I had no idea this was a chain. The prices were reasonable and the portions were hearty. So nice to see a great selection of Italian wines. If you need an Italian fix, this place has you covered. read more

4.5 stars. Bocci! Bowl-me-over good Italian food. My mom was visiting me in Paris when we stumbled upon this restaurant while walking along the canal one evening. The weather was beautiful, and all of the cafés along the canal were packed, so we opted for one where we could still sit outside, albeit with less of a view. This is the kind of place that many locals would walk right by. It's quite new on the inside and doesn't have the typical "charm" (read: cramped, dirty bathrooms and inattentive wait staff) of some of the other places in the neighborhood. It is a chain restaurant with a spick and span interior, but doesn't feel like a tourist trap. The first thing I noticed right off the bat was that the menu was almost half vegetarian. My mom obliged me by ordering a pasta with mushrooms and a tomato cream sauce and I ordered a large veggie antipasto salad. The two dishes were huge and when shared between the two of us, more than enough food. The presentation was wonderful and the taste knocked me over. Nearly as good as the pasta I had while in Florence a few years back. This place is truly Italian, right down to it's vino. My mom attempted to order a glass of Côtes du Rhone (a wine she came to love on her trip to Paris - props to mom for learning her French wine!), but was promptly denied. Not because this place didn't happen to have a Côtes du Rhone, but because they don't "do" French wine. In fact, I almost laughed out loud at the waiter when he told my mom in a very heavy French-accented English and with a bit of sass "we only have Italian wine here, madame." I've got to say, that was the first time and possibly the only time I'm going to hear a French person, and specifically a French waiter at a restaurant in France, get in a bit of a huff that someone might order a glass of French wine. So we drank Italian wine - and it was good. All in all, a taste sensation. P.S. This place has a great downstairs that I assume could be rented for private soirées and such. read more

Fuxia - Italian Near Me - Paris, 75

Setting is lovely; nice deli / cafe, nestled under a canopy of green on a tree-lined street. Ordered a salad each and they were tasty, robust, tasty! He had salmon with poached egg salad, I had grilled aubergine, courgette, sun-dried tomatoes etc. Both had healthy (?!) shavings of parmesan, too. Yummy. I assumed the vegetables on my salad would have been freshly grilled but were preserved in oil so a little rich but, all the same, very tasty. read more

Fuxia - No such thing as JUST a salad! - Italian Near Me - Paris, 75

Eating out in Paris, one quickly tires of the standard French repertoire and starts seeking other culinary explorations. I mean, if this is such a foodie haven, one ought to be able to find great food on every corner, right? Well, um, not actually. One learns to read the menus with a more discerning eye the longer one stays and then it becomes necessary to start veering off the prix fixe formula menus and seeing what the kitchens are capable of. Our dining experience at Fuxia was just that: an Italian meal beyond the bland ubiquitous pizza we've seen everywhere and tried but once and only once, thank you very much! We'd made plans to meet a friend for drinks nearby in the early evening, but found ourselves wanting a full on meal at around 4:00 on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in the even more gorgeous Canal St. Martin neighborhood. Turned away at a few other places because they were between lunch and dinner, we were happily received at Fuxia, a wine bar with an Italian menu and Indian men preparing everything in the kitchen! The menu was not expensive for Paris, but it certainly offered up some tantalizing options, starting with the exceptional "antipasti mar e tierra," which consisted of quick cooked squid, grilled courgettes (zucchini) a scapece (sweet and sour), boconcini, artichokes, and a light salad of baby greens and sliced tomato. Two things have surprised me about the everyday food scene here in Paris: the prevalence of canned black olives and supermarket quality tomatoes! You'd think no restaurant would have the temerity to serve either but we may give the Parisians too much credit for their discerning palettes. The sliced tomatoes on this antipasti were delicious and so made up for the boring black olives for our famished party of three. Our main courses were each pretty good. I especially liked my pappardelle with arugula and bresaola, dressed simply with olive oil and garnished with parmesan shavings. My partner's shrimp dish in a sauce verdure of tomatoes, eggplant, etc was tasty even if the shrimp were slightly overcooked. Our third friend had beef lasagna with a nice side salad of its own. Enjoying it all with a slightly effervescent rose made for the perfect meal on the perfect afternoon in a neighborhood we wouldn't have discovered but for the fact that the friend we were meeting later lives just 5 minutes away. read more

Great location, big space with lots of seating and neutral stylish decor. A fair bit of outside seating too, on a popular and happening street off the canal. And the menu is varied too. We actually came here the night before the marathon so our runner friends could stock up on carbohydrates - and they did just that with the tasty and generous pasta portions. I tried the honey chicken pappardelle and it was excellent. The bruschettas are huge and different from your usual Italian restaurant offerings - highly recommended! I liked that they had their own wines stocked too. read more

TL;DR: OMG this is such good Italian food, I'm so sad I won't find this in America EVER again. Don't let the "chain" status fool you, they produce quality food that I would gladly pay for over and over again. If you're there when prawns are offered, order the Gamberi Et Parpadelle, heavenly! First of all, I did NOT know this was a chain restaurant. Although there wasn't really any indication that it would be. When I think chain I think of KFC, Applebees, TGIFs, you know, the obvious ones. This particular restaurant was situated in one of the more heavily foot traffic areas of Canal St Martin. I was first drawn in by how much "space" they had. I put "space" in quotations because if you are more than six inches apart from your neighbor, in Paris, that's a lot of space in these dine-in cafes. At this point in our travel through Europe, my broken high school French had endured many blank stares and confusion, what's another disappointment? I ordered in French and our water just smiled. "I speak English" she politely said. I was relieved. Our entire table ordered and we were ready to ride the culinary high we were currently on. "I'd like the Beef Tartare for starters and for the main course Gamberi et Parpadelle". The menu seems seasonal because when I try to find the ingredients of this dish offered at this location, there's none. Which is a good problem to have, it just means that fresh seasonal ingredients are only being used. The Beef Tartare. For the amateur this is basically raw ground beef tossed in herbs and spices with a mixed green salad on the side and hot potato wedges. I know, it sounds scary, even for an adventurous person like me I was hesitant. That hesitancy grew even more apparent when the dish arrived at our table. I thought it would be a quaint little mound of raw spiced meat, nope it was a mound, like the size of my fist that swelled up after a bee sting huge. Luckily I was sharing. I closed my eyes and thought, this is just like eating sushi, I'll be fine. I took the first bite. I chewed cautiously, then as the flavors began to mix it was absolutely delectable! There's no raw meat after taste if that's what you're worried about. Take a spoonful of the tartare, fork some salad, and eat a hot potato wedge. It's delicious, and a taste unlike I've ever experienced. 100% will order again if given the chance. The Gamberi et Parpadelle dish. First of all, FULL jumbo prawns that were clearly marinated and steeped in the sauce. It was a white sauce that was clearly infused with seafood stock because the seasoning and flavors were just absolutely mind-blowing. Fresh grilled zucchinis, wilted and perfectly sauteed mushrooms, grilled eggplant, and dotted with parsley overwhelms your senses. Then. My goodness that perfectly cooked pasta. I HAD NEVER KNOWN WHAT PERFECTLY COOKED PASTA TASTED LIKE. And I'm mad. Even in the more expensive restaurants in the states, my pasta is dry, sticky, clumpy, or is drowning in sauce. No ma'am/sir, NOT here. The parpadelle perfectly separates and the right amount of sauce adheres to the pasta. Every bite is just barely past "al dente". My favorite part? THE GENEROUS servings of jumbo shrimp still in its shell. Clearly NOT frozen. I had five of them. All shrimp needs to be served this way, JUST my opinion. FIVE of them in this dish and all perfectly cooked!. Perfectly plump, cooked pasta, a grilled veggie and sumptuous, juicy shrimp in one fork bite will make you wonder why you've been eating pasta wrong all your life. Well for me at least. My palate cleanser for this delicious meal? Proseco Mojitos. You read right. Fresh, clean, citrusy, and dangerously addictive. This is one of the more spacious restaurants in Paris, especially in the Canal St Martin area. Come with an appetite and don't let your lack of French scare you, make an attempt, then let your helpful waiter/waitress take it from there. read more

They took us as the kitchen closed. It was a delicious late night meal. Family of 4 with wine was around 50 euros. Would definitely return.

Tried to come here when the restaurant was half empty and the waiter told me it would be a 20 minute wait No thanks read more