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Coltrane
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
- Critics choice
Don’t expect to find a jazz club at this new Marais venue; Coltrane is a hip bar with an eclectic music policy and a great outdoor space, set behind an art nouveau drinking fountain in a narrow cobbled pedestrian street, making for a delightful spot
- 38 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth, 3e
La Fine Mousse
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 2/4
Beer offerings in Paris can be distinctly below par, but thanks to the trend for all things organic and artisanal, a few treasures are emerging from the sea of Stella and Kro: La Fine Mousse is one. It’s run by a team of ‘bièreologues’ who man the
- 6 avenue Jean Aicard, 11e
Le Mary Céleste
- Rated as: 4/5
It would be easy to walk straight past the latest venture from the team behind Candelaria and Le Glass – with its nondescript front door and simple neon sign, the Mary Céleste oyster bar looks more like a neighbourhood pizzeria than the newest,
- 1 rue Commines, 3e
Mama Kin
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
Opened near the Canal de l’Ourcq, Mama Kin jumped right in, offering a full programme of live music and DJ nights since its launch in May 2011. Their dedicated crew organises regular acoustic concerts, inviting jazz manouche, rock, funk, blues and
- 13 rue de Thionville, 19e
Le Carmen
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 4/4
- Critics choice
The hôtel particulier that houses Le Carmen is an opulent, rococo architectural gem, built at the height of Empire decadence in 1875, where Bizet wrote his famous opera. Enormous ceilings with moulded frescoes, sculpted columns, sparkling crystal
- 34 rue Duperré, 9e
Grand Hôtel de Clermont - Chez Ahmmad
- Rated as: 4/5
- Price band: 1/4
The bar of Le Grand Hôtel de Clermont has become known as ‘Chez Ahmmad’ thanks to its proprietor, who has manned it for more than 50 years. The warm welcome from Ahmmad and his son is lavished on the local clientele of cheery, cheeky, eccentric old
- 18 rue Véron, 18e
Le Café du Commerce
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 1/4
- Critics choice
The Café du Commerce has kept the name of the local gambling hall, which is was before its metamorphosis in 2011. A few partitions have come down, huge walls of mock pebbledash, revealing an enormous space dominated by a handsome bar. Comfortable
- 13 rue de Clignancourt, 18e
Café la Cigale
- Rated as: 5/5
- Price band: 3/4
- Critics choice
The younger sibling of the mythical concert hall, Le Café de la Cigale is a haunt of arty types on the Boulevard Pigalle, an area little used to seeing trendy bars open up between the sex shops. Philippe Starck and Thierry Costes came together to
- 124 boulevard de Rochechouart, 18e
No Problemo
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 2/4
Set back from the great tourist waves battering Montmartre, in a small street hidden at the foot of the Sacré-Coeur, No Problemo is a likeable little bar with a little terrace of just two tables outside. Inside, it's decorated with lamps shaped like
- 14 rue Charles Nodier, 18e
La Divette de Montmartre
- Rated as: 3/5
- Price band: 1/4
An old school bar-tabac in the heart of Montmartre, which recalls the beatnik and rock bistros of the 1970s with its table football, ancient stickers, Beatles records and walls covered with old vinyl. Serge, the owner, is a neighbourhood character
- 136 rue Marcadet, 18e
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