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Paris travel guide: Rue Mouffetard — gastronomy and restaurants

Paris trip in 2026, plan a meal by neighborhood

This Paris travel guide focuses on Rue Mouffetard: the gastronomic walk of the Latin Quarter. First choose the neighborhood you are in that day, and then decide what to eat. You can combine dining with fun. The areas and dining types that can be checked are organized here. The routes are editorial suggestions, not rankings of on-site tastings.

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Rue Mouffetard and Place de la Contrescarpe, Paris 5th arrondissement

What can I find to eat?

Restaurants and cafes are interlaced with butchers, fruit and vegetable shops, fish shops, cheese shops and bakeries, making it suitable to choose according to your interests on the day.

How to arrange a route

The Tourism Bureau lists Place Monge Station on Metro Line 7. You can combine a street walk with a stop at Place de la Contrescarpe into an editor-suggested route, and then choose a restaurant to dine at.

What kind of meal plan is suitable?

Don’t buy from every store just to see the whole street. Food purchases are suitable to be arranged according to the opening of the store during the day, and dinner depends on the restaurant's service hours; coffee and dinner do not need to occupy the same store.

Business hours and budget

There are no uniform restaurant opening hours in the neighborhood, nor are there uniform prices per person. After selecting a specific store, check the menu and service hours for lunch, dinner, dine-in, and takeout. Unverified current dish prices do not include estimated figures; subsequent restaurant introductions will include menu prices with dates on a store-by-store basis.