Day 4: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Schedule:
9 am
Depart hotel for Montmartre visit
12:30 pm
Lunch at Bouillon Chartier
2 - 4 pm
Visit Grands Boulevards, Opera Garnier, Tuileries Gardens, Louvre (exterior), Dehillerin
4 - 6 pm
Free Time
6:30 pm
Depart for dinner at local bistrot
Transportation: Subway and lots of walking!
Montmartre
Montmartre is the highest hill of Paris, and is another village that became a neighborhood of Paris over time.
There are 222 steps to get up the hill, but don’t worry, we’ll take the funiculaire (sort of elevator)!
After visiting the Place de Tertres with all the artists and their easels, we’ll visit the Sacré Coeur Cathedral and take time for taking in the beautiful view of Paris.
Bouillon chartier
The Bouillon Chartier has been an institution in Paris since its creation in 1896. Though its Art Nouveau decor is over-the-top, people haven’t been coming here for centuries just for the ambiance, it’s popular for its price - for centuries there has been no restaurant cheaper than a bouillon (that serves made-from-scratch food). There are a few other historical bouillons in Paris (Julien, Pharamond, Pigalle, Champs de Mars, Vavin, Racine) but Chartier is the most famous of them all.
No foodie should travel to Paris without eating at a bouillon, so we’ll make this our stop for lunch while in the Grands Boulevard neighborhood!
The Grands boulevards
The first and original shopping malls were built on the great boulevards of Paris and today you can visit the Galleries Lafayette and Printemps.
We will visit the incredible stained glass cupola of the building that houses the Galleries Lafayette women’s department and even walk out onto the roof (many tourists do not know that this is possible) and have a beautiful view of the Opera Garnier.
Afterwards we will cross the street and go into the gourmet grocery store of Galleries Lafayette and see the counters of some of the most famous pastry chefs and chocolatiers of France (I hate to brag, but I had a temporary counter there one summer).
E. Dehillerin
After walking through the Tuileries Gardens, past the pyramids of the Louvre, down the Rue de Rivoli, we’ll visit the neighborhood of professional cooking utensils and ingredients. In the Chatelet neighborhood you can visit the granddaddy of them all, E. Dehillerin.
If you love copper and whisks in every length and diameter, you’ll go crazy in this store.
Thankfully, they do ship to the USA!