Bar in Paris

The Ritz's wood-paneled cocktail room, bookless reservations and a serious dry martini

Crillon palace bar with eighteenth-century frescos, Kévin Rigault's 'A Sense of Memories' menu.

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.

Saint-Germain hunting-lodge speakeasy by Thomas Codsi, Le Fooding-listed, weekend basement DJ floor.

Tiny natural-wine bar inside the covered Passage des Panoramas, a Paris postcard.

Naturophile cave-à-manger by the canal, visiting chefs, no reservations, minimum-intervention list.

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

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

Royal Monceau's Philippe Starck-designed long bar, Forbes Travel Guide Star Bars 2025 pick on Avenue Hoche.

Marble-clad tapas-and-wine room next to the old Chateaubriand, Rem Koolhaas interior, natural-wine list.

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

Natural-wine cave-à-manger from 2008, David Lebovitz's pick, pre-trend bona fides.

The Marais corner where natural wine, oysters and serious cocktails collapse into one room.

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.

Sentier rum den behind a grilled-cheese counter, Joseph Akhavan's 100-plus-rum library, Diffords-listed.

The wine bar inside the Septime universe, 90 natural references, 30 standing seats, no booking.

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

11e cave-à-manger with one of Paris's deepest natural-wine cellars, 250+ cuvées.