Would you like to impress your crush on a first date, break the routine, surprise your lover or your best friend passing through Paris? Okay, we’ve got what you need… Speakeasy and hidden bars in Paris. But can you keep the secret? After the best bars in the Latin Quarter, here are our favorite addresses where you can have a drink, play billiards, do your laundry, eat Italian food… In short, great addresses.
The most “années folles” Speakeasy in Paris
With its breathtaking decor and jazzy atmosphere, Mobster bar takes you back to the Prohibition era. What’s on your evening program? Cocktails inspired by 20th-century classics, a phonograph, art deco style and jazzy music… Can you find the phone booth and get to the Mobster bar? In the family of speakeasies and hidden bars in Paris, this is one of the best!
📍8 rue de Crussol, 75011 Paris
Paris’ most caliente hidden bar
Do you love hidden bars? At Paris Secret, we went to La Mezcaleria, the speakeasy at Hotel 1K. And the experience is worth the detour, to say the least. As soon as you push open the doors of the hotel, you’re in for a change of scenery. Floor-to-ceiling Inca motifs, golden totem poles, wall frescoes, a llama proudly enthroned at the restaurant’s entrance… The immersion in Latin America is total. But how exactly do you get to La Mezcaleria, the hidden bar at Hotel 1K? We tell you all about it!
📍13 boulevard du Temple, 75 003 Paris
Best hidden bars: a Speakeasy behind a red door…
At a bend in a Marais street: a tiny red door, lit up. But what is it hiding? A bar, of course! And not just any Little Red Door: the Little Red Door once again in the ranking of the world’s best cocktail bars for 2021. To define this secret, timeless place, the owner of Little Red Door says that ” the little red door marks the boundary between everyday reality and the plunge into this new world.” At the heart of this hushed, elegant speakeasy-like venue, we listen to jazzy music in velvet armchairs, and taste cocktails as sharp as they are bewitching.
📍60 rue Charlot, 75 003 Paris
Paris’s must-have hidden bars
Do I really need to introduce you to him? It’s so popular that it’s not really a secret anymore, yet it’s impossible not to include it in this selection of hidden bars in Paris. To access the Lavomatic, go to the rue Boulanger launderette. While some will actually do their laundry, night owls will have to pull the window of the only fake washing machine among the 5 present in this launderette. And if one too many cocktails stain your clothes, you’ll even have the privilege of having a little machine! The Laundromat? Even better than Dash 2 in 1!
📍30 Rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris
Paris: the most bewitched Speakeasy…
Part herbalist’s shop, part curiosity shop, part laboratory, the Liquorium immediately immerses you in a fascinating atmosphere. But like any self-respecting speakeasy, you’ll need to find your own entrance. To get to the heart of this secret cocktail bar, you’ll need to pass through the basement of “The Drink Doctor” brewery. “It’s sorcery Messire!”
📍11 Rue Saint-Denis, 75001 Paris
A bar hidden in a hotel basement
“They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, no, no, no” Rue de l’Échelle in Paris, this bar hidden in the basement of a hotel is making many happy… In the heart of this speakeasy with its mysterious atmosphere we’re literally transported to an Amy Winehouse song… Mysterious atmosphere, opium bed, CBD cocktails… We love it! Ready to relax in a hidden bar?
📍7 rue de l’Echelle, 75001 Paris
A Speakeasy in Paris in a former “maison de plaisirs
Freely inspired by the Parisian belle époque, Maison Souquet takes you into a phantasmagorical atmosphere where elegance, sensuality and luxury are the watchwords. Enter this former brothel and immerse yourself in a sultry atmosphere, just a stone’s throw from the Moulin Rouge. Behind a thick curtain, discover a hidden bookcase and enter the heart of an elegant speakeasy. “Le Carmen”, “La Belle Otero” or “La Castiglione”: here, sumptuous cocktails are named after courtesans… So, are you ready for a change of era?
📍10 Rue de Bruxelles, 75009 Paris
The most cosy, cosy Speakeasy
Cosy to a fault, the Hoxton hotel has taken up residence on rue du Sentier, in a private mansion in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. The Jacques Bar is a hidden bar not to be missed! In this intimate setting, you can indulge in cocktails with a Moroccan flair, all in an enchanting setting where the cleverly designed decor is inspired by Marrakech’s famous and enchanting Jardin Majorelle… Bewitching!
📍30-32 Rue du Sentier, 75002 Paris
Moonshiner: the hidden bar at the back of an Italian restaurant
Ciao tutti! In the Bastille district, at the back of Parisian pizzeria Da Vito, push open the cold room door to reach this pretty, hidden bar. Now you’re thrust into the atmosphere of a cosy secret bar straight out of the 1930s. At the Moonshiner, gilded walls, stylish bartenders and blues music will take you back to the days of Prohibition, just after La Dolce Vita.
📍5 Rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris
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