La Closerie des Lilas
- Address
- 171 blvd du Montparnasse 6e
- Transport
- Website
- Phone
- 01 40 51 34 50
- Price
- restaurant/brasserie starters €23-46/11-21, mains €22-42/23-27, menu lunch €45
- Hours
- restaurant lunch & dinner to 11.30pm, brasserie noon-1am, piano bar 11am-1am
Lonely Planet review for La Closerie des Lilas
As anyone who has read Hemingway will know, what is now the American Bar at the ‘Lilac Enclosure’ is where Papa did a lot of writing, drinking and oyster slurping; brass plaques tell you exactly where he and other luminaries such as Picasso, Apollinaire, Man Ray, Jean-Paul Sartre and Samuel Beckett stood or sat (or fell) and whiled away the hours. The place is split into piano bar, chic restaurant and more lovable (and cheaper) brasserie with hedged-in pavement terrace.








