Inside Holybelly: The hippest cafe in Paris

The Earful Tower: Paris

Oliver Gee

Arts, Paris, Society & Culture, Travel, Places & Travel, France

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A chat with Nico, the owner of Holybelly, which is the hippest and most happening cafe restaurant in Paris. Maybe even France.

We talk about the secret to success, how Holybelly has gone beyond the hype and turned into an institution, and the time basketball superstar LeBron James came for breakfast.

We also talk about what to order if you find yourself in a terrible Paris restaurant, a few tips for the 10th district, and how exactly to order a steak in French.

Find Holybelly at: 5 AND 19 Rue Lucien Sampaix, 75010 Paris

Nico's new podcast: That Restaurant Thing

After our chat, it's tour guide Bertrand from My Private Paris talking about the fascinating history of the tenth district.

My Private Paris is the boutique tour agency sponsoring this podcast season. Find out more about My Private Paris here (and tell them I sent you!)

If you want to find more about The Earful Tower, here's the website, here's the Patreon link, and here's my Instagram. Get a copy of my new book here.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Earful Tower podcast. My name is Oliver G. This is a weekly show all about
0:07.4	Paris where I meet a guest who has something interesting to say, or several interesting things to say,
0:12.4	as you'll find out this week, and I share it with you as a podcast, The Yearful Tower.
0:17.5	My name's Oliver G. This week, the 10th episode of this season, you're going to be hearing
0:22.0	about the 10th district of Paris, the 10th arrondissement. And my guest is Nico from the hugely
0:29.0	popular cafe restaurant, Holy Belly. Now, you can find that restaurant in Rue, Lucien-Sampas.
0:35.6	In fact, they've got two on the same street.
0:38.2	And if you can't sort of locate it, just look for the line of people, hungry people.
0:42.8	Now, the subject is also the 10th arrondissement.
0:45.2	And when I asked Bertrand from my private Paris about how to describe the 10th
0:50.9	Arondissement, this is what he said.
0:52.7	Hipsters.
0:54.1	Hipsters? The 10th arrondissement, is what he said hipsters hipsters
0:54.8	hipsters
0:55.4	yeah the 10th
0:56.4	70s mom I mean
0:57.3	where do you live Oliver
0:58.5	I live in the 18th you knew that
1:00.3	yeah but you could live in the 10th
1:02.4	yeah you have a blast there right
1:04.1	it's the one
1:06.3	I mean a part of it is known as
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