Late-Night Bars
Le Bar Dix Incredibly lively bar, aimed at people who like to talk, smoke and drink. Happy hour 6–9pm.
Le Bar Dix
Le Crocodile Potent
cocktails are what this schoolroom-themed bar is all about. Choose from
350 combinations. Happy hour runs from 10pm until midnight. El Palenque This lively Argentinian place brings Latin America to the Latin Quarter.
Also serves great meat dishes. Café Mabillon The place that never closes. Hang out on the terrace with a few drinks and watch the world go by. Happy hour 7–9pm.
Café Mabillon
L’Assignat Pleasant, bright family-run L’Assignat is full of regulars propping up the bar with a beer or a glass of wine. Mezzanine The lounge bar of the legendary Alcazar is the place to be seen. Drinks are not expensive given the buzz and the wonderful location. AlcazarLe Mondrian Just the place to wind down after a night of joie de vivre. Le Bob Cool On
a quiet backstreet, this shabby-chic bar plays host to thirsty local
nighthawks as well as trendier partygoers on latenight cocktails. Coolin An
Irish bar that doesn’t try too hard. Appeals to drinkers, talkers and
listeners of all ages, who like their draught Guinness with a blarney
chaser. L’Urgence Bar Hit
this hospital-themed bar for cocktails with names like “Laxative” and
“Liposuction”, served in either a test-tube or baby’s bottle.
Literary Haunts
La Palette This café has been patronized by the likes of Henry Miller Apollinaire and Jacques Prévert. 43 rue de Seine, 75006 Open 8am–2am Mon–Sat
Les Deux Magots This
was home to the literary and artistic élite of Paris as well as a
regular haunt of Surrealists such as François Mauriac .
Café de Flore Guillaume Apollinaire founded his literary magazine, Les Soirées de Paris, here in 1912 .
Café de Flore
Le Procope The oldest café in Paris, this was a meeting place for writers such as Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac and Zola. Brasserie Lipp Ernest Hemingway pays homage to this café in A Moveable Feast. It was also visited by Symbolist novelist André Gide. Hotel Pont Royal Henry Miller drank here at the time of writing his Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer. Shakespeare and Co This renowned bookshop was once described by novelist Henry Miller as a “wonderland of books” (see Shakespeare and Co).
Shakespeare and Co
Le Sélect F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote were among many American writers who drank in this café-restaurant. La Coupole Opened
in 1927, this former coal depot was transformed by artists into a
lavish, Art Deco brasserie. It attracted such luminaries as Louis Aragon
and Françoise Sagan .
Le Petit St-Benoît Camus, de Beauvoir and James Joyce are among the many writers who once took their daily coffee here. 4 rue St Benoît, 75006 Open noon–midnight daily
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