Butte-aux-Cailles

From Paris Hotels Reviews

Butte-aux-Cailles

Between boulevard Auguste – Blanqui and rue Babillot is the Butte-aux-Cailles, whose name can be translated picturesquely as the hill (butte) of the quails (calles), although there is more prosaic talk of Monsieur Cailles once having own land here. It’s pleasantly animated quarter, the main rue de la Butte-aux-Cailles cobbled and furnished with attractive lampposts, as well as the green Art Nouveau municipal drinking fountains donated to the city by the nineteenth century British art collector Sir Richard Wallace (see Wallace's Fountains). Alongside the old left – wing establishments – the bar La Folie en Téte at no. 33 and the restaurant Le Temps des Cerises at nos. 18 – 20 – are plenty of relaxed, youthful places to eat and drink till the small hours, making the one of the most attractive areas of Paris for low – key nightlife.

If you’re coming from métro Corvisart, cross the road and head straight through the passageway in the large apartment building opposite, then climb the steps that lead up through the small Brassaï gardens to rue des Cliq Diamants. Alternatively, it’s a short walk up rue Babillot from Place d’Italie.