Underground & cool · Gin cocktail bar · €€ · 6e · Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Tiger Bar
A Saint-Germain bar built around gin — more than 200 bottles on the back wall and a menu that treats juniper as a subject rather than a base. Quiet street, serious list.
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Tell them what you usually drink and they will point you somewhere odder; closed Sundays.
Getting there
- Mabillon10120 m · 2 min walk
- Saint-Germain-des-Prés4190 m · 4 min walk
- Saint-Sulpice4310 m · 6 min walk
Around the corner
Pierre Hermé · 0 m away
Pierre Hermé is a French pastry chef and chocolatier. He began his career at the age of 14 as an apprentice to Gaston Lenôtre. Called "the Picasso of Pastry" by Vogue, Hermé was awarded the title of World's Best Pastry Chef in 2016 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants. He was also ranked the fourth most influential French person in the world by Vanity Fair. In 1998, Hermé created his own brand with Charles Znaty. He has written or co-written over 40 books.
Wikipedia ↗Walks that pass nearby
- Sweet Parisstop 6 of 6 · 0 m
Pierre Hermé
72 Rue Bonaparte. The contemporary master — credited with reinventing the macaron as a pastry vehicle for unexpected flavours (rose-litchi-raspberry; truffle; olive oil and mandarin). The Saint-Germain shop is the original 2002 boutique.
Smaller and quicker than Ladurée. Buy a small box of six different flavours — at this price-per-bite it's worth tasting widely. The Ispahan (rose-litchi-raspberry) is the signature; the seasonal flavours change every few months and are usually superb.
- Saint-Germain in 90 minutesstop 2 of 6 · 100 m
Place Saint-Sulpice
Dominated by the unfinished towers of the Église Saint-Sulpice — second-largest church in Paris after Notre-Dame, begun 1646, never quite completed. The fountain in the centre (1844) features four bishop-orators of the Ancien Régime, none of them ever actually cardinals — hence the local nickname "Fontaine des Quatre-Points-Cardinaux" ("never cardinals").
Inside the church (free), the gnomon — a brass meridian line — runs across the south transept floor; sunlight strikes it at noon, marking the day of the year. Used by Voltaire and Diderot for measurements; the Da Vinci Code made it briefly famous to the wrong audience.
- Literary Cafésstop 4 of 7 · 220 m
Les Deux Magots
Two doors down from Flore and its eternal rival. Named for the two Chinese figurines ("magots") above the bar — leftover signage from a silk shop that occupied the space before 1885. Picasso, Joyce, Brecht, all regulars.
Sit on the terrace facing Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés — the church across the way is the oldest in Paris. The two figurines are inside, behind the bar; ask the staff to point them out. Service is brisk; if you want to linger, order a second drink.
- Where the Writers Livedstop 3 of 6 · 290 m
Sartre & Beauvoir, Hôtel La Louisiane
60 Rue de Seine. Sartre and Beauvoir lived here in adjacent rooms in the 1940s — small, cheap, with a curving Art Nouveau staircase. Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex partly in room 50; Miles Davis stayed here on his first visits to Paris.
Still operating as a hotel — the lobby is open to the public, with a small display of the philosophers' invoices and Beauvoir's room key on the wall. Look but don't loiter; rooms 50 and 60 are upstairs and not visitable.
Within a few minutes' walk
- Musée national Eugène-DelacroixArtist house-museum€ · 5 minDelacroix took this apartment and built the garden studio behind it in 1857 to be near the Saint-Sulpice murals he was finishing, and died here in 1863. The real draw is the green courtyard and the purpose-built atelier off it.
- Little BreizhCrêperie€ · 5 minA small Saint-Germain room where the buckwheat is organic and the galettes are folded with intent. The goat's-cheese-and-honey galette and a dessert crêpe of honey with buckwheat ice cream are the reasons to book.
- L'Avant Comptoir de la MerStanding seafood wine bar€€ · 6 minCamdeborde's standing seafood annexe: a zinc bar, a corridor, and fifty photo-posters strung overhead in lieu of a menu. The warm whelks with wasabi mayo and the razor clams marinière justify the elbowing.
- Le Comptoir du RelaisBistro / brasserie€€ · 6 minThe counter that launched a thousand bistronomy imitations, now under Bruno Doucet but unchanged in character. By day it serves brasserie plates and country terrines without a reservation; by night it turns into a prix-fixe siege.
- Kodawari Ramen (Yokochō)Ramen€€ · 7 minAn Odéon ramen-ya dressed as a Tokyo back-alley, with house-made noodles and broth and a Bib Gourmand for value. The chicken-based shoyu and shio bowls do the heavy lifting, with gyoza alongside.
- The Red Wheelbarrow BookstoreIndependent bookshop€ · 11 minPenelope Fletcher's English-language bookshop, facing the Luxembourg gardens — a tightly chosen Left Bank selection of literary fiction, poetry, small-press and food writing, with the bilingual children's offshoot next door.
Where to stay near Tiger Bar
- Hôtel des MarronniersGarden boutique hotel€€ · 6 minReached down a paved courtyard off rue Jacob, with a chestnut-tree garden where breakfast is served in summer and a glass conservatory looking onto it.
- La Villa Saint-Germain-des-PrésDesign hotel€€€ · 7 minTwenty-two rooms on rue Jacob, the bookish Left Bank street that has housed writers since the eighteenth century, redesigned by Bruno Borrione with clean lines and a counter-current pool and sauna in the basement.
- Hôtel Dame des ArtsRooftop-view design hotel€€€ · 11 minA board-formed concrete building at the Danton–Saint-Germain corner, interiors by Raphael Navot, opened 2023. The seventh-floor terrace gives a true 360 — Eiffel Tower one way, Notre-Dame the other.
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Landmarks nearby
The district · 6e
Saint-Germain-des-Prés — The literary Left BankThe cafés where the existentialists held court — Flore, Deux Magots, Lipp — plus the Luxembourg Gardens and the city's densest run of galleries and antiquaires. Expensive, polished, and aware of it.
Best for: Those who want the postcard Left Bank and have the budget for it.
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