The 16th arrondissement of Paris: The sweet life
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
It's Season 12 of The Earful Tower, The Paris Countdown: Here comes an-depth guide to the Paris arrondissements after we've spent 24 hours in each of them.
This week it's the 16th arrondissement of Paris. The YouTube video that goes with this episode will be here, and the blog post is here with all the pictures.
A big thank you to the Patreon supporters, without whom we wouldn't be making this season. Join them here.
Below are all the places we mentioned.
Where did we stay?
Address: 29 Rue des Marronniers, 75016
The best restaurants
Address: 19 Chau. de la Muette, 75016 Paris
La Rotonde @larotondedelamuette
Address: 12 Chau. de la Muette, 75016 Paris
Best place for a drink
Cravan bar @cravanparis
Address: 17 Rue Jean de la Fontaine, 75016 Paris
Address: 10 Av. d'Iéna, 75116 Paris
The best cafe
Coutume Passy @coutumecafe
Address: 78 Rue de Passy, 75016 Paris
More things to find in the 16th
Address: 47 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris
Address: 13 Av. du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris @palaisdetokyo
Address: 5 Sq. Charles Dickens, 75016 Paris
Address: 8 Rue Benjamin Franklin, 75116
Hunt for Hector. Spend an afternoon finding all the buildings in the district designed by “the pope of art nouveau” Hector Guimard.
Music: Pres Maxson's interpretation of "Douce France", by Charles Trenet.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think the 16th hour on this one is a boring part of town? |
| 0:03.1 | Yes. |
| 0:03.8 | Do you think it's just for posh people walking posh dogs on posh leashes? |
| 0:07.8 | Well, yes. |
| 0:08.8 | Well, you're a boring person yourself. |
| 0:10.6 | Oh, no. |
| 0:11.5 | The 16th hour on this one is actually a really cool part of town. |
| 0:14.6 | And I think its reputation has been somewhat tarnished by people like me five years ago. |
| 0:20.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.3 | And had you even stepped foot in a 60? |
| 0:24.1 | I don't think I'd ever been. I still want to go. |
| 0:24.9 | You're like, it's too far. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm not going to. |
| 0:26.5 | But now we spend 24 hours there and we found a lot of cool stuff. |
| 0:31.1 | In this episode of the Paris Countdown, where Lina and I are spending 24 hours in every single hour on this month, working from 20 to 1. |
| 0:38.9 | We found incredibly stunning, Ard Nouveau buildings, delicious cocktails. |
| 0:45.3 | In fact, you're going to hear from one of the top cocktail bar owners in the world. |
| 0:50.5 | The world. |
| 0:51.7 | The world. |
| 0:52.5 | Yes. |
| 0:53.6 | You're going to hear from him. We even discovered a restaurant |
| 0:56.3 | that was once a train station. Well, la-de-da. Exactly. And a lot more on this intriguing |
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