The 18th arrondissement of Paris (with a local)
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to "The 20 Kingdoms", a new season of The Earful Tower podcast. As you probably know, there are 20 districts in Paris, known as arrondissements. They may as well be kingdoms, at least for this podcast season, where I'll visit each kingdom and introduce you to someone who truly loves it.
In this episode, it's Sutanya Dacres, podcaster and author of Dinner For One. She has called the 18th home since 2013 and truly loves it. I met her at the Pirates de Montmartre seafood restaurant over an oyster or two. Here's what she had to say.
Mentioned in this episode:
Les Pirates De Montmartre (seafood restaurant)
Address: 63 Rue Duhesme, 75018 Paris
Au Rêve (cafe),
Address: 89 Rue Caulaincourt, 75018 Paris
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Oliver G here from the Eiffel Tower, and today we're going to the 18th district |
| 0:05.2 | with podcaster and writer Satania Dakers. |
| 0:09.1 | You hopefully know are already from Dinner for One, which is the name of her podcast and her memoir, actually. |
| 0:16.4 | Now, she's lived in the 18th arrondissement since 2013. |
| 0:21.6 | She loves it. |
| 0:22.9 | And I said to her, as I have with the, as I've done with the other episodes in this season, |
| 0:27.5 | I said, tell me where to meet you. |
| 0:30.6 | And I'm on my way. |
| 0:32.5 | And she said, let's meet at a restaurant called the Pirates de Montmart, the Pirates of Montmart, |
| 0:40.1 | which is like seafood, oysters, this kind of thing. |
| 0:43.7 | Even though I'm not a big oysters guy, I said, I'm on my way, Sittania. |
| 0:49.0 | So this episode is the 18th district, as seen by Sittño, who lives on the other side of the hill. |
| 0:58.8 | So we're getting into the side of Montmart, the tourists don't typically go to first. |
| 1:04.2 | I think you'll like this chat. |
| 1:05.2 | We go for a walk. |
| 1:05.9 | We see a few things, but it all starts with pirates and oysters as all good podcast episodes should. |
| 1:12.8 | You're here in this episode, Satania. |
| 1:14.2 | I think she liked the idea of the concept of the season, 20 kingdoms, the 20 arundice |
| 1:19.2 | months of Paris. |
| 1:20.3 | She uses the word a lot. |
| 1:21.9 | Towards the end as well, if you're sensitive to language, if you're sensitive to the F word, watch out. |
| 1:30.0 | There's one in here. |
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