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You haven't seen the City of Lights until you've seen the city at night. Throngs pour into popular streets, filling the air with the melody of engaged conversation and clinking glasses. This is when locals let down their hair and reveal their true bonhomie, laughing and dancing, flirting and talking. Parisians love to savor life together: they dine out, drink endless espressos, offer innumerable toasts, and are often so reluctant to separate that they party all night.
Parisians go out weekends and weeknights, late and early. They tend to frequent the same places once they've found spots they like: it could be a wine bar, a corner café, a hip music club, or, more and more, a chic cocktail bar in an out-of-the-way neighborhood. A wise way to spend an evening is to pick an area in a neighborhood that interests you, then give yourself time to browse. Parisians also love to bar-hop, and the energy shifts throughout the evening, so be prepared to follow the crowds.
An updated version of the classic tiki lounge, this stylish option in the hip South Pigalle (SoPi) neighborhood comes complete with lurid lighting, life-size totems, and retro rattan furniture. All the exotic drinks you'd expect at a Polynesian beach hut (or '60s motel lounge) are here—including fruity cocktails, a range of rums, and punch bowls with names like Amazombie.
Set in a vaulted cellar under a chic Italian restaurant, this speakeasy-style bar lets you imbibe all the classics (Negroni, Sidecar, Amaretto Sour, Cosmo, etc.) along with deliciously romantic concoctions (like the Lolita) accompanied by small plates and the strains of a vinyl jukebox.
Splashes of neon add a dash of glitz to this Japanese-chic bar attached to a sophisticated Nipponese restaurant set in an elegant Paris town house. A choice menu of exotic Asian-themed cocktails (e.g., the Akira, with rum, apricot liqueur, jasmine syrup, wasabi, mango, and green tea) is accompanied by Japanese finger food.
Any place whose tagline is "cocktails and pajamas" is bound to be a good time, especially when located in the vaulted 17th-century cellar of a townhouse smack dab on the Place des Vosges. Surprising cocktails fuel the anything-goes atmosphere that often includes late-night dancing and revelry.
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