Underground & cool · Free live-rock club · € · 12e · Bastille, Bercy & Aligre
Supersonic
A Bastille rock bar that has put on free concerts most nights since 2016, across two rooms and a mezzanine where a mock food-truck bar looks down on the stage. Three bands deep, the late set holding until six at weekends.
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Come for the free early sets and stay for the late one; the mezzanine has the cleanest sightline.
Getting there
- Bastille158310 m · 6 min walk
- Ledru Rollin8420 m · 8 min walk
- Quai de la Rapée5500 m · 9 min walk
Walks that pass nearby
- Bouillons & Brasseriesstop 4 of 6 · 310 m
Brasserie Bofinger
5-7 Rue de la Bastille, opened 1864 — claims to be the oldest brasserie in Paris. The first Parisian establishment to serve draught beer. The stained-glass dome is 1919 and original; ask for a table directly under it.
When booking, ask for "sous la coupole" — under the dome — that's the room you came for. The choucroute is the menu staple; the seafood plateau is also excellent and fairly priced compared to Le Dôme.
- Marais & Bastillestop 3 of 6 · 320 m
Place de la Bastille
The fortress was demolished in 1789; the marks on the pavement around the Colonne de Juillet trace where its walls stood. The column itself commemorates the 1830 revolution, not 1789.
The cobble outline of the fortress walls is on the western side of the square — easy to miss in traffic. Take Rue Saint-Antoine back west; the fastest way to Hôtel de Ville is along Rue de Rivoli, on the south side of the street under the arcades.
- Hidden Parisstop 4 of 6 · 470 m
Rue Crémieux
A 144 m pedestrianised street in the 12th, lined with pastel-painted houses (built 1865 as workers' housing). Photographers descended on it after Instagram in 2017; the residents petitioned the city to ban photography. The city said no.
Two blocks south of Gare de Lyon, between Rue de Bercy and Rue de Lyon. Be polite — actual people live here, and several have signs in their windows asking you not to use their stoops as a photo set.
- Markets of Parisstop 3 of 6 · 600 m
Marché d'Aligre
Place d'Aligre. The cheapest market in central Paris and the only one with a brocante (flea market) running daily next to the produce stalls. The covered Marché Beauvau on the same square has the more upmarket cheeses and traiteurs.
Tuesday–Sunday mornings. Closes 13:30. The brocante is good for vintage glass and old kitchenware; haggle hard. Le Baron Rouge wine bar on the corner of Rue Théophile Roussel is the post-shopping local stop — Sundays they shuck oysters at the door.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Coulée verte René-DumontElevated walk€ · 6 minNearly five kilometres of linear park along a railway viaduct closed in 1969 — the elevated walk that predates and prompted New York's High Line. The first stretch runs ten metres up over the brick arches of the Viaduc des Arts, whose vaults hold craft workshops.
- Le BalajoHistoric dance hall€€ · 9 minA 1936 musette hall on the old accordion street, the Balajo keeps its mirrored Deco room and still opens it on Monday afternoons for a thé dansant before the week tips into salsa classes and clubbing to dawn.
- Le Temps des CerisesTraditional bistro€€ · 9 minA genuinely small bistro on a quiet street near the Bastille edge of the 4th, where the weekday lunch still lands at €13 and the zinc counter predates most of the neighbourhood's boutiques. Plat-du-jour French without apology.
- Pavillon de l'ArsenalArchitecture & urbanism centre€ · 10 minParis's free centre for architecture and urbanism, in an 1879 iron-and-glass hall by the Seine. A large permanent scale model of the city covers the ground floor; the temporary shows upstairs argue over how the place should be built next.
- Le Baron RougeMarket wine bar€ · 11 minWine straight from the barrel beside the Marché d'Aligre; in oyster season the crowd drinks standing on the pavement off upturned barrels.
- Born Bad Record ShopRecord shop€ · 11 minTrading since 1999 and the eastern anchor of Paris vinyl, near Bastille. The bins lean garage, punk, post-punk, cold wave, surf, soul and French 1960s, in rare originals and quality reissues, much of it on the shop's own label.
Where to stay near Supersonic
- Maison TraversièreBoutique hotel€€ · 8 minA 32-room hotel on a slip of side street off the Gare de Lyon concourse, close enough to wheel a suitcase to the platform but angled away from the noise. The rooms were redone one at a time, each different.
- SO/ ParisRooftop-view splurge hotel€€€ · 10 minA bold five-star on the Seine whose top-floor Bonnie wraps a 360° terrace around the city, with Sunday sunset DJ sets. A splurge you remember.
- OFF Paris SeineFloating hotel€€€ · 15 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.
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Landmarks nearby
The district · 12e
Bastille, Bercy & Aligre — Eastern, everydayThe Marché d'Aligre, the Coulée verte's elevated walk, the wine-village of Bercy, and the Bois de Vincennes beyond. Residential and underrated, with the best daily market in central Paris.
Best for: Repeat visitors who want to live like a resident, market bag in hand.
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