Paris I: Spécialités Libanaises

From my last trip to Paris the best tip I can give is Noura, recommended by my dearest Magna and Magnvs . Magna and Magnus work for a Telecom Company located in Paris downtown, at the Opéra District. They have few time to have lunch and can't afford the "Café de la Paix" everyday, so they investigated and discovered... a libanaise fast-food. Weird? Wonderful.

At 29, bd des Italiens, really close to the Opéra, there's a shelter for those stressed out workers who are fed up with hamburgers and traditional chicken sandwiches. You can choose between the more expensive brasserie (for Japaneese travellers and other wealthy people) or the cheap fast-food, which was our choice.

There are different choices and menus to take. Mine was the "Menu fraicheur" at 10'75 €, and among the different choices I ate a Chawarma viande (libanaise sandwich, with veal and vegetables), a Tabboulé (a salad with persil, wheat, tomatoes, mint, onions, lemon and olive oil; one of the best tabboulé I've ever had) and a Diet Coke. Not huge, but enough (I couldn't imagine myself going up to Notre Dame's Tower after a big meal). Pay attention to the desserts, real sweet libanaise pastry, as the Baklawa, with almonds, pistachio or pine nuts.

Other specialities from Libanon can be taken, such as Falafel, Moussakaa or Hommos.

You'll also find Noura at 121 bd de Montparnasse and 27 avenue Marceau.