Underground & cool · Cocktail bar · €€€ · 2e · Bourse & Sentier
Danico
Reached through the Daroco restaurant off the 19th-century Galerie Vivienne, this is Nico de Soto's bar — globe-trotting flavour combinations executed with precision, his clarified and split-base drinks the things to order.
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Walk through Daroco to the back; the green-tiled room behind it is the bar.
Getting there
- Bourse3230 m · 4 min walk
- Quatre Septembre3350 m · 7 min walk
- Pyramides714390 m · 7 min walk
Around the corner
Galerie Vivienne · 90 m away
The Galerie Vivienne is one of the covered passages of Paris, located in the 2nd arrondissement. It is 176 metres (577 ft) long and 3 metres (9.8 ft) wide. The gallery has been registered as a historical monument since 7 July 1974.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Covered Passagesstop 2 of 6 · 90 m
Galerie Vivienne
1823. The grandest of the arcades — barrel-vaulted glass roof, mosaic floor by Italian craftsman Giandomenico Facchina, and a famous bookshop (Librairie Jousseaume) that has been there since 1826. Used as a film set every other month.
Enter from 4 Rue des Petits-Champs. Walk all the way through to the rotunda — the floor mosaic is the photograph. À Priori Thé in the middle is a classic spot for a slow tea. Exit at Rue Vivienne.
- Rainy Day Parisstop 1 of 6 · 90 m
Galerie Vivienne
1823. The grandest of the covered passages — barrel-vaulted glass, mosaic floor by Italian craftsman Giandomenico Facchina, bookshop running since 1826. Already a stop on the Covered Passages tour but the obvious starting point on a rainy day.
Enter from 4 Rue des Petits-Champs. Sit at À Priori Thé for an hour with a book — full menu, slow service, glass roof above. The Galerie Colbert (next door, sister arcade) is worth a five-minute look immediately after.
- Secret Gardensstop 2 of 6 · 290 m
Jardin du Palais-Royal
1633. The interior garden of the former royal palace, surrounded by 17th-century arcaded buildings. Quiet and almost monastic — the city's most underrated central garden. The black-and-white striped Buren columns at the south entrance (1986) are controversial but iconic.
Enter from the south through the Cour d'Honneur (Buren columns). Walk the perimeter under the arcades — the small shops are antique stamp dealers, vintage perfume merchants, and the city's best vintage tin-toy collector at no. 22 Galerie de Montpensier. The fountain in the centre and the rose garden at the north end are the picnic spots.
- Painters' Viewsstop 3 of 7 · 540 m
Pissarro at Boulevard Montmartre
Camille Pissarro spent winter 1897 in room 9 of the Grand Hôtel de Russie, on the corner of Boulevard Montmartre and Rue Drouot, painting fourteen canvases of the boulevard from the window — the same view at different times of day, in different weather, a series most museums now own one of.
Stand on the south side of Boulevard Montmartre between Rue Drouot and Rue Vivienne, looking east. The hotel building is no. 1 Boulevard Montmartre — now offices, but the third-floor windows are the painting's vantage. The Passage des Panoramas entrance is right next to it.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Daroco BourseItalian trattoria & pizza€€ · 1 minNeapolitan pizza and trattoria standards served under a mirrored ceiling in Jean-Paul Gaultier's former couture atelier off the Galerie Vivienne. The room is the headline act, but the wood-fired margherita holds its end up.
- Galerie VivienneCovered passage€ · 2 minThe grandest of the surviving 1820s arcades, built in 1823 between the Bourse and the Palais-Royal. A vaulted glass roof throws light onto floor mosaics laid by Italian craftsmen; the tenants run to rare-book dealers and a long-established tea room rather than chains.
- Le MesturetTraditional bistro€€ · 4 minA seven-days-a-week bistro near the old Bourse where the kitchen cooks blanquette de veau and bœuf bourguignon straight, with no irony attached. The set menus do most of the work of keeping the bill sane.
- HigumaRamen€ · 5 minOne of the long-standing institutions of rue Sainte-Anne, working an open kitchen and a no-reservations queue. The lamen comes in a gentle chūka-soba broth, the pan-fried gyoza are the reliable add-on, and the bill is about half a typical Parisian sit-down.
- Sugo Pasta FrescaFresh pasta€€ · 6 minA tight Roman-leaning menu of six fresh pastas a few steps from the Bourse, four of them vegetarian. The cacio e pepe leans on 18-month Pecorino Romano; the house sugo is built on Sardinian tomatoes slow-cooked four hours.
- Passage ChoiseulCovered passage€ · 6 minAt 190 metres the longest covered passage in Paris, built 1826–27 and reopened in 2013 after restoration. Céline grew up above it and set part of 'Death on the Installment Plan' here. Art-supply shops, booksellers, ateliers, and the stage door of the Bouffes-Parisiens.
Where to stay near Danico
- Hôtel Filigrane & SpaBoutique hotel & spa€€€ · 9 minA 2025 opening on rue Vivienne behind the old Bourse, worked in ink blues and forest greens. The distinction is below ground: a private indoor pool, hammam and sauna you can book by the 45-minute slot — uncommon at this size on the Right Bank.
- Hôtel ChopinBudget hotel (in a passage)€ · 11 minBuilt into the glass-roofed Passage Jouffroy in 1846, so no room faces a street — the quietest look over rooftops, and the Musée Grévin shares the arcade.
- The Hoxton, ParisDesign hotel€€ · 12 minAn 18th-century residence turned design-led social hub in Sentier, with a leafy courtyard wine bar, an all-day brasserie and a speakeasy below.
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Landmarks nearby
The district · 2e
Bourse & Sentier — Covered passages and start-upsThe smallest arrondissement, threaded with nineteenth-century glass-roofed passages and, lately, the city's tech and restaurant energy around Rue Montorgueil and the old textile Sentier.
Best for: Eaters and drinkers who want to walk home; central without the Louvre crowds.
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