Entrance to the Super Barquette
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I learned about the Paris Street Food Festival several days in advance of the event and was all a-twitter with excitement as I made my way along quai Austerlitz to find the stands that were selling street food there:
Fish and Chips by The Sunken Chip
Super BBQ by My Food Montreuil
Burgers by Le Camion qui Fume
…and mouth-wateringly more!
Woman with Brochure
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A lovely young woman was distributing brochures that listed the names of the food stands and the types of street food that they were serving. She invited me to purchase a raffle ticket for 1€; otherwise the entrance to the event was free.
People Feasting at the Street Food Festival
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I walked onto a deck overlooking the Seine and saw that a lot of people had gotten there before me. I arrived at 12:30 p.m., which I thought was early enough to permit me to get some food and sit down for lunch. But I was wrong…
Standing in Line for BBQ
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There were long lines everywhere. For the BBQ…
Serving up Fish and Chips
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…for the fish and chips…
This Way to the Beer
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…but, surprisingly, not for the beer!
Alexandre Bournonville of Distrikt Beer
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So I purchased a bottle of amber beer brewed locally in the town of Thiverval-Grignon, not too far from Paris. That’s all that I had at the street food festival!
BBQ Cooker – My Food Montreuil
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The Monstrously Long Line for BBQ
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The food stand for BBQ was the most popular. How did it measure up to Texas BBQ? I’ll never know, because I didn’t want to wait in the monstrously long line.
But I enjoyed the Distrikt amber beer!
