Bar in Paris

Mazouz brothers' Marais cocktail bar, North African-Pop Art mash-up, since 2001, with a hidden courtyard.

Haut-Marais no-menu cocktail bar, bartender asks your mood, builds the drink around French organic seasonal produce.

Taqueria up front, hidden cocktail bar through the back door, one of Paris's first speakeasies, still in form.

Female-led cocktail bar with bi-fold windows on the Belleville-Canal axis, zero pretension, real depth.

The 2007 Sentier speakeasy that built modern Paris cocktail culture, still no reservations

Mahogany expat bar from 1911, birthplace of the Bloody Mary, between Opéra and the Place Vendôme

Pigalle bar-restaurant by Fabien Lombardi (ex-Prescription), natural wines, aged cocktails, PUNCH-listed.

Le Bristol's curiosity-cabinet bar, Maxime Hoerth, first bartender awarded Meilleur Ouvrier de France (2011).

Châtelet jazz club since 1984, 300+ concerts a year, free Friday-Saturday midnight jam.

French-spirits-only cocktail bar in a graffiti-clad doorway, World's 50 Best Bars regular.

World's 50 Best Bars veteran, eleven consecutive years on the list, peak rank #6 in 2023.

Pigalle absinthe speakeasy, 50 Best Discovery, the Little Red Door team's Storyville room.

Whisky-led cocktail den behind a discreet 4e façade, Vogue called it one of the world's 20 best.