Venues similar to Bisou

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mediterranean cooking with a Tuileries terrace at the foot of the Louvre

The other Saint-Germain café, with the better view of the church.

The bistronomy capital of Paris, on the Carrefour de l'Odéon.

The soufflé restaurant of the 7e, behind Le Bon Marché.