Sur Les Quais is located in the covered market Marché Beauvau in Paris’ 12th arrondissement (it is adjacent to the marché d’Aligre farmers’ market.) It sells quality regional products such as Spanish chorizo, lomo, jamón serrano, salchichon or the gourmet Ortiz canned tuna; Mediterranean first cold press olive oils (you can fill up your own bottle); mustards, spices, pain d’épices, artisan ice-creams… But what keeps me going to Sur Les Quais are the excellent tapenades, especially the green ones (€2,75/100g): lemon tapenade, basil tapenade, cilantro tapenade…

When shopping at Sur Les Quais do not miss the Graineterie du Marché, the great chocolate store Goût, Thé et Chocolat or my favorite wine shop in the Aligre neighborhood: Les Crus du Soleil.

Sur Les Quais
Marché Couvert Beauvau
Place d’Aligre
75012 Paris
tel: 01.43.43.03.16
Metro: Ledru-Rollin, Faidherbe-Chaligny

Tu-F: 9.30am-1pm / 4.30pm-7.30pm (only from 9.30am-1pm on Thursday)
Sat: 9.30am-1.30pm / 4pm-7.30pm
Sun: 9.30am-2pm
Closed on Monday and Thursday afternoon.

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I was looking in vain for some hard-to-find smoked jalapenos peppers when I stumbled upon l’Epicerie de Bruno. If you are looking for some chipotle chiles in Paris, l’Epicerie de Bruno has them. It is a great little store who sells all sorts of spices from all over the world (Iranian saffron, bbq spices, balti masala, Argentinian chimichuri, habanero chile, ancho chile, mola chile, piquin chile, niora chila…), as well as lots of specialty salts and peppers, herbs (avocado leaves, hora santa leaves, hibiscus leaves, hyssop leaves, dried Thai basil…), specialty sugars (rose petal sugar, maple sugar, unrefined Bolivian sugar cane, palm sugar, Muscovado sugar…), specialty rice (squid ink risotto, Carnaroli rice, riz-au-lait, sushi rice…) Last but not least, are you looking for Allspice in Paris (Piment de la Jamaïque in French)? Search no further, head for l’Épicerie de Bruno. Now you can go home and make some proper hot apple cider!
All of l’Épicerie de Bruno’s goods are featured on the store’s website and can be purchased online.

L’Epicerie de Bruno
30 Rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris
tel: 01.53.40.87.33
Metro: Etienne Marcel

Tu-Sat: 10.30am-7.30pm
(The shop will be open in December on Sunday 6, 13, 20)

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Located on the famous Place d’Aligre, famous for its 6-day/week farmers’ market, La Graineterie du Marché in Paris is a specialty store that opened in 1895. It’s one of my favorite boutiques in the city because it makes me feel like I’m in the countryside, and reminds me of summer vacations at my grandparents’ in a small village in the west of France. When you walk in La Graineterie du Marché it seems as if you were entering a different time—it has the look and feel of a postwar shop with an Almodovar movie color scheme. Today the shop still sells a small selection of seeds (they can be found in the back room along with terracotta pots, glass jars and metal scoops) and some aromatic plants but mainly what you’ll find there are grains, specialty flours, spices, pasta, dried fruits, teas, a great selection of artisan jams and some old school candies such as the Pierrot Gourmand lollipop and the Carambar.

La Graineterie du Marché
8 Place d’Aligre
75012 Paris
tel: 01.43.43.22.64
Metro: Faidherbe-Chaligny, Ledru-Rollin

Tu-Sun: 9am-1pm / 4pm-7pm
Closed on Monday

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Located behind Paris’ town hall, l’ Hotel-de-Ville, IZRAEL is like Ali Baba’s cave, a place full of culinary treasures. Spices, condiments, olives, pickled dills, dried fruits and nuts, canned goods, teas, liquors… IZRAEL sells food from the five continents. Some of their goods are really hard to find in Paris and finding out whether the store carried spicy paprika wasn’t a sufficient reason for me to go there - to my delight it turns out I can find both Patrón tequila and pimentón picante.

IZRAEL
30 Rue François Miron
75004 Paris
tel: 01.42.72.66.23
Metro: Hotel-de-Ville

Tu-F: 9.30am-1pm / 2.30pm-7pm
Sat: 9am-7pm
Closed on Sunday and Monday

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