Bouillon Chartier

Bouillon Chartier is tucked away in the back of a courtyard at seven rue du Faubourg Montmartre. Founded in eighteen ninety-six by brothers Frédéric and Camille Chartier, this restaurant was created as a bouillon, a specific type of nineteenth-century eatery designed to provide fast, hearty, and inexpensive meals to the city's workers. Its long, bustling dining hall features a high glass ceiling, large mirrors, and walls lined with numbered wooden drawers where regular customers once stored their personal napkins.