Bar in Paris

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

Oberkampf natural-wine canteen, charcuterie and small plates, run by ex-Chateaubriand.

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.

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

Franck Audoux's cocktail bar in a 1911 Hector Guimard Art Nouveau building.

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.

République speakeasy hidden behind a working laundromat — push the right washing-machine door, climb the staircase.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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