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Kimpton St Honoré Paris
An early-twentieth-century building a block behind the Palais Garnier, reworked by Charles Zana into something more Californian than the façade admits. The tenth-floor Sequoia bar runs a 360-degree view of the rooftops and the Eiffel Tower.
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The rooftop carries a minimum spend and a weekend DJ — go early on a weeknight for the view without the queue.
Getting there
- Opéra378100 m · 2 min walk
- AuberRER A220 m · 4 min walk
- Madeleine81214350 m · 7 min walk
Around the corner
Harry's New York Bar · 90 m away
Harry's New York Bar is a bar in Paris, France located at 5, Rue Daunou, between the Avenue de l'Opéra and the Rue de la Paix. It was converted from a bistro by jockey Tod Sloan in 1911 and became a popular expatriate spot during World War I. It has been frequented by a number of international celebrities and is said to be the birthplace of several classic cocktails.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Cocktail Barsstop 1 of 6 · 90 m
Harry's New York Bar
5 Rue Daunou, opened 1911 by an American jockey turned bartender. The Bloody Mary, the Side Car, the White Lady, and the French 75 were all invented here. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Coco Chanel, Humphrey Bogart, all regulars. The interior — mahogany bar, stained glass, college pennants — is unchanged.
The downstairs piano bar (Le Piano Bar du Sous-Sol) opens around 22:00 — Gershwin played here in the 1920s, supposedly composing An American in Paris in his head. Order a Bloody Mary and ask for the original 1921 recipe — they'll humour you.
- Belle Époque Parisstop 4 of 6 · 220 m
Opéra Garnier
Commissioned by Napoleon III, opened 1875. Charles Garnier's design is the Belle-Époque template: every surface ornamented, every staircase performative. The phantom is fictional but the underground lake isn't — sort of.
Self-guided tickets (paid) let you wander the grand staircase, the auditorium, and the Chagall ceiling on your own. The Opéra's library on the second floor has a small free museum — easy to miss if you don't ask. Avoid Mondays — frequent rehearsal closures.
- Paris-1900stop 6 of 6 · 390 m
Galeries Lafayette dome
1912. Slightly later than 1900 but in the same Belle Époque idiom — Ferdinand Chanut's neo-Byzantine glass dome, 33 m above the central atrium, with stained glass by Jacques Gruber. The balconies, ironwork, and dome are original.
Enter at 40 Boulevard Haussmann. Walk to the centre and look up. The first-floor balcony is the matching angle to most period photographs. The rooftop terrace (free, signposted) is a separate experience and worth the lift up.
- Paris Verticalstop 1 of 6 · 390 m
Galeries Lafayette terrace
Eighth-floor rooftop terrace, free. ~50 m above street level. Sacré-Cœur, the Opéra, and the Eiffel Tower are all visible from a single panorama. Most tourists don't know it's there.
Free — no ticket, no queue. Take the escalators (not lifts) to the top floor; rooftop signage takes you the last leg. Order a coffee at the small bar if you want to sit; otherwise just walk the perimeter.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Musée du Parfum FragonardFree perfume museum€ · 3 minA step from the Opéra Garnier, the Grasse house Fragonard fitted out a Napoléon III apartment as a perfume museum: copper stills, a wall of antique scent bottles, and a 'perfume organ' of labelled raw-material vials a nose would blend from.
- Le Petit VendômeCounter sandwiches & bistro€ · 3 minA bar-counter sandwich on a properly crackly baguette — Cantal and ham, or garlic saucisson — a minute from Place Vendôme, for the price of a coffee in the cafés around it.
- Galeries Lafayette dome & rooftopDepartment-store experience€ · 7 minWorth entering for the building rather than the goods. Jacques Gruber's 1912 stained-glass cupola hangs over the central hall; eight floors up, the open rooftop terrace gives a free 360-degree view from the Opéra to Sacré-Cœur and the Eiffel Tower.
- Sugo Pasta FrescaFresh pasta€€ · 8 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€ · 9 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.
- HigumaRamen€ · 10 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.
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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