Where to eat at and around Le Pigalle
You are at 9 Rue Frochot, a short street of bars running south from Place Pigalle, with the Métro 2 minutes away and the food streets of South Pigalle and the Abbesses all around. The ground floor is the hotel's own restaurant and bar: the kitchen opens at 7am and serves until 11pm from Sunday to Wednesday and until 2am from Thursday to Saturday, with a night menu from 11pm to 7am and room service around the clock, and the wine list takes in a selection of natural wines. Next door at No. 7, Café Pigalle pours espresso and filter coffee from 8.30am on weekdays and 9am at weekends until 6pm, and two doors along, Chambre 01, the hotel's red cocktail bar, opens at 6pm from Tuesday to Saturday. Outside, within nine minutes on foot, are a bouillon, a bistro, a tea room in a museum garden, a prize-winning baker, a one-star sushi counter, a Jura wine bar and an old Montmartre brasserie.
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- 2 min walk
Bouillon: French classics, fast and cheap · €
A 2017 revival of the 19th-century Paris bouillon, traditional French food served fast and cheap, with 200 seats in the room and 100 more on the balcony. The autumn 2026 menu runs from œufs mayonnaise at €2.50 and onion soup at €3.90 to bœuf bourguignon at €12.20 and steak frites with pepper sauce at €12.60, with riz au lait at €2.80 to finish. It serves without a break from noon to midnight every day, from 11.30am at weekends. Book online for two to twelve, or join the queue; American Express is not accepted.
Reserve ahead22 Boulevard de Clichy
- 4 min walk
Bistro with a €45 set menu · €€
Franck Baranger's bistro under a red awning between Pigalle and Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, doing updated French classics without chasing fashion. The set menu is €45, with dishes such as squid tartare with cuttlefish ink, roast veal with smoked potato purée and a Grand Marnier soufflé with salted butter caramel, and a fairly priced wine list. Lunch runs from 12.30pm to 2pm and dinner from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, Monday to Friday only; it is closed at weekends and for three weeks in August. Book, and note that tables booked for 7.30pm or 7.45pm are needed back at 9.15pm.
Reserve ahead3 Rue Victor Massé
Tea room in a museum garden · €€
Through the cobbled courtyard of the house where the painter Ary Scheffer held his Friday salons from 1831 to 1858, for Delacroix, Liszt, Chopin and Dickens among others, Rose Bakery runs a tea room in the glasshouse facing the garden. The cooking is organic and seasonal and changes daily: salads, quiches, cakes, carrot cake and scones. It is open from 10am to 5.30pm, Tuesday to Sunday, takes no bookings and closes on Monday with the museum, whose permanent collection is free to visit.
Walk in16 Rue Chaptal
- 7 min walk
Bakery with a prize-winning baguette · €
Djibril Bodian's bakery on the climb towards the Place des Abbesses. He has twice won the prize for the best baguette in Paris, and his bread has been served at the President's table. It opens at 7am and closes at 8pm, Thursday to Monday, and is closed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Stop for a baguette and something for the morning on the way up to Montmartre, or for the makings of a picnic on the hill.
Walk in38 Rue des Abbesses
- 7 min walk
One-star sushi counter · €€€€
A seven-metre counter cut from a single piece of hinoki under an origami ceiling, with one MICHELIN star in the 2026 guide. Shunei Kimura won the star in 2022, three months before he died; his widow Chizuko Kimura and the sushi master Takeshi Morooka, formerly of Ginza Onodera, won it back in 2025. Dinner runs Tuesday to Saturday in two sittings, at 7pm and 9.30pm, with lunch on Saturday: the omakase is €250, the sashimi and nigiri menu €200 and Saturday lunch €150. Book online; a card holds the seat, and changes within 48 hours cost €200 a head.
Book well ahead: tables go weeks out3 Rue Audran
- 9 min walk
Jura wine bar · €€
A wine bar given over to the Jura: vin jaune, Macvin, Crémant du Jura, light Poulsard and Trousseau, oxidative Savagnin, and natural wines alongside. The food comes from the same hills: Comté aged 12 to 30 months at €9 to €12 a plate, Morbier, a croque-monsieur made with Comté at €18, vol-au-vent with morels and Morteau sausage at €19, and a crème brûlée scented with absinthe at €8. A 6 cl glass of vin jaune is €15. It opens from 7pm, Tuesday to Saturday, and is closed on Sunday and Monday.
Reserve ahead44 Rue Rodier
- 9 min walk
Montmartre brasserie and oyster bar · €€€
On Rue des Abbesses since 1889, when it opened as a small hotel with a café downstairs, and in the hands of the Campion family, from the Aveyron, since 1965; seafood became the house speciality under the son, Thierry Campion. Order six Fines de Cancale at €21 or six Gillardeau at €29.40, a seafood plate at €39 or the full Plateau Mascotte at €157, with six organic escargots at €15. The kitchen serves without a break through the day, with a lunch formula on weekdays; book for dinner.
Reserve ahead52 Rue des Abbesses
Breakfast
Breakfast is served in the ground-floor restaurant, or in your room, from 7am until 4pm, from the menu rather than a buffet. A croissant with the house jam or a pain au chocolat is €4, baguette with butter and jam €5, an omelette €10, house granola with fresh fruit and Greek yoghurt €11, banana pancakes €12, and avocado toast with a soft-boiled egg or scrambled eggs with bacon and avocado €14; the bread is from Thierry Breton, the coffee from Lomi and the tea from Kodama, and the croissants come from a bakery nearby. Breakfast is paid for dish by dish unless your rate includes it. Next door, Café Pigalle does espresso from €2.50, financiers and babka from 8.30am on weekdays and 9am at weekends. For a baguette at 7am, Le Grenier à Pain on Rue des Abbesses is seven minutes up the hill, closed on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Good questions about Le Pigalle
Where can I eat near Le Pigalle?
You are at 9 Rue Frochot, a short street of bars running south from Place Pigalle, with the Métro 2 minutes away and the food streets of South Pigalle and the Abbesses all around. The ground floor is the hotel's own restaurant and bar: the kitchen opens at 7am and serves until 11pm from Sunday to Wednesday and until 2am from Thursday to Saturday, with a night menu from 11pm to 7am and room service around the clock, and the wine list takes in a selection of natural wines. Next door at No. 7, Café Pigalle pours espresso and filter coffee from 8.30am on weekdays and 9am at weekends until 6pm, and two doors along, Chambre 01, the hotel's red cocktail bar, opens at 6pm from Tuesday to Saturday. Outside, within nine minutes on foot, are a bouillon, a bistro, a tea room in a museum garden, a prize-winning baker, a one-star sushi counter, a Jura wine bar and an old Montmartre brasserie. Bouillon Pigalle, 2 min walk. Le Pantruche, 4 min walk. Rose Bakery at the Musée de la Vie romantique, 6 min walk.
Our verdict
Le Pigalle is a Paris hotel for people who want a neighbourhood more than the sights, at a fraction of what the grand hotels ask. Book a Pigalle 21 for the records and pack earplugs for Friday and Saturday.
Last checked: October 2026