Bar in Paris

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.