Marché Couvert Saint-Quentin

Marché Saint-Quentin is a covered food market in Paris’s 10th arrondissement. It is near Gare de l’Est, making it reachable from one of the city’s main railway stations.

The market opened in 1866. Its iron-and-glass structure is a surviving example of the covered market halls built in Paris during the Second Empire.

Vendors sell produce, meat, fish, cheese, bread, flowers, and prepared foods. The market is suited both to buying ingredients and to eating or sampling food while visiting the neighborhood.

Its iron-and-glass covered structure reflects the practical market architecture of nineteenth-century Paris. The design lets daylight into the hall while protecting traders and shoppers from the weather.