Do you want to blow your crush’s mind on a first date, break the routine, surprise your lover or your best friend passing through Paris? Okay, we’ve got just 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 places to go.
Le Mobster, the most “années folles” speakeasy in Paris
With its breathtaking decor and jazzy atmosphere, Mobster bar takes you back to the Prohibition era. On the menu for your evening? Cocktails inspired by 20th-century classics, a phonograph, art deco style and jazzy music… Can you find the phone booth and get into Mobster bar? In the family of speakeasies and hidden bars in Paris, this is one of the best!
📍Location: 8 rue de Crussol, 75011 Paris
Le Monastic, a speakeasy dedicated to rum in a former chapel
Renamed Le Monastic, the place has retained all its old-world beauty to take our breath away even today. In this completely restored building, the bar specializes in rum, offering 400 references from 35 countries and the world’s finest distilleries. Rest assured, the chapel has been desacralized for years. A unique place to discover!
📍Location: 3 Cour de la Reine Margot, 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux
La Mezcaleria, Paris’s most caliente hidden bar
Do you love hidden bars? At Paris Secret, we went to La Mezcaleria, the speakeasy in the Hotel 1K. And the experience is well worth the detour, to say the least. As soon as you open the doors, you’re in for a change of scenery. Floor-to-ceiling Inca motifs, golden totem poles, mural frescoes, a llama standing proudly at the entrance to the restaurant… The immersion in Latin America is total. But just how do you get to La Mezcaleria, the hidden bar at Hotel 1K? We tell you all about it!
📍Location: 13 boulevard du Temple, 75 003 Paris
Le Lavomatic, Paris’s most essential hidden bar
Do I really need to introduce you to this bar in Oberkampf? 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 get to the Lavomatic, go to the launderette on rue Boulanger. While some will actually do their laundry there, night owls will have to pull open the window of the only fake washing machine among the 5 present in this launderette. And if one too many cocktails leave a stain on your clothes, you’ll even have the privilege of washing yourself! The Lavomatic? Even better than Dash 2 in 1!
📍Location: 30 Rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris
Le Liquorium, the most bewitched speakeasy…
Part herbalist’s shop, part curiosity shop, part laboratory, the Liquorium immediately plunges you into 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 have to pass through the basement of “The Drink Doctor” brewery. “C’est sorcellerie Messire!”
📍Location: 11 Rue Saint-Denis, 75001 Paris
Rehab, 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 are literally transported to an Amy Winehouse song… Mysterious atmosphere, opium bed, CBD cocktails… We love it! Ready to relax in a hidden bar?
📍Location: 7 rue de l’Echelle, 75001 Paris
Maison Souquet, a Paris Speakeasy in a former “maison de plaisirs
Freely inspired by the Parisian belle époque, Maison Souquet transports you into a phantasmagorical atmosphere where elegance, sensuality and luxury are the watchwords. Enter this former brothel and plunge into a sultry atmosphere, just a stone’s throw from the Moulin Rouge. Behind a thick curtain, discover a hidden library 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?
📍Location: 10 Rue de Bruxelles, 75009 Paris
Le Jacques Bar, the cosiest speakeasy
Cosy as can be, the Hotel Hoxton has taken up residence on rue du Sentier, in a private mansion in Paris’s 18th arrondissement. Inside, you’ll find an unmissable hidden bar: the Jacques Bar! In this intimate setting, you can indulge in cocktails with a Moroccan flavour, in an enchanting setting where the cleverly designed decor is inspired by the famous and enchanting Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech… Bewitching!
📍Location: 30-32 Rue du Sentier, 75002 Paris
Lombem – and its hidden rodeo
Specializing in wood-fired grilled meats, Lombem hides a magnificent vaulted room in the basement. Open every Friday and Saturday night, this speakeasy offers 100% French spirits. But the highlight of the show is the mechanical bull, which we love to challenge throughout the evening. Yeeeeehaw cowboy!
📍Location: 22 Passage des Panoramas, 75002 Paris
Le 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. You’re now propelled 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.
📍Location: 5 Rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris
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