The world’s largest fresh market restarts

The belly of Paris and France, as it is often called, is slowly starting up again. The halls of the largest French wholesale market are regaining their anthill appearance. The total reopening of Parisian restaurants last Monday is accelerating the recovery. Stéphane Milan, chef restaurateur in Sceaux (Hauts-de-Seine) in the Paris suburbs, is used to the place and returns to choose his products three times a week. “We are slowly starting to get back into our habits, we are still trying to limit the quantities, we are not loading too much: I prefer to come back (…) to make the supplement”he explains.

Only half of the cutlery

A return which delights its fruit and vegetable wholesaler whose activity had fallen by 70% during confinement. “It’s nice to see them again, indeed”confirms David Fichou, greengrocer at Vinas, for whom confinement “was very hard”. But for the restaurateur, there is no question of stocking up: the recovery remains mixed. His restaurant only has half of the usual 140 seats at the moment.