"Open for: Breakfast, lunch, and dinnerPrice range: $$A working-class neighborhood on the northeastern edge of the city (and the birthplace of Édith Piaf), Belleville is one of the most interesting food neighborhoods in Paris. There, brother-and-sister team Léa and Louis-Marie Fleuriot run this very affordable modern bistro in a former corner cafe. While she works the kitchen, he runs the dining room, and together they offer the kind of market-driven cooking that exemplifies the area. The petroleum-blue facade has big picture windows, which let light in on the indigo, zinc-topped service bar, open kitchen, and wooden tables laid with cloth napkins and Opinel knives. The chalkboard menu changes daily but runs to dishes like mussels in creamy, saffron-spiked bisque, haddock in coriander court bouillon with mushrooms and potato puree, and egg-rich, caramel sauce-lashed creme caramel. Located in the 19th arrondissement.Vibe check: Relatively few tourists make their way out to this corner of Paris." - Alexander Lobrano
