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Bars, Tearooms, Coffee Shops
and Street Food markets and bottles them in
small batches. Les Trois 8
There are many wonderful places in Paris where you can serves up small plates
enjoy a drink or a snack. Tearooms and coffee shops are alongside a strict menu of
perfect for a reviving afternoon stop, perhaps with a microbrews – there are no
decadent cake or two. Wine bars (bars à vin) in every quarter commercial beers to be found
offer various wines by the glass and, increasingly, excellent here. English-style pubs like the
food. Beer bars have astounding selections, and Irish pubs are Frog and the Princess and the
Frog and Rosbif are classic
much-loved spots serving Guinness in a relaxed, sometimes examples, and they, too, brew
rowdy atmosphere. Alternatively, choose from chic hotel bars their own beers. Bar staff are
or fun late-night venues. Street food is popular in Paris, with usually very friendly and will
food trucks and deli sandwich bars elbowing out the happily help you choose a
traditional ham-and-cheese baguette sandwich. beer that’s right for you.
Aside from traditionally
Wine Bars English pubs such as The
switches focus in the evening, Bombardier in the Latin
Most Parisian wine bars are when the emphasis is more Quarter, Paris also has dozens
small, convivial neighbourhood on the wine, with sharing of Irish pubs and a few Scottish
places. Some speciality wine plates of uncooked, but still ones, too. The best Irish pubs
bars serve natural and organic delicious, food. Pratz has a include Coolin in St-Germain-
wines made by small producers, great selection of wine and des-Prés and O’Sullivans by
typically accompanied by sharing plates; it also sells a sac the Mill in Montmartre. A
tapas-style bites. The cuisine apéro, a nifty bag containing Highland fling and good whisky
is often exciting and innovative a bottle of wine, cheese, ham can be found in The Auld
and can be as much of a draw and half a baguette, perfect for Alliance in the Marais.
as the wine. an impromptu picnic.
One of the best of the A number of top restaurants Cocktail and Late-
speciality wine bars is L’Avant have opened annexes where Night Bars
Comptoir, run by celebrity chef you can eat more cheaply, but
Yves Camdeborde. It serves a the food and quality of the wine Being such an elegant city,
choice selection of natural is still extremely high; Frenchie it’s no surprise that Paris has
wines and delicious sharing Bar à Vins, for example, is an more than its share of cocktail
plates. Le Garde Robe (see offshoot of the acclaimed and late-night bars. Some
p296) is a stylish neighbourhood Frenchie restaurant (see p297). handsome Paris brasseries, such
favourite, offering natural More traditional bars à vins as La Coupole (see p305) and
and biodynamic wines and a include Le Baron Rouge (see La Closerie des Lilas (see p306),
good lunchtime menu with p306), with its great selection of have long wooden or zinc
vegetarian choices. Au Passage wines, and Taverne Henri IV, bars, a glamorous ambience
(dinner only, open till 1.30am) is where lawyers from the nearby and a sense of distinguished
also a popular bar à vins serving Palais de Justice wind down over times past. Hotel bars are
creative cuisine in a buzzing a glass of wine and generous some of the loveliest places
atmopshere. platters of cheese or charcuterie. for cocktails in Paris. Bar 228
Also increasingly popular is If you’re keen to learn more at the hotel Le Meurice (see
the cave à manger – a wine about French wines, you can p284) has a cosy atmosphere
cellar with a dining area. You also join a tasting session; and lavish decor. It serves a
can eat in, as long as you order Ô Chateau wine bar runs wide range of cocktails, and
one of their wines by the glass very popular sessions with there is live jazz every night.
or buy a bottle and pay a English-speaking sommeliers. Other hotel bars of note
moderate corkage charge. include Le Bar at the Four
The advantage with this is that Beer Bars and Pubs Seasons George V (see p284),
you can always take away a few where bartenders will shake
bottles of anything you’ve tried The craft beer scene in Paris is your Martini at your table and
and liked. Usually, these cavistes now catching up with other present it in an individual silver
stock a superb range of wines, cities such as London and shaker, and the fashionable and
mostly natural and organic, Portland, with new micro- chic Bar du Plaza at the Plaza
many inexpensive. La Quincave breweries popping up all over Athénée Hotel, which has a
operates on this model, selling the city. La Fine Mousse has 20 resident DJ five nights a week.
some 200 wines; the food, such artisan beers on tap, while the If you are after an inventive
as terrine and saucisson, is Brasserie Goutte d’Or creates cocktail, head to a speakeasy-
simple and tasty. Popular for brews inspired by the style bar. One of the best is
its great-value lunch, 5e Cru neighbourhood’s African the Prescription Cocktail Club,

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