Bar, Café entertainment in Paris
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On Cherche Encore
This relaxed, modern, loft-style bar-café with the less-than-inspired name of ‘We’re Still Looking’, is trying to do it all and succeeding. It’s committed to serving quality food and wines at reasonable prices; the Saturday brunch from noon to 4pm is one of the best around. It is also intent on providing quality tunes (electro, house and funk) from Thursday to Saturday, which leads to some quality mingling. The corner terrace is positioned for all-afternoon sun and is worth pouncing on.
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Delaville Café
This grand erstwhile brothel has an alluring mix of restored history (original mosaic tiles, distressed walls) and industrial chic. Between the high-ceilinged restaurant (mains €14 to €19), the extensive terrace (one of the best along the grands boulevards ) and the bar–lounge areas, you’re sure to find your niche somewhere. DJs play Thursday to Saturday, making it a quality ‘before’ venue for the nearby Rex Club.
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L’Île Enchantée
In a similar vein to Café Chéri(e), this ‘Enchanted Island’ in Belleville has become a popular stop-off for the before-clubbing crowd. With its colourful façade, huge windows and large, modern interior, it’s a relaxed restaurant and terrace by day that turns electric at nightfall from Thursday to Saturday, with quality DJs mixing most evenings.
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Le Tambour
Some people will say that the ‘Drummer’, a Paris mecca for night owls, with generously long hours and friendly service, is a restaurant. And they do serve straightforward dishes till as late as 3.30am or 4am. But we enjoy it as a late-night drinking venue and its mixed, somewhat boisterous crowd. You’ll enjoy the recycled street furniture, the transport bits ‘n’ bobs and the cocky staff.
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Amnésia
In the heart of the Marais, cosy, warmly lit Amnésia is an institution not easy to forget. Friendly and stylish, it remains resolutely popular with gay guys but is more mixed than many of its counterparts. There’s an attractive lounge area upstairs and a tiny dance floor in the cave (wine cellar) downstairs with DJ music from the 1980s and 90s.
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Le Pick-Clops
This buzzy bar-café – all shades of yellow and lit by neon – has Formica tables, ancient bar stools and plenty of mirrors. Attracting a friendly flow of locals and passers-by, it’s a great place for morning or afternoon coffee, or that last drink alone or with friends. Great rum punch (from €6.60) served with copious amounts of peanuts.
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La Sardine
Out in the western flanks of Belleville, it’s easy to miss rue Ste-Marthe and its colourful restaurants and bars exerting a dilapidated, funky charm. At the top, literally and figuratively, is this splendid and convivial café-wine bar, a bit of Marseille in Paris – brilliant for warm afternoons, tapas and organic wine.
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Troll Café
This music and beer bar just up from the Marché Couvert Beauvau takes Brittany as its theme (at least the eponymous Troll, 90 years old if a day, is supposedly from there) but mixes in something of a northern France thing by selling Ch’ti beer. It’s a young place, somewhat silly but fun for that.
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Café Baroc
The old cinema seats here are ideal for sipping flavoured beer (a big deal here). Normally a chilled, almost classy little place, things get hyper when bar staff play fabulously camp 1980s tunes. Open mic from 4pm till closing on Sunday lets you try at being just as good (or bad).
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Chez Prune
This Soho-boho café put Canal St-Martin on the map. It’s a classic Parisian bar-café, nicely rough around the edges, with good vibes – a terrace opposite the Canal St-Martin open in summer and a cosy atmosphere in winter. Brunch on Sundays (noon to 4pm) is popular.
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Café Chéri(e)
An imaginative, colourful bar with its signature red lighting, infamous mojitos and caiparinhas and commitment to quality tunes, this is everyone's chéri(e) (darling) in this part of town. Lively, gritty, art-chic crowd and electro DJs Thursday to Saturday.
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Nyx
This lesbian café and lounge bar at the corner of rue des Écouffes (in what was once a boulangerie -patisserie) has a stylish vibe and an upbeat crowd. There’s a DJ club downstairs that operates on Friday and Saturday nights.
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De La Ville Café
This erstwhile brothel fuses history (original mosaic tiles, distressed walls) with industrial chic. Its terrace is among the best along the grands boulevards and DJs play Thursday to Saturday, making it a hot ‘before’ venue for the nearby Rex Club.
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Little Café
This lesbian-owned bar-café is a local favourite, with great coffee and meals and a warm welcome for one and all. The clientele is relaxed, mixed and street-smart, with a penchant for electronic music and good wine.
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Au Rendez-Vous des Amis
If you need to ease your way up or down the steps of Montmartre, look no further than this kick-back café-bar, which serves €1 espresso and €10 pitchers of beer. Sandwiches and snacks are prepared in Hell’s Kitchen.
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Café la Fusée
Close to the Pompidou Centre but away from the crowds, this hip café, strung with coloured lights, is a lively and laid-back local hangout. The wine selection is particularly good and the music excellent.
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Les Marronniers
Strictly speaking not gay, but in this part of town how do you tell? What this place has got cubed is location, and its enormous pavement terrace is the place in the Marais for hunters and the hunted.
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L'Atmosphère
A nod to the 1938 flick Hôtel du Nord, this timber-and-tile café along the canal has an arty, spirited ambience, well-priced drinks and decent food.
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Open Café
A gay venue for all types at all hours. The large terrace and daytime schedule are draw cards, as is the four-hour happy hour starting at 6pm daily.
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Le Cochon à l’Oreille
A Parisian bijou, this heritage-listed hole-in-the wall retains its belle époque tiles with market scenes of Les Halles and just eight tiny tables.
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