Rue des Martyrs

Rue des Martyrs has become one of my favorite streets in Paris.

Located in between the 9e and 18e arrondissements and linking

Notre Dame de Lorette and Sacré Coeur, Rue des Martyrs has much to

offer to the sight and smell. It is primarily lined with gourmet cafés, boulangeries, 

epiceries, and speciality food shops, which all have kept their traditional charm

over the course of time. These shops display their products

in an artistic fashion and pay much attention to detail and placement. 

Given how close it was to my work, I often visited this street, 

during my lunch break, ate at several of its cafés and boulangeries, and marveled 

at its window displays. 

My positive experiences here have inspired me to write a

a blog featuring this street, and I hope that any reader 

reading this blog at present also visits this street upon his/her next visit to Paris.

The street is about half a mile and is uphill

A very popular Greek speciality store that offered
prepared Greek dishes, sauces, olives, meats, and very fresh pita

Palais des Thès offered free samples
of their fruit-infused teas to the tea and introduced
a new flavor each day 

A charming kid's candy and birthday store

One of the chicest boulangeries in Paris 

They used only the finest, freshest, and lightest ingredients for
their patisseries 

A French speciality food store 

I often ate at this wonderful boulangerie during lunch and
particularly liked their focaccia sandwiches 

The name of a cute, clothing store that offered a
chic array of scarves, which, in retrospect, I should
have bought!

A speciality, honey shop

A Corsican speciality food store

Another well-known boulangerie 

A specialty wine shop 

The view from half-way up the street

The sign outside the wine shop reads:
"Your wine cave NYSA remains open all of summer;
a day without wine is a day without sun!"
Je suis d'accord!

A fromagerie from Brittany 

One of my lunches along this street at La Petite Bretonne:
A ham, spinarch, and egg galette, a green salad, cider, and a caramel crepe all
for 12 euros 

One of the many, small supermarkets offering
the fruits of the season, meaning fresh
strawberries, peaches, and cherries!