Fricot, the Bastille grocery-counter of good things - Definitely closed

According to the Larousse, fricot is a " masculine noun designating meat, mixed vegetables and coarsely cooked - synonym: Frichti", but for David fricot is synonymous with his grandmother Marie Marguerite's Sunday meals, which his father described as fricots. Throughout his childhood, David was immersed in good food and convivial meals, and as a result, he took a liking to inviting friends to dinner at his home, an opportunity to share his passion and discover the very good products he found on his travels.

So, with the support of his wife Emmanuelle, David decided to turn his passion into a livelihood, and embarked on the construction of a Comptoir de bonnes choses, the ideal place to find everything you need to make fricots at home. Located at the beginning of rue Sedaine, next to the Bastille market, Fricot is a 25m² stall featuring a fine selection of David and Emmanuelle's culinary finds.

When asked how he describes his cabinet of curiosities, David explains thathe'snot after organic but good, and that he offers a showcase for the producers he's loved discovering all over France, Spain and Italy; so, at Fricot, aculinary tour of Europe is just a click away.

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Sausage from a farmer in Nasbinal (Aubrac), ham from Aveyron, Noir de Bigorre, hay tomme from Jean Marie (Beauvais), not forgetting terrines from Rodolphe, delicious spreads from Amaury Ronceray (a Yonne delicacy we can't live without) and jams from Stephan Perrotte, Meilleur Ouvrier de France and 2015 world jam champion based in Les Alleuds, a village in the Pays de la Loire region.

More than just a grocery store, Fricot has become the neighborhood lunchtime HQ, as David assembles these delicious products into huge sandwiches to eat on the go or on the spot, salads, lasagnes and soups, mouth-watering recipes at reasonable prices (from €5 for soup to €11 for homemade lasagne), accompanied by a Le Coq Toqué fruit juice, a Gallia beer or a glass of wine if you feel like warming up inside at one of the three tables!

They don't have enough space, that's for sure... the 25m² and the small 2m² work surface mean that they don't want 100 customers for lunch! Ideally, David would like to enlarge his kitchen, to offer more dishes, but the most reasonable option would be to expand with a second counter, to make us dream with the hundreds of products they love to share.

Practical info:
Fricot, le comptoir de bonnes choses à Bastille
Location: 1 rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris
Opening hours: 10am-2pm then 5pm-8.30pm Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10am-8.30pm Wednesdays, 10am-8pm Saturdays, 9.30am-2pm Sundays