Café entertainment in Paris
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Le Progrès
A real live café du quartier perched in the heart of Abbesses, the ‘Progress’ occupies a corner site with huge windows and simple seating and attracts a relaxed mix of local artists, shop staff, writers and hangers-on. It’s great for convivial evenings, with DJs and bands some nights, but it’s also a good place to come for inexpensive meals and daytime coffees.
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Café le Basile
Don’t bother looking for a name above this hip student café, framed by expensive designer fashion shops – there isn’t one. Well-worn Formica tables, petrol-blue banquettes and a fine collection of 1950s lights and lampshades keep the sleek crowd out, the retro crowd in. A fabulous find for a hot chocolate or beer, light lunch or flop between lectures.
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Chào Bà Café
This comfortable café-restaurant on two levels is decorated in colonial Oriental style with huge plants, ceiling fans and bamboo chairs. It serves great cocktails (from €9.50) in goldfish-bowl-sized glasses, and somewhat bland Franco-Vietnamese fusion food. And by the way: chào bà means bonjour madame in Vietnamese.
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Le Café des Initiés
This modern-design café almost on rue du Louvre is popular with journalists and communications types. While not a late-night venue, it has a pleasant terrace and is great for evening drinks, coffees and even meals (a two-course menu is just €14.50). Slick service, nondeafening music and good food attract a trendy 30-something mix.
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Baz’art Café
This café, whose name sounds suspiciously like ‘bizarre’ in English, is just southwest of Bastille but could be a million miles away from the hoopla usually associated with that quartier (neighbourhood). It’s a grown-up, stylish place with friendly service and good-value food.
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