How to sternly save on food in Paris

To write this post I was pushed by several entries in this community that the food is expensive in Paris.

In general, this post was thoughtful as a long-beautiful list of places where you can eat without killing the budget, with addresses and photos, but for now, I will reach my legs, hands and a camera ... While rather a list of general recommendations:


  • on removal cheaper. In bakery, coffee shops and some kiosks, you can eat behind the proposed tables, and you can take a removal. In some places, the difference is twice: I prefer to pay 1 euro for the croissant, instead of two, 3.40 per salad instead of 7, etc. "On the removal" is denoted by "à Emporter", you need to look carefully in the menu.
  • "business lunch" cheaper. Most restaurants, cafes, bakery, snack bars in the daytime are offered the so-called Formule or Menu. Usually they include the main dish / sandwich, dessert and drink. There may be several versions and, depending on the cost, the drink will vary (volume, coffee or simply gas gas), the value of the dessert, the composition of the main dish.
  • look for cooking, Traiteur. Cheapest - Chinese, Traiteur Asiatique. Inside, they are always the same: chicken, meat or fish / shrimp with different sauces, several types of noodles, vegetables and salads. Most often, you will be offered and the type of so-called Bobun: a half-mountain bowl of hot broth with noodles, meat and vegetables. Such a mission can be asleep to dinner, and it is 5 euros. Yes, it has nothing to do with French cuisine. Cheap and angry.


Cooking is also Greek, French, Lebanese - what kind of please!

  • evaluate your hunger, or Saintwich Satshchika Maine. Somewhere sandwich is a half-breaster with a slicer of ham, somewhere in baguettes with vegetables, sauces, fillers, etc. But if you can feed the miniature girls with such a sandwich, then less miniature girls, as well as hungry after a long walking men will not calm down.
  • avoid tourist areas. On Montmartre, where I spend a lot of time now, one pancake with a nutel is worth a 3.50 euros. In a pancake on the street Muftar Blinn, weighing 300-400 grams with baked eggplants, cheese, salad, tomatoes worth 5. In the first case, you just beat yourself, in the second calmly go to dinner.
  • buy water in advance Or carry a blank bottle with it. Everything is simple here: the water in the large supermarket at the metro is worth it, let's say, 70 cents per liter / a half. Little water bottle Sacre-Ker costs two euros. At the same time, it is necessary to distinguish between different monopa dale and small karefours with their major comrades. The more the store is the lower the price inside. In Paris, there are also many drinking fountains - of which you can also drink) in restaurants and cafes you can ask for a decanter of water - too, for free.

Food in Paris is expensive, much more than the same Barcelona, \u200b\u200bbut still these costs can be significantly reduced, if you try a little.

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