While many Paris neighborhoods trade on their clichés — the bourgeois elegance of Saint-Germain, the hipper-than-hip culture of the Canal Saint-Martin — Batignolles remains harder to pin down. Located on the northern side of the 17th Arrondissement, the area was slated to be the Olympic Village for the 2012 bid that Paris failed to win. Since then, it has done some soul-searching. Devoid of major monuments, Batignolles is largely tourist-free, and though it has its share of new boutiques and hip eateries, it’s not yet a destination for the city’s scenesters. As such, it feels like the “real” Paris, although that’s likely to change: 3,400 new residences are slated to be built in 2015. But for now, Batignolles is coming up at its own relaxed pace.
Anna Brones, founder of Foodie Underground, describes a quintessential crawl through her neighborhood.
Via: Batignolles: An Outer-Paris Neighborhood Slowly Becoming In
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