Venues similar to Harry's New York Bar

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

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

The Goncourt Prize restaurant since 1914 — Place Gaillon institution under chef Romain Van Thienen

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

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

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

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

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

Hemingway's table, a piano bar, and the steak that bears his name.

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.

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

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.

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

1864 Belle Époque brasserie under a stained-glass dome — choucroute, plateaux de fruits de mer, full theatre.

Sartre and Beauvoir's corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain since 1887.

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

The 1932 bistro classique, Ducasse-stewarded since 2013.