Night Market Tradition · Onion Soup
Soupe à l'Oignon des Halles
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For over a century this soup was served at 3 a.m. to the porters and butchers of Paris's old central food market, and after-hours revelers used to detour there just to eat alongside them.
Onions are caramelized slowly in butter, simmered in beef stock, then ladled into a bowl over toasted bread, topped with melted Gruyère, and broiled until bubbling. Cafés near the old Les Halles market still serve it as a late-night, warm-you-up classic.
Why it's made this way: Les Halles was Paris's sprawling wholesale food market until it moved out of the city center in 1971, and the market workers' overnight soup became a beloved Parisian institution that outlasted the market itself.
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