Paris Food Markets and Streets Worth the Walk
The places these walks actually stop at, with the opening hours the city publishes and none that it does not. Four of the six are shopping streets rather than scheduled markets, which means every shop on them sets its own hours — so this page gives you the day, not the minute.
Marché des Enfants Rouges, founded 1615
Where: 39 rue de Bretagne, 75003, in Le Marais
When: Tuesday to Saturday mornings and afternoons, Sunday morning, closed Monday (paris.fr, checked 2026-09-13)
What it is for: The oldest covered market in Paris, listed as a monument historique in 1982. Under one roof: produce stalls, a cheesemonger, and cooked-food counters that have made it a lunch destination in its own right.
On a tour: The Original Food Tours Marais walk starts at its door, and the Devour route stops inside.
Marché Saint-Germain
Where: 4/6 rue Lobineau, 75006, on the Left Bank
When: Tuesday to Saturday 08:00–20:00, Sunday 08:00–13:30, closed Monday (paris.fr, checked 2026-09-13)
What it is for: A covered market most visitors walk past, a minute from the Boulevard Saint-Germain. Smaller and quieter than the Enfants Rouges, and open far later into the evening.
On a tour: A stop on the Do Eat Better Saint-Germain walk.
Rue Mouffetard
Where: 75005, running down from the Place de la Contrescarpe
When: A market street rather than a scheduled market: each shop sets its own hours, and no official page publishes a single opening time for the street. Most trade is Tuesday to Sunday morning.
What it is for: One of the oldest market streets in Paris, narrow, sloping and lined with fromageries, bakeries and traiteurs rather than stalls.
On a tour: The spine of the Do Eat Better Latin Quarter walk.
Rue Montorgueil and Rue du Nil
Where: 75001 and 75002, a few minutes north of the Louvre
When: Pedestrianised, and again no single official opening time — these are shops, not stalls.
What it is for: Montorgueil is a pedestrianised food street with cafe terraces down the middle of it. The Rue du Nil, one turning away, is a very short street that has become a concentrated food destination.
On a tour: The morning pastry walk finishes on the Rue du Nil; the two-hour express Marais walk works this quarter instead of the Marais.
Rue des Rosiers
Where: 75004, in the heart of Le Marais
When: Pedestrianised since 2006. Shop hours vary, and many close on Saturday for Shabbat rather than on Monday.
What it is for: The spine of the historic Jewish quarter, and the one street in Paris where a food tour hands you a falafel. Bakeries, delicatessens and counters, most of them narrow and most of them busy.
On a tour: Several listings put a handmade falafel here, and the NO DIET CLUB walk meets outside a patisserie on this street.
Going on a Monday, and what is shut
Paris food markets close city-wide on Mondays, and also on 1 January, 1 May and 25 December. That is the city’s own rule for its scheduled marchés, published on paris.fr, and it covers both the covered halls above.
It does not cover the shopping streets. Individual bakeries, fromageries and traiteurs on Mouffetard, Montorgueil and the Rue des Rosiers set their own days, and many open on Monday precisely because the markets do not.
So a Monday walk is not a wasted one — it just leans on shops rather than stalls. If a market hall is the thing you came for, book Tuesday to Sunday.
Want a guide who knows which counter is good?
Every walk here names the quarter it works and what the fare covers.
What you will be handed at these addresses is defined on the dish list, and which quarter suits you is set out quarter by quarter. The walks that stop here are on the Paris Food Tours grid.