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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.

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.

Mourad Mazouz's Marais Maghreb institution since 1990, tagines and pastilla under 17th-century beams.