Underground & cool · Cocktail bar · €€ · 19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont
Combat
A bright, women-led Belleville cocktail bar — inventive but unfussy drinks, windows that fold open over the sloping pavement in summer. A local's room, not a set-piece.
Trust the bartenders' choice. A few listings show Tuesday closed — check the night before.
Getting there
- Pyrenées11230 m · 4 min walk
- Belleville211440 m · 8 min walk
- Couronnes2500 m · 9 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Le BaratinBistro & natural wine€€ · 1 minRaquel Carena's daily blackboard — offal, fish, sweet-sour edges — helped invent Paris bistronomy and still pulls chefs on their nights off. The natural-wine list runs deep.
- Lao SiamThai / Lao€€ · 2 minA Belleville institution since 1985, founded by a Thai-Lao family and still cooking from the long menu that made its name: green papaya with pickled crab, crisp rice squares in coconut-shrimp-pork sauce, whole fish steamed in banana leaf. The décor is plain; the kitchen is not.
- The Loft Boutique HostelBoutique hostel€ · 3 minA 29-room hostel up the hill on Rue Julien Lacroix, in the thick of Belleville's bars and Chinese-Tunisian restaurants. Air-conditioned rooms, a shared kitchen, and a furnished terrace with a bar for the climb home.
- Le CadoretNeo-bistro & all-day caf退 · 3 minA Belleville corner café by day, a serious kitchen by night — revived in 2024–25 under chef Alice Neman, with a great-value chalkboard lunch.
- Le PacifiqueCantonese / dim sum€ · 4 minA Cantonese hold-out on rue de Belleville, open since 1983 and built for long tables, steamer baskets and rotisserie meats. The dim sum is the cheap pleasure — order several baskets and the bill stays low — and the kitchen runs past midnight.
- La Cantine ChinoiseChinese (Wenzhou)€ · 5 minTwo decades of Wenzhou cooking at the bottom of Belleville, run by Chef Lin and his son: hand-folded ravioli, beef noodle soup, baozi from the bakery counter. The plates land around six or seven euros, which is most of the appeal.
The district · 19e
La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont — Parks and canalsThe wild cliffs of Buttes-Chaumont, the science-museum-and-music campus of La Villette, the Bassin de la Villette's open-air bars, and a multicultural, working everyday Paris around them.
Best for: Park people, families and budget stays who want space and canal swims.
Everything we've verified in the 19e →How we verified this
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