Since the place is the third opening from the Quixotic team behind Candelaria, it’s no surprise that the drinks here are inspired and come with clever names like the “Rain Dog” (bourbon, lemon, mint) or the “Hufflepuff” (Beefeater, pimento, vermouth, lemon and tonic). Since opening in the haute Marais in 2013, it’s become a real neighborhood hotspot for both locals and visitors who come as much for the food as they do the cocktails and wine.
And even if you’re just having a Perrier, sit and you’ll receive a small bowl of peanuts covered in a wasabi shell so good they’re destined to disappear in seconds. Drink pricing is indicative that you’re somewhere exceptional (the ingredients used include caviar powder, for example) but your euros will go along way.
CHAMPAGNE BAR NEAR ME WINDOWS
There are three sultry salons to choose from for enjoying a beverage or a bite-each more austere and lush than the last: the Jardin d’Hiver (or winter garden) with plush arm chairs along the windows and facing the street the bar area's onyx tables, crystal chandeliers, and giant gilded mirrors and the library rotunda with hundreds of books, a golden ceiling that twinkles, and a cozy hidden nook for private rendezvous. As the third member of the Collection Maison Particuliers group, with locations in Pigalle (Maison Souquet) and near the Opéra Garnier (Maison Athénée), this new Marais Maison is devoted to French novelist Marcel Proust, and the Belle Epoque period he and his creative contemporaries lived in. Menus are in English, and each drink is listed with three easy adjectives to help describe them such as “velvety, earthy, fresh” for the signature Cigarette After Sex, which has been on the menu since the bar opened in 2019.Īs you walk into this 23-room boutique hotel-newly-opened in January 2023-you’ll struggle to choose a seat not because it’s crowded, but because there are so many exquisite options. The cocktails change regularly, and there’s always a weekly special such as the recent Trance Dance featuring apple, cinnamon, gingerbread, and rum. While you can book one of the tables or plush velvet banquettes, there’s a room-for-everyone vibe at the living room-esque space (complete with a Chesterfield couch) where the distinguished color scheme includes forest greens and woodsy browns and the deco includes 18th century oil paintings of hounds. You may have to speak an octave higher than normal over the Tears for Fears blasting from the speakers to hear whomever you’re chatting with. Denoted as such by the three co-founders, who met and worked in the Big Smoke, this pub in the Marais is always popping.
No you’re not in London, but yes this is most definitely a British-inspired watering hole. Generally, there’s ambient music overhead, but in the evenings there’s live music-either from the grand piano, a singing duo, or even Mike D of the Beastie Boys who spun a late-night DJ set.
He added a bit of rock n’ roll to four original chandeliers by draping them with metal chains and the central horseshoe-shaped bar is the perfect stage for the uniformed barmen who occasionally go all Tom Cruise performing tricks of the trade. But the furniture and overall ambiance was given a contemporary facelift thanks to designer Chahan Minassian when the hotel reopened in 2017. Most of the room’s original fixtures remain intact: the soaring slabs of marble walls, the fresco-painted ceiling, the gilded moldings, and the pane-glass windows draped with curtains that face Place de la Concorde. Located within the remodeled Hôtel de Crillon, a certified palace dating back to the late 18th century, this high-class cocktail joint was created with the intention of drawing in fashionable Parisians, and, as the name implies, ambassadors and other dignitaries.
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