Strasbourg Street Food: Lunch and Picnic Stops

A filled bun or baguette makes an easy Strasbourg lunch, while cheese shopping calls for a different kind of stop. Choose prepared food if you want to eat straight away, or La Nouvelle Douane if you are assembling a picnic. Its producer-run shop sells farm products rather than a ready-made street-food meal.

Ô Baozi and Banh Mi Saigon suit a portable lunch around the western side of the centre. Il Panzerotto brings Apulian street food to the northern approach, while Jabiru Café in Krutenau serves a more substantial cooked meal. Decide by what you want to eat and where you are spending the day, rather than trying to visit all five.

Choose a quick lunch or picnic stop

Stop and area	Order	Estimated spend per person	Weekly pattern
La Nouvelle Douane · cathedral area	Comté or Morbier	€5–10 · cheese portion	Closed Sunday
Ô Baozi · western centre	Pork baozi	€6–15 · snack to lunch	Closed Monday and Sunday
Banh Mi Saigon · Quai de Paris	Nem Nuong bánh mì	€8–15 · sandwich, extras	Closed Sunday
Il Panzerotto · north of centre	Panzerotto	€6–15 · snack to lunch	Closed Saturday; Sunday evening only
Jabiru Café · Krutenau	Chicken Mafé Arachide with rice	€15–25 · size, drink or side	Closed Sunday

Choose the baguette or buns for a portable lunch, a panzerotto for a handheld snack, and mafé for a meal you eat with cutlery. Cheese is one component of a picnic: allow separately for bread, fruit and drinks. The lower estimates suit a modest order, while more food or a drink takes you towards the upper end.

These are casual walk-in stops, not occasions built around reserving a table. Banh Mi Saigon and Il Panzerotto offer takeaway, and Jabiru Café also offers online collection orders. La Nouvelle Douane is an indoor producer-run shop, not an open-air market or prepared-meal counter.

La Nouvelle Douane

La Nouvelle Douane is the stop for buying picnic cheese rather than collecting a cooked lunch. Choose Comté, a firm Jura cheese, or Morbier, recognisable by its dark line through the middle. Both belong to the shop’s Jura cheese range. They give you something to pair with bread rather than a complete meal on their own.

Producer-members take turns staffing and running the shop alongside employees. The farms retain ownership of their goods and set their prices, with a commission supporting the shop’s running costs. This is direct farm-product shopping, so the producer connection is part of what distinguishes it from a conventional food counter.

You will find the shop at 1A Rue du Vieux-Marché-aux-Poissons, near the cathedral. Its all-day weekday and Saturday shopping windows make it useful for collecting ingredients before lunch or later in the day. Bring a bag and keep cheese cool if your picnic is still some way off.

Ô Baozi

Ô Baozi specialises in homemade baozi, steamed filled buns, with pork baozi the order to choose here. The bun-sized portions let you match the order to your appetite: a small order works as a snack, while more buns make it a fuller lunch. Steaming gives the dough its soft texture, rather than the crust of a baked roll.

The restaurant is at 49 Rue du Jeu-des-Enfants, on the western side of the centre. It is a useful food stop when your sightseeing brings you to this part of Strasbourg. Decide whether you want a light bite or enough food to replace lunch before ordering, rather than treating every bun as a whole meal.

Banh Mi Saigon

At Banh Mi Saigon, order the Nem Nuong bánh mì, a Vietnamese filled baguette with grilled minced pork. Cucumber, coriander, carrot and pickled white radish accompany the filling, bringing fresh and pickled vegetables into the sandwich. It is the choice here when you want something handheld rather than a bowl requiring cutlery.

For a meat-free order, the Chay combines vegetarian sausage and glazed tofu. The wider Vietnamese offer includes bowls and rolls, but the baguette is what makes this stop particularly useful for a portable lunch. Choose the filling first, then decide whether a sandwich alone will satisfy you or whether you want a side and drink.

Banh Mi Saigon offers takeaway at 8 Quai de Paris, beside the water on the western side of the centre. Food service runs Monday–Saturday 11:00–21:00, so you can use it for lunch or an early evening meal. Take your order away when you want to eat elsewhere. The sandwich format keeps the meal simpler to carry than a sauced bowl.

Il Panzerotto

Il Panzerotto is the Apulian street-food stop: choose a panzerotto, a filled savoury dough pocket. This southern Italian speciality is usually fried, giving the dough a crisp outside around its filling. A modest order suits a snack or light lunch, but if you are hungry, order more food rather than assuming a single pocket will replace a full meal.

The restaurant offers takeaway at 63 Rue du Faubourg-de-Pierre, north of the centre. It suits a food break when you are already exploring that side of Strasbourg. Weekday lunch service runs 12:00–14:30. Eat the pocket while it is still warm, and give a hot filling a moment to cool before biting into it.

Jabiru Café

Jabiru Café’s chicken Mafé Arachide with rice is a substantial takeaway lunch, not a handheld snack. Mafé is a peanut-based stew. Here the sauce includes tomato paste, spices, ginger, carrots, peas and red cabbage. The chicken version uses thighs, while tofu is the alternative. Aloco, fried plantain, is another part of its African and fusion offer.

At 60 Rue de Zurich in Krutenau, you can order online and choose your collection time. You can collect lunch on weekdays, and Tuesday–Friday evening service starts at 18:00. Order according to appetite, with portion size and any side or drink deciding your total spend. For a takeaway meal, have cutlery and somewhere to sit: rice and peanut sauce need a different arrangement from a sandwich.

Sources & fact-checking

Checks against the sources below cover: key figures, services, and closures.

• INSEE — key figures
• Univers – JABIRU CAFÉ
• La carte – JABIRU CAFÉ
• Il Panzerotto — service
• BANH MI SAIGON — service
• Banh Mi Saigon — key figures
• La Nouvelle Douane — closures
• Toutes les actualités – La Nouvelle Douane – Strasbourg
• Découvrir La Nouvelle Douane – Magasin de producteurs à Strasbourg