"Les Halles, the centuries-old central Parisian food market, was banished from the city to the suburb of Rungis in the late 1960s and early '70s, its beautiful old iron pavilions pulled down; a soulless modern shopping mall later took its place. When the first half of Les Halles was shut down and relocated in the early 70s' (the rest following soon after), the bistros of the quarter were struck hard; their livelihood depended almost exclusively on the business generated by the market community. Of those hundreds of bistros, only a few survive today,"
In the Saveur article "The Belly of Paris" (2007) Aux Tonneaux des Halles, a bistro situated just behind the church of St-Eustache on the cobbled old market street of rue Montorgueil.haricot de mouton—a bread-crumb-topped casserole of tender lamb and succulent white bean at Chez Denise sounds awfully good.
