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Les Provinces
For a market-day lunch: choose your meat at a butcher's counter by the Aligre market and have it cooked on the plancha.
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Why go
Les Provinces suits a late morning at the Aligre market, when you want lunch without leaving the bustle. It is a working butcher's shop at 20 rue d'Aligre that cooks too: Time Out described in 2013 how the butcher Christophe Dru turned his shop into a restaurant after hosting tastings for the Le Fooding festival, and its June 2026 list still names it for steak tartare, entrecôte cooked rare and pork chops, at tables or standing counters. The meat is priced by weight at the counter and cooked quickly on the plancha for a flat charge, given as €9 in 2013, 2017 and 2026.
What to order
- Entrecôte (rib-eye)
- Steak tartare
- Faux-filet (sirloin)
Not published: aging, fire, breed, grade, price, year opened.
01What to order
- Entrecôte (rib-eye)Named in Time Out's 2026 list, cooked rare on the plancha.
- Steak tartareOn the same list.
- Faux-filet (sirloin)Gault&Millau's artisan page names the faux-filet among the shop's cuts, alongside 'pièces maturées' (aged cuts).
02The practical
20 rue d'Aligre, 75012; metro Ledru-Rollin or Faidherbe-Chaligny. Time Out counted 22 seats and no bookings, so come early, especially at weekends. Phone 01 43 43 91 64. There is no website, only a Facebook page, and published hours disagree (Time Out in 2017: Tuesday to Sunday, until 14:00 on weekdays and 15:00 at weekends), so call before you go.
- Address
- 20 Rue d'Aligre, 75012 Paris
- Directions
- Google Maps ↗
How does Les Provinces work?
You pay the butcher's counter price per kilo plus a cooking charge (€9 in Time Out's reviews), and the meat is cooked on the plancha.
Can you book at Les Provinces?
Time Out says no: about 22 seats, first come, first served.
03Sources
timeout.fr · timeout.com · davidlebovitz.com · fr.gaultmillau.com · timeout.fr
Last verified Oct. 29, 2026.
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