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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 5:14:15 GMT
Most people know Porte de Clignancourt as the seedy end of metro line 4 which releases people into the rather overwhelming Saint Ouen flea market. It's a messy knot of shabby streets full of shabby shops and unappealing cafés. A lot of this will change in two years when the arrival of the T3b tramway line extension will have transformed the neighbourhood, but for the moment the area does not have much going for it. Except for one thing: the old abandoned Ornano train station on the petite ceinture line has become La Recyclerie. It looks like a funky alternative café-restaurant, but it is really much more than that. It has services for repairing small appliances, for counseling, for looking after children, and it even has hens that lay eggs and a vegetable garden.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 5:27:56 GMT
The dancing was only until 18:00 on Sunday. It is a major residential area and care must be taken not to annoy the neighbours. They had laid a platform over the rails, and they were just finishing the disassembly. The little bar was still in place, though.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 6, 2015 18:43:19 GMT
Interesting. I'd heard about La Recyclerie--perhaps here--and visited their website before. We could use a similar space here, it's a good idea.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 19:04:24 GMT
Yes, I had already mentioned and it posted other pictures on the "petite ceinture" report. But it seemed to deserve a thread of its own.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 6, 2015 23:44:58 GMT
Extraordinary. I knew about this place also through other ecolo and alternatif type antennes in Paris, but it is wonderful to see the photos. Is the wine any good? Did you buy any eggs? I have some really good organic eggs now, bought for a reasonable price through such a network, and will be making a frittata - tortilla; well, a flat omelette with more vegetable matter than egg. I most often make small ones for one or two portions.
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Post by fumobici on Jul 7, 2015 1:09:35 GMT
Do wine shops in Paris sell bulk wine? In Italy some do, but the thing to do is to buy bulk--sfuso in Italian--directly from the many wineries. It's usually a nice drive to a winery and if it's small enough you can likely score a bonus chat with the vintner and find out about the season, the weather and stuff like which varieties had good years and which didn't. You bring a trunk full of 5l glass bottles, fill them from a big vat and a hose and recant them into 750ml, cork them up with a press at home and cellar them. If you know what you like by taste, you can get almost anything for a song.
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Post by bjd on Jul 7, 2015 6:33:10 GMT
We have a wine shop nearby that sells bulk wine -- I see the occasional person coming out with a plastic jug that holds a few litres. I haven't bought any though so can't comment on the quality.
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Post by HelloBamboo on Jul 7, 2015 11:44:54 GMT
Thanks for posting. By chance I just walked by this place yesterday. I made a mental note to come on a weekend as it looked like fun- especially when the weather is nice!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 12:22:59 GMT
Do wine shops in Paris sell bulk wine? It is rather difficult to find in Paris, but obviously it is extremely easy in all of the wine producing regions. Strangely enough, the place that provides that wine to La Recyclerie -- En Vrac -- is just half a block from my apartment. Before they opened a restaurant/wine bar to go along with the normal wine business, they just had a stand at the Marché de la Chapelle with big barrels of wine and of course bottles available for sale or on deposit for people who needed them. They now have two locations (one in the 10th) and with a little luck they will continue to grow. www.vinenvrac.fr/
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Post by lagatta on Jul 7, 2015 12:23:16 GMT
K2 and I cross-posted!
fumobici, I've done that in Italy and in France (with friends who had a car) but you need a car. I don't drive, so it would be more practical in my own neighbourhood. There is, or was, a wine bar/merchant near K2 which also does that, but I like the idea of la Recyclerie.
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