20 Little Cities » Wine Bars http://20littlecities.com Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 11 May 2012 15:05:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Le siffleur de ballons in Paris: Wine, food, and apéromatchs! http://20littlecities.com/where-to-drink/le-siffleur-de-ballons-in-paris-wine-food-and-aperomatchs/ http://20littlecities.com/where-to-drink/le-siffleur-de-ballons-in-paris-wine-food-and-aperomatchs/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 13:14:30 +0000 admin http://20littlecities.com/?p=4940 The restaurant l’Ebauchoir opened a new space, a wine bar, across the street: Le siffleur de ballons. It is a place to eat, drink and buy wine (and other goodies such as terrines, vinegars, honey…) The dishes are simple but good (plate of charcuterie, sandwiches, soupes, salades…) and the prices range from as low as 5€ (the croque siffleur: ham, goat cheese, tomato and roquette) to 12€ (a plate of pata negra bellota ham); wines by the glass range from 3,50€ to 6€. Le siffleur de ballons is a great stop for a quick and simple lunch, for an apéro, to buy a sandwich to go or to buy a bottle or two.
Check out the saturday lunch “Apéromatch”: a wine tasting session consisting in comparing wines from either two different regions, countries, grape variety, vinification… For 18€ you try four different wines while eating cheese and charcuterie.

Le siffleur de ballons
34 rue de Citeaux
75012 Paris
tel: 01.58.51.14.04
Metro: Faidherbe-Chaligny, Reuilly-Diderot

Tu-Sat: 10.30am-3pm / 5.30pm-10pm
Closed on Sunday and Monday

]]> http://20littlecities.com/where-to-drink/le-siffleur-de-ballons-in-paris-wine-food-and-aperomatchs/feed/ 0 Le Baron Rouge in Paris: A casual well known wine bar around town. http://20littlecities.com/where-to-drink/le-baron-rouge-in-paris-a-casual-well-known-wine-bar-around-town/ http://20littlecities.com/where-to-drink/le-baron-rouge-in-paris-a-casual-well-known-wine-bar-around-town/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:43:27 +0000 admin http://20littlecities.com/?p=4024 If you want to mingle with a laid-back crowd—a mixture of blue and white-collar workers, young and old people, fashionable and less fashionable creatures, weirdos and mainstream Parisians—head for Le Baron Rouge. You can’t miss this place, there’s always a huge crowd spilling onto the street in the early evening (apéro time) or on Sunday mornings—there’s nothing like a glass of wine and a plate of charcuterie or a platter of oysters to start the day! The wines are very affordable and the plates of cheeses and charcuterie are generous and delicious. Sometimes the quality of a wine will be directly reflected in its price, but 3€ wasted on piquette (that’s French for cheap wine) is forgivable. It is Paris after all, and it’s hard to find such low prices in popular wine bars. It is also hard to find a table unless you come for a drink outside of drinking hours, so don’t expect to be comfortably seated. And if the only room you find to sip your wine is on the street then be ready to partake in some secondhand cigarette smoke while sharing the sidewalk with interesting looking people… Once I saw an older woman standing out there dressed up in a white leotard exhibiting a very nice body for her age and a pretty indecent camel toe. This alone was worth a stop.

Le Baron Rouge
1 Rue Théophile Roussel
75012 Paris
tel: 01.43.43.14.32
Metro: Ledru-Rollin

Tu-Sat: 10am-2pm / 5pm-10pm
Sun: 10am-4pm
Closed on Monday

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