Monsieur Aristide, rue Aristide-Bruant

A garden in the Abbesses district

Monsieur Aristide is at 3 rue Aristide-Bruant, a small street between rue des Abbesses and rue Lepic, the area of Montmartre known as Abbesses. The administrative quartier is Grandes-Carrières. The hotel belongs to the Chapitre Six collection. Atout France, the national classification body, has rated it four stars since 18 October 2021, for 25 rooms.

The hotel pays tribute to the cabaret singer Aristide Bruant, illustrated by Toulouse-Lautrec. The hotel says it occupies a nineteenth-century building arranged around a “secret garden”, and furnished mostly with second-hand pieces.

Rooms and the house

The restaurant is the Café Aristide, a bistro with a cocktail bar; the hotel adds an inner garden and a terrace, individual air conditioning and a reception open round the clock. Four rooms are at garden level, and duplex suites under the roof have a terrace. Two communicating rooms on each floor are sold as family rooms of 27 square metres, and a garden apartment measures 36 square metres. One accessible room is on the ground floor, and small pets are accepted.

We found no confirmed spa or gym. The hotel also reports a terrazzo floor made from demolition materials, solar panels and rainwater recovery.

Metro and journeys

Abbesses (line 12) and Blanche (line 2) are each 300 metres, four minutes on foot; Pigalle (lines 2 and 12) is 500 metres, six minutes. Our data lists no RER station in Montmartre. From place des Abbesses (250 metres from the hotel), theoretical transit times are about 23 minutes to the Louvre, 28 to Notre-Dame and 36 to the Eiffel Tower, and about 25, 31 and 38 from place du Tertre (430 metres away). The slopes are real: according to Wikipedia, the platforms at Abbesses lie 36 metres underground.

Against its neighbours

On our Montmartre list of nine, the nearest hotel is Hôtel 29 Lepic, a three-star of 37 rooms about 60 metres away. Hôtel Littéraire Marcel Aymé, a four-star of 39 rooms, is about 130 metres away and Timhotel Montmartre, a three-star of 59, about 190. Manolita Paris, the only five-star of the 18th arrondissement, is about 220 metres away with ten rooms. The 18th arrondissement list puts them side by side.