L'Hotel du Nord ~ Paris

L’Hotel du Nord is a slick new old restaurant with yummy plates and classic, white-tiled interior complete with wooden bar and uban atmosphere. If any of the places situated along the picturesque Canal St. Martin provide the perfect setting for a romantic dinner for two, then this is it. Also highly recommended for a late-night dessert on a balmy summer evening..

Even if the adventure of the hotel du Nord officially started in 1885 its history cannot be separated from the Canal St Martin’s one. Created by Napoléon to feed Paris in water and to cut the large loop of the river Seine hardly navigable, this imitation of river is 4,5 km long. In 1825 it was surrounded by some docks, bargemen’s bistros and streetwalkers hanging their despair to the thin iron bridges. Through those precarious destinies of thousands of Parisians who have found far from its Majesty the Seine some new horizons on its banks, we can imagine that the Hôtel du Nord was the pied-à-terre, the meeting point for the workers and the landlubbers came to get some rest and comfort for a night or a meal. From reaches to locks, the Canal and its hotel tell us the story of a break in the city: between the fashionable districts from the west and the hard daily life of the eastern neighbourhoods. At that time the Hôtel du Nord was nicknamed “l’hôtel des poux Volants” ( “The Hotel of the flying louses”).

 102 quai de jemmapes 75010 paris

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