Population of Paris
Ethnic Quarter and Restaurants

The metropolitan area has a population around 12 000 000.

That makes one of the most populated areas in all Europe.

Paris has few ethnic quarters: the Chinese, Indian, African, Greek and Arab. Go to visit them and discover the different cultures in Paris.

Markets, boutiques, restaurants

African Quarter

Called Little Africa or La Goutte d'Or located in the 18th arrondissement, between the boulevard Barbes and the street la Goutte d'or. Metro: Chateau Rouge. Shops and Market on rue Dejean products coming from the Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana...

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• rue Doudeauville
• rue Dejean
• rue des Poissonniers
• rue de Suez

Mini-Resto: rue des Poissoniers. Specialty of n'dole, gombos, an okra stew, Cameroon cuisine.

Restaurant Nioumre: 7 Rue Poissonniers Phone: 01 42 51 24 94. Food: yassa (spicy marinated chicken or Fish), Kandia soup...

Arab Quarter

Metro: Barbes. Small neighborhood of shops and the market of Barbes. The atmosphere is like Marrakech! The population of Paris has today Arabs, the largest ethnic minority in the country. Very nice building Institut du monde Arabe in the 5th arrondissement. Metro: Barbes-Rochechouart.

• Boulevard Barbes
• Boulevard de Rochechouart
• rue de la Goutte d'or
• rue Polonceau

Founti Agadir: 117 Rue Monge 5th arrondissement. Subway: Censier - Daubenton. Phone: 01 43 37 85 10. Open Mon-Sat 9am-6pm Food: tagine (food is cooked in a special pot) with lamb, chicken, quails; couscous (semolina wheat) royal (lamb, chicken, merguez), mechoui (roasted lamb).

Restaurant de La Mosquée de Paris: 39 Rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 5th arrondissement. Subway: Place Monge. Open 7 days a week, midday and evening. Food: brik (fried filled pastry) with egg tuna, tagines, couscous and oriental pastries, mint tea, maure coffee. Amazing decor.

Jewish Quarter

The population of Paris has a Jewish comunity in Le Marais 4th arrondissement. The rue des Rosiers in the Marais is mainly the center of the Jewish quarter. Not far the synagogue 10 rue Pavee.

Metro: Saint-Paul or Bastille

• rue des Rosiers
• rue des Francs Bourgeois
• rue du Roi de Sicile
• rue des Ecouffes
• Place des Vosges

Micky's Deli: 23 Rue Des Rosiers 4th arrondissement. Phone: 01.48.04.79.31 Metro: St Paul. Food: hot pastrami sandwich (delicatessen meat with beef), burgers.

L'As du Falafel: 34 Rue des Rosiers. Phone: 01 48 87 63 60. Metro: Saint-Paul. Open Mon-Thu,Sun 11am-11:30pm Food: fallafel

Greek Quarter

5th arrondissement. Metro: Saint-Michel

• rue de la Huchette
• rue Saint-Severin
• rue de la Harpe
• rue Xavier Privas

Mythos: 11 Rue de la Huchette 5th arrondissement. Metro: Saint-Michel. Food: moussaka (eggplant and tomato with layers of meat with white sauce and baked)

La Taverne Grecque: 8 Rue de la Huchette. Metro: Saint-Michel.

Indian Quarter

10th arrondissement. Metro: La Chapelle. Go to the passage Brady you'll find an atmosphere of India with shops for spices, restaurants...

• rue de Faubourg st-Denis
• boulevard de la Chapelle
• rue Louis Blanc
• rue Philippe de Girard

Pooja: 91 passage Prady. Open noon-3pm and 7pm-11pm. Authentic indian cuisine. Food: dhal (pulse of lentils)...

Chettinadu: 15 rue Cail. Metro: Gare du Nord.

Asian Quarter

The population of Paris includes chinese people in the 13th arrondissement. Metro: Place d'Italie or Tolbiac

• rue de Tolbiac
• Avenue de Choisy
• rue Beaudricourt
• Avenue d'Ivry

Restaurant Chine Massena: 13, place de Venetie. Tel : 01.45.83.98.88 Food: dim sum, noodle soup, seafood tray.

Rouammit & Huong Lan: 103 Avenue d'Ivry. Metro: tolbiac. Thai restaurant Sticky rice is very good.

Le Bambou: 70 Rue Baudricourt. Food: Pho

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