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19, rue Danièle Casanova, Paris 75001
+33-01-44-86-97-97

Très Honoré Bar

Situated on the Place du Marché Saint-Honoré, this '20s-themed boudoir-esque venue boasts two long wooden bars, velvet curtains, and couches that make lounging and cocktail-sippi... read more

2 avenue de la Cascade, Paris 75019
+33-01-42-00-00-45

This newly renovated outdoor café boasts one of the best sunsets in the city. Perched at the tip top of the hilly Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Rosa Bonheur has recently become a destination wat... read more

30, rue Vieille-du-Temple , Paris 75004
+33-01-42-72-47-47

Le Petit Fer à Cheval

The classic French fare is passable, but the real draw is its precious marble horseshoe bar, an excellent place to plonk down an elbow and watch the V-d-T scene outside. The tiny space is trussed w... read more

200, quai de Valmy , Paris 75010
+33-01-40-34-02-48

Le Point Ephémère

Killer programming in a huge old construction depot right on the canal. Every taste—from left-field and experimental electronic to indie rock and hip-hop—gets its night. Visual art exhi... read more

34, boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle , Paris 75010
+33-01-48-24-48-09

Delaville Café

Fin-de-siècle café with gorgeous ironwork tables and gilded mosaic walls and ceilings near the Grands Boulevards club quarter. Run by the founder of Oberkampf’s Charbon, it offe... read more

38, rue de Bretagne, Paris 75003
+33-01-44-54-03-30

Café Charlot

Drop-dead gorgeous café/bar just across from the Marche des Enfants Rouge. Salvaged 1950s zinc + white tiled walls + dark wood + soft yellow lighting = sophisticated nostalgia. Tables on the... read more

4, rue Dupetit-Thouars, Paris 75003
+33-01-42-72-04-06

Café Crème

Sweet and sun-dappled terrace on a tree-lined street facing the Carreau du Temple. Not far from noisy République, this area has the feel of a calm little village. A village populated exclusi... read more

19-21, rue Boyer, Paris 75019
+33-01-53-27-35-77

La Bellevilloise

What began in 1877 as the first cooperative association in Paris is now a sprawling pleasure complex on the Ménilmontant hill. The founding commies' original mission - to provide cultural ed... read more

148, rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin, Paris 75010
+33-01-53-26-10-60

Le Café A

Most who pass by the nondescript exterior would never suspect the leafy oasis of calm that lies behind these crumbling walls. A tree-filled courtyard at the center of this former convent (now Archi... read more

41, rue de Charonne, Paris 75011
+33-01-48-06-80-33

Pause Café

Chacun cherche son chat (everybody's looking for his...cat) was the quintessential Paris portrait of the 90s. Pause Café figures prominently, which pretty much guarantees a steady stream for... read more

99, Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris 75006
+33-01-45-48-38-24

Le Select

Le Select, and other nearby Montparnasse haunts like Le Dôme and La Rotonde, were for Picasso, Henry Miller, and Hemingway what the Café Flore and Les Deux Magots later were for Sartre... read more