Where to buy a good Christmas turkey in Paris?

[lornashaddick]

My parents are coming over from the UK to visit over Christmas, and I've said I'll do Christmas dinner... any recommendations on butchers who provide good turkey? And how far in advance I'll need to order it? (Hope it's not too late...)

I live in the seventh, but have a strong fiancé I can send further afield to pick up the bird, so to speak, if necessary.

[Parigi]

Any butcher will do. Or you can stake out a butcher in your hood with especially long lines.
Order a week ahead.
My thanxgiving turkrey - which had Ptipois's approval, no less - was a dinde fermier from the boucherie Warin in the Friday afternoon Place d'Anvers market.
If you go to him, go before 2:30pm, or the queue stretches to 1980s-Warsaw-length.
I highly recommend dinde fermier. It really tastes distinctly better than regular turkeys.

[John Talbott]

Yup, my guy on the Rue du Poteau has good ones but no Butterball, cheap stuff. And apologies, here, to my French friends, but not on the level of the average of Amurican ones.

[Yank]

Out here in the hinterlands I get my turkey's from a local vineyard. The owner's kids raise them to earn Christmas money. They are wonderful. Best ever!

This year, however, it's to be goose. 30€ for a really big guy. Only snag is that he was alive when we bought him! Down anybody?

[sunshine842]

I get mine from an organic farm out here in the provinces...smaller than American birds, but oh man...they are SO good. (and bizarrely, the Carrefour had industrial-farm dinde yesterday ON SPECIAL for more than what I paid at Thanksgiving for my bio plein-air bird.)