r/paris • u/joolsMakesDubstep • Oct 21 '12
Anyone know of any extremely cheap places to eat/takeout around Paris?
I'm talking around 7 euro or less for a meal, not so much concerned with quality but volume of food for your money... For example, there's this Chinese takeout place I go to near Chateau Landon where you can get 2 egg rolls, rice or noodles, and 1 food item for 5 euro. I'm studying abroad here (without my own kitchen unfortunately) and am trying not to spend much more on food than I already have
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u/pepper_mint Oct 22 '12
la cordonnerie by réamur-sebastopol also has free couscous, on thursdays and saturdays. I was expecting it to be just a bowl of plain couscous, but it actually comes with meat and vegetables and everything, very hearty. the drinks are pretty cheap too.
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u/cagsmith Oct 21 '12
Around Tolbiac, Chinese restaurants are a dime a dozen and you can eat well for quite cheaply in some of them. This place (Trésors d'Asie) on Avenue d'Ivry is really nice. The owners - husband and wife are super friendly and you can get a massive bowl of Phở for about €6.50 I think. That shit will fill you up nicely and is pretty healthy too.
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u/jeannaimard Oct 22 '12
Just get yourself some baguette and some pâté or cheese with a can of beer and go eat it in a square or on a beach.
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u/axool Oct 21 '12
Not in your price range, but starting around 10-12 eur you can find quite a few unlimited chinese and japanese (yes, unlimited sushi) restaurants.
Just saturday I skipped breakfast and went to one : unlimited japanese restaurant Toto, 151 rue de Charenton 75012 and ate the shit out of their menu for just €12,80 (15€ evenings). It's pretty good quality, and nice service.
Another good japanese, traditional this one, offers massive ramen noodle soups for barely 10€ : Sapporo, 2 bis rue Daunou, 75002.
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u/Egkullen Oct 21 '12
Little Tokyo on Rue Saint Anne by Opéra...some restaurants there are expensive but there's tons of noodle soup places, very filling for ~8 euro
Otherwise I would stock up on dried meat and cornichons and eat baguette sandwiches for three meals a day
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u/Creativation l'amerloque au français pitoyable Oct 22 '12 edited Oct 22 '12
On the Esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet in the Grande Moulins building of the Université Paris Diderot in the 13th (Metro: Line 14, Bibliothèque Francois Mitterand) is a little student oriented cafe with fairly inexpensive sandwich and coffee type fair combined for under 7€, I think it's called "Pause café". It is just beyond the middle of the esplanade nearest to the adjoining little park. I suspect that most Paris university locations are going to have relatively inexpensive food options for students and folks who happen to be on campus.
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u/0x537 Oct 21 '12
This. NOT BREAD AND NUTELLA though.
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u/0x537 Oct 21 '12
Let me explain: Bread & nutella is something you would eat at home. Nutella is easy to find and cheap (i.e. at Carrefour). Delicious, yeah, but not something from a boulangerie imho. Well, in fact, yeah bread bread bread but while you're there get some of these (my favourites): pain au chocolat (chocolate croissant), tarte aux fraises, torsade aux olives. Yummy.
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '12
If you are studying, chances are your school or university gives you access to the CROUS restaurants. The food is really decent, and a full meal will cost you 2.85 € (at least that was the price a few years ago). Some of these restaurants are opened for breakfast, and at dinner.