BUT TRADITIONAL AND NEW SHOPS INTERTWINE

THERE IS ONLY ONE SUPERMARKET, NO CHAIN STORES, NO ADS, BUT A MIX OF SHOPS THAT ARE TRADITIONAL AND NEW 

 Stores that overflow with African produce are even more prevalent than coiffeurs:

Rue Doudeauville

Rue des Poissonniers

At the time when the regrettable fast-food appeared and across the street from it, a shop for organic, locally-grown produce sprang up...

Vivre(s)

39 bis rue de Doudeauville

Many of the stores have their own personalities: 

• African music and the smell of spices

Koyaka Market

47 rue Myhra

• A store so simple there is not even a name. 

• Farther on

New shops 

• Cheese

La Laiterie parisienne

   74 rue des Poissonniers

 

 

-- I'm surprised to see such a shop in this neighborhood. How do you get on? 

-- Fine! At Ramadan women come to borrow the pails we use for milk to present the (excellent) cooking they sell on the sidewalk.

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• Coffees and teas:

Brûlerie Barbès

14 rue des Poissonniers

A restaurant for watching a street that is full of activity:

  

Haïtian Mama 

20 rue Labat

Going back to the Barbès métro...

• Mothers and grandmothers sit next to the railings of the Square Léon park, selling products that they have prepared themselves:

"How much?" "One euro." -- "That's very little." --"But we don't pay taxes!" (They laugh.) They didn't want their pictures taken.

•  A block away from Barbès's frightening young men, a bar for artisanal beer suggests that co-existence is taken for granted.

Brasserie de la Goutte d'Or

28 rue de la Goutte d'Or

 

• Across the street:

Amiprimeur

10 rue Caplat

Minutes away,

the Maghrebin youths hang out at métro Barbès :  

At least from my outsider's view,

all goes well.

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