Paris has a new dining style in 2020: Take Away or in French “emporter“. All closed for health reasons, some cafés and restaurants are creatively staying in business using an expanded le “doggy bag” concept. At the entry door is a table, display case of food, posted menus and sometimes flowers that welcome walk-up guests to place their order. Using a paper bag to carry out your lunch or dinner in France, got its start in 2010. Le loi Grenelle 2 required restaurants to reduce their biodegradable garbage whence came le doggy bag or “sac à toutou”. Home delivery from chocolate to sushi to pizza is catching on with riders on motor scooters or bicycles. Otherwise, the sociable Parisians have an occasion to chat while waiting for their order.
Pause Café began preparing a few days ago to open–for take away
Davito, an Italian restaurant on Rue Sedaine, is a former butcher shop. Walk through the former refrigerator to enter the bar.
Luli and his brother Petro own this French/Albanian restaurant in Butte aux Cailles doing take away
Le Repaire de Cartouche uses flowers and local produce from local producers. Chef Rodolph Paquin in the photo
On the Rue de la Butte aux Cailles Le Mêlé Casse is one open for take away
While working on a Butte aux Cailles video, I noticed another restaurant doing take away, the Apollonia; Pizza boxes stacked on the bar
In the midst of lockdown Auberge de Flora was one of the first in my neighbourhood to open for take away
Delivery guys waiting in front of Joséphine Vannier chocolate shop
Customers waiting in line to buy Easter Chocolate
Champagne in the bucket for a take away lunch along Quai des Celestins