Underground & cool · Floating music venue · €€ · 13e · Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles
Petit Bain
A three-level barge moored under the Mitterrand library, Petit Bain stacks a 450-capacity concert hall, a restaurant and a planted rooftop terrace over the Seine, with programming from international metal to club nights and activist festivals.
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The rooftop opens earlier for drinks with an unobstructed river view; come up before the late set downstairs.
Getting there
- Quai de la Gare6400 m · 8 min walk
- Bibliothèque François Mitterrand Emile Durkheim14RER C610 m · 11 min walk
- Gare de Bercy614620 m · 12 min walk
Within a few minutes' walk
- Les FrigosArtists' studios in a cold-store€ · 8 minA 1920s refrigerated railway warehouse squatted by artists in the 1980s, now roughly 80 studios behind corridors layered in graffiti, over 7,000 m² along the Seine. The ground-floor L'Aiguillage gallery shows year-round.
- DjoonHouse & disco club€€ · 8 minOpen since 2003 under the elevated métro near the Seine, Djoon has spent two decades defending house, disco and soulful music on a 300-capacity floor built around one of the better soundsystems in the city.
Where to stay near Petit Bain
- Urban Bivouac HotelBudget boutique hotel€€ · 21 minA 32-room three-star in Tolbiac, six floors of compact, well-resolved rooms that make a virtue of small footprints. A few minutes from Olympiades on line 14, at prices that undercut most of the central 13th.
- OFF Paris SeineFloating hotel€€€ · 23 minA barge built from two catamaran hulls and moored below Gare d'Austerlitz, with 58 rooms arranged around a glass-roofed plunge pool that opens to the river on one side. The only hotel here where the floor is technically the Seine.
- Le Quartier Bercy SquareBoutique hotel€€ · 23 minA townhouse set back from the boulevard behind its own private garden, with 57 rooms that all face the green rather than the street. Walking distance to Bercy Village and Gare de Lyon, one of the calmer addresses in the 12th.
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The district · 13e
Chinatown & Butte-aux-Cailles — Asia and street artParis's Chinatown of tower blocks and excellent Southeast-Asian kitchens, the village-like Butte-aux-Cailles with its Art-Deco pool, and a riverfront of street-art murals and barge clubs.
Best for: Eaters chasing pho and bo bun, and anyone bored of the centre.
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