Regard Saint-Martin

Regard Saint-Martin displays a rough, hand-painted sign above a storefront on Rue de Belleville. It serves as a rare, independent grocery store that maintains the older, slower rhythm of this neighborhood. In the nineteen-eighties, when many local markets vanished, the owners kept their shelves stocked with bulk grains and loose goods long before zero-waste shopping became a trend. A shelf inside still holds a heavy, rusted coffee grinder that local residents have used for decades to prepare their morning beans.