All right, this is Frenchie, Rue du Nil, in the 2nd arrondissement. This is my restaurant, and I'm just going to take you to my favorite places in Paris.
So, Du Pain et Des Idees, the best bread in Paris, the one we use for the restaurant and he does amazing viennoiserie, too. Let's go.
So, Christophe, what makes your bread so special?
The crust -- half a centimeter thick, crust and here; it's just a fireworks. (Yeah, just the caramelization.)
Without being burnt. This is the key. (It's on the edge, always.)
Well, guys, let's go La Tete dans les Olives and check some olive oil.
So, I love going to this place, because Cedric Casanova, the owner of La Tete dans les Olives, which literally means "the head in the olives,"
works with specific people in Sicily. And every product you're going to see here, there's a real human story behind it.
You can sample all of the products -- all the olive oil, because it's why [what] it's all about, olive oil,
but as well as, you know, sun-dried tomatoes, bottarga, dried tuna.
So here, we're at the bottom of Belleville.
Until 1860, there was a big wall that ran along here, which separated Paris over here from the suburbs, Belleville, on that side.
It was also a way to collect taxes, which meant that all of the goods inside of Paris were more expensive than on the outside,
so Belleville became very well known as a place where people could go and drink alcohol and party.
There are over 160 different nationalities that live here, today.
Up here is the Rue Denoyez. What this street has become well known for -- street art. This, constantly changing, so each time you come, you'll see different works of art.
There's nothing that stays here for very long.
Technically it would be illegal, but there are certain places where it's tolerated, but here it's encouraged.
Hi, I'm Mariama. I was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. I grew up in Cologne, Germany, and now I live in Paris, France. And I'm [a] singer-songwriter.
I wanted to take you to this area of Paris, which is called the Marais because it's my favorite.
They have a whole lot of vintage stores, here, and this is the most fun of all of them because you weigh your clothes and you pay them by the kilo.
That's why it's called The Kilo Shop.
So, we are now here in the monastery of Billettes, Cloitre des Billettes. And I took you here because I'm fascinated with places that remain through time.
This is the only medieval monastery that remains in Paris, to this day.
Saint-Germain is the bohemian Paris.
This is the area where all the writers and the artists were working at the beginning of the century and it's still an area where you got a lot of art galleries and things like that,
and I really like the atmosphere.
You feel sometime [sometimes] you're living in a museum.
I think the best way to see the area is just to walk by in the street and to discover all the small, tiny shops, small galleries.
So, here we are, Rue [de] Seine, in front of the Galerie Downtown Francois Laffanour, a gallery that I especially like
because they are showing the best artists of the world.
And let's have a look at another gallery, just across the street, and they are showing some really nice pieces of Oscar Niemeyer, the architect.
I like this gallery very much because they are always showing like the best designer of the... from the fifties through the late sixties.
They always mix old furniture pieces with one nice photographs [photograph], paintings [painting].
And they can find like the most amazing people from all around the world and recreate the whole story of a designer, or an architect through the pieces he designed.
That's great, and in Saint-Germain you can find a lot of people playing music at all the corner[s] of the street because Saint-Germain is also really famous for the... all the jazz club[s].
At night, there are a lot of jazz men, very famous, playing there.
So, we are in Les Puces, another place I really, really like because I used to spend a lot of time here when I was a teenager.
[It] was a place very famous for punk rockers, for finding music, clothing and meeting your friends. There is [are] lots of antiques, hip hop T-shirts on the other side.
Here is the first place I want to bring you. It's called Quintessence Playground. It's a kind of antique shop, but with a very special taste, I can say.
I think we can enter here.
It was interesting to come to Saint-Ouen to the flea market because it's only open on the weekend.
I like this place because there is lots of different inspiration that I can link directly with a tattoo with a...
like, all the baroque pieces and all kind of stuff as well. Really creepy, but nice, you see?