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.
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.
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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