Bofinger
5-7, rue de la Bastille
Paris 75004 France
Bofinger is an affordable brasserie
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