Underground & cool · Bespoke cocktail bar · €€ · 3e · Haut Marais
Bisou
No drinks menu at all: tell the bartender your mood and they build a bespoke cocktail from seasonal produce. A second bar, Bisou Canal, sits on Quai de Jemmapes in the 10th.
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No reservations; arrive early. There's a terrace.
Getting there
- Filles Du Calvaire8110 m · 2 min walk
- Oberkampf59180 m · 3 min walk
- Saint-Sébastien Froissart8340 m · 6 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Cocktail Barsstop 5 of 6 · 230 m
Little Red Door
60 Rue Charlot, opened 2012 — one of the first wave of Paris speakeasies, now one of the world's most-awarded cocktail bars (top 10 globally most years). Drinks are conceptual and themed annually; the menu is a picture-book that changes every year.
There's no actual little red door — the entrance is the regular wooden door at no. 60. Reservations recommended weekends. Order from the printed picture-book; the bartenders will explain each drink. Cash or card.
- Markets of Parisstop 1 of 6 · 310 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. Named for the red-clothed orphans of a nearby 16th-century orphanage. Now equal parts produce and prepared-food stalls; the Moroccan and Italian counters at lunch are excellent.
Closed Mondays. Lunch is the move — three or four prepared-food counters serve actual meals at communal tables in the back. The Moroccan tagine counter is the local favourite; arrive at noon to beat the queue. Closes 14:30.
- Rainy Day Parisstop 3 of 6 · 310 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. The covered hall has prepared-food counters with communal tables: Moroccan tagines, Italian pasta, Lebanese mezze. A reliable rainy-lunch.
Closed Mondays. Lunch is the move — counters serve until 14:30. The Moroccan tagine counter is the local favourite; arrive at noon to beat the queue.
- Upper Maraisstop 2 of 6 · 310 m
Marché des Enfants Rouges
39 Rue de Bretagne, founded 1615 — the oldest covered market in Paris. Equal parts produce and prepared-food stalls. The market exists today because in 1912 the city wanted to demolish it; locals successfully petitioned the heritage office and it was saved.
Closed Mondays. Lunch counters until 14:30; the Moroccan tagine and Italian deli are the standouts. For a takeaway pastry, look for the Lebanese counter in the south-east corner.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Little Red DoorCocktail bar€€€ · 3 minA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.
- CandelariaSpeakeasy bar€€ · 3 minOrder a taco at the counter of a narrow taquería, then push through the unmarked white door at the back into the room that opened the city's speakeasy era in 2011. The cocktails stay precise and agave-led.
- Le BaravWine bar with food€ · 4 minA corner wine bar with some 250 references you can drink on site or carry out from the attached cave, set against boards of charcuterie and cheese. Lunch is a short list of tartines, salads and a homemade plat.
- The Cambridge Public HouseCocktail bar / pub€€€ · 6 minAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.
- Chez OmarNorth African couscous€€ · 6 minAn old-Marais brasserie that has poured couscous for decades — merguez, lamb brochettes, or the mixed-meat royale — in a room that fills loud and fast.
- Le Repaire de CartoucheClassic bistro / game€€ · 7 minRodolphe Paquin has cooked here since 1997 and the room still runs on terrines, game and the kind of pâté en croûte that takes a day to build. The €20 lunch is the way in; in autumn the chalkboard turns to hare and venison.
Where to stay near Bisou
- Hôtel Ginette à la FolieBoutique hotel€€ · 4 minA four-star between République and Oberkampf whose rooftop is planted with two fig trees. Rooms are individually decorated, with a spa that can be booked out privately, within a short walk of the canal.
- Hôtel Suzie BlueBoutique hotel€€ · 5 minThirty-one rooms behind a ground-floor coffee bar, done by Dorothée Delaye in wood, fabric and handmade lamps; the bathrooms run small.
- Edgar Suites – Jules FerryServiced apartments€€ · 8 minEleven serviced apartments on the boulevard that edges the Canal Saint-Martin, each with a full kitchen and its own layout, with hotel-style cleaning and check-in but no lobby theatre — an apartment you can book for two nights.
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The district · 3e
Haut Marais — The upper MaraisThe quieter, cooler half of the Marais — galleries, the Carnavalet and Picasso museums, the Marché des Enfants Rouges, and small designers on Rue de Bretagne. Medieval streets with a contemporary tenant list.
Best for: Design and gallery people who want the Marais without the worst of the crush.
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