Passage Brady and Little India in Paris: Indian restaurants, covered arcade and the La Chapelle area
Passage Brady is a covered arcade in the 10th arrondissement, opened in 1828, and the heart of Paris's "Little India": Indian restaurants, grocers, sari shops and spice stalls. The glass-roofed section links 46 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis to boulevard de Strasbourg. The arcade has been a listed historic monument since 2002 (source: Live the World). Free entry; half an hour to walk it, an hour and a half with a meal. We found no prices: menus vary from one restaurant to the next.
Highlights
The glass roof and shop signs
The covered gallery mixes Indian, Pakistani and Mauritian restaurants, grocers and hairdressers; the smell of spices leads the way.
The La Chapelle area
Further north, around rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis and rue Philippe-de-Girard, is the Tamil quarter with grocers and clothes shops; sources place the largest concentration of Indian restaurants in Paris there, after Passage Brady.
Practical info
Tips
- Have lunch here rather than dinner for moderately priced set menus; most restaurants display their menu at the entrance. The arcade's Indian restaurants are first of all popular with locals: ask for the dishes of the day. For similar neighbourhoods see our food tour: which offer to choose, and for the nearby canal, the Canal Saint-Martin.
How to get there
46 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis, 75010 Paris. Metro Château d'Eau (line 4) or Strasbourg–Saint-Denis (lines 4, 8, 9); sources cite one or the other, both are a few minutes away. For La Chapelle: metro La Chapelle (line 2).
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