Amidst busy Marais shopping (tea, shirts, paper) a cheese blintz can revive a girl wonderfully - and all the better if it's only 3 EUR. Should I ever find myself back in that street, I'll try one of their fabulous-looking boreks.

The place made all the more special when Anne-Solène wrote to say it belonged to Benjamin's grandfather some twenty years ago...

Sacha Finkelsztajn, 27 rue des Rosiers, 75004 Paris
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10 am to 7 pm, Mondays 11 am to 7 pm