I love this place! It's so efficiently organizing, and well stocked with lots of BIO goodies…read more Friendly staff, lots of delicious food to try, and explore. Thank you for helping me eat healthy!

We had just arrived and were kind of tired but needed something to eat. We were going to dinner…read moremuch later on but needed a snack right now. After looking around in the area, we came across Lucia e Marcela, a small pastry shop which was doing a brisk lunch business. They had everything-sweet and savory. It was most appealing and I am glad we found it. It is a small place, more take out than anything else. There are a small number of seats in the restaurant which are usually filled. I decided first to have an appetizing piece of pizza they had in the window as you come in. It was delicious. I then opted for a pan au chocolat and then I got an olive twist. There is a lot of help behind the counter so the wait is minimal and they will heat anything up for you. It was a delicious experience and my only regret is that we were only able to go their that one time, since we left the next day. Payment is cash or contactless although more people are using contactless but cash always seems to be faster, at least when I was on line there. I would recommend when you are in the 14th Arrondissement.

Everything looked so good and I was really disappointed, the salad was just green lettuce with few…read moretoppings on top and no dressing at all , asked for a sweet fromage blanc and it didn't have any sugar in it . The bread they gave was really good . Picture after I ate the little bit of avocado, mango and noodles on top .

If you read about Les Halles in Le Ventre de Paris (1873) by Emile Zola you would know of the place…read morewhere fresh food was wholesaled. Perhaps I was crazy to imagine a spectacular view of halls after halls of the fresh seafoods, meats or poultrys. It inspired me so much it sent us on a roadtrip from Belgium at 11 PM, we were running behind for Rungis that opened from 1-5 AM. We reached Rungis Marche International a city on its own at 2 AM. The market was just slowing awakening and alive with fresh food. We drove around these enormous buildings the size of convention centers, it was so confusing we had to consult the site map. The halls opened in cascading fashion 1 hall per hour we were told by the Chefs the seafood hall would open first. When we arrived I was literally speechless at the sheer number of wholesalers proudly displaying their seafood: fresh boxes of sea urchins, scallops on shells, trouts so fresh they were shining and live shrimps still jumping. At the poultry and game hall, fresh chickens/squab/ ducks/ pheasants/ rabbits/ were displayed. The poultry all cleaned except retaining the head and feather around the neck to show its freshness. The cases of foie gras, pates and charcuterie were just mouth wateringly attractive. We ventured into the Triperie where the organs, trotters and other stuff were sold. It was quite amazing to see the standard of hygiene and lack of foul smell you would imagine from a place as such. The same was for the meat hall it was clean and odorless - I never saw more beef, lamb or pork in my life!! I was glad to have made this trip.