Where do Parisian restaurant chefs shop for food?

Paris?

Not many Chefs will be out in the middle of the night shopping – most don’t finish work until the middle of the night. They might appoint someone to cover those duties, but as for a market where you need credentials to shop, that is unlikely. It does happen with wholesalers, but not fresh food markets. I will often go to the weekend fish and produce markets at around sunrise – but I don’t see any well known chefs shopping there. Often see the owners of small cafes though – “Mom & Pop” type eateries.

Stall holders at markets are not going to limit their income by only selling to chefs or restaurant owners. It would be financial suicide.

Les Halles is gone.

I think there’s a wholesale market in Rungis… I will ask google! Thanks!

The local Bodega !!

Google found this: http://www.foodreference.com/html/artrungis.html…good info, but it doesn’t say if this is open to the general publish or professionals only.

@Les Halles is gone.

Now there is a name that brings back memories. It is looong gone. Late sixties or early seventies I seem to recall. Back when Françoise Hardy was still racking up hits.

I did read an article recently about someone shopping in Paris with a chef at a market – Rungis rings a faint bell. (Pause for googling, too.)

Bingo: Rungis it is. And, as the article says, you do need a card to enter; it is not open to the general public.

In Lyon, Paul Bocuse has a very fancy market near part dieux.

That is in the center of gastronomy mind you.

At the Parisian restaurant chefs shop of course!