Underground & cool · Cocktail bars · 13 picks · 8 districts

Cocktail bars and speakeasies in Paris

Speakeasies behind unmarked doors, rooftop bars and a guinguette. Every pick is re-checked for continued operation and grouped by district.

Last re-checked 22 Sep 2026 · all underground & cool → · full ledger →

★Essentials — start here (2)

• ★ Little Red Door€€€ · Cocktail bar · 3eA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–1amWorld's 50 Best
• ★ The Cambridge Public House€€€ · Cocktail bar / pub · 3eAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026Daily ~15:00–01:00World's 50 Best

1er · Louvre & Les Halles (1)District guide →

• Le Tout-Paris€€€ · Rooftop barThe 7th-floor bar at Cheval Blanc, a terrace panorama from Notre-Dame to the Eiffel Tower over the Seine. The bar takes no reservations; a summer-only rooftop, Le Céleste, sits above it.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Bar daily; no reservations at the bar

2e · Bourse & Sentier (1)District guide →

• Danico€€€ · Cocktail barReached through the Daroco restaurant off the 19th-century Galerie Vivienne, this is Nico de Soto's bar — globe-trotting flavour combinations executed with precision, his clarified and split-base drinks the things to order.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–2am

3e · Haut Marais (4)District guide →

• ★ Little Red Door€€€ · Cocktail barA fixture on the World's 50 Best list, it builds each menu around one argument — the current one ties every drink to agriculture and sustainability. The name's red door is a feint; there is no trick, just the bar.✓ Verified open · 18 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–1amWorld's 50 Best
• ★ The Cambridge Public House€€€ · Cocktail bar / pubAn English-pub format crossed with serious mixology — ranked among the World's 50 Best Bars in 2025 — with craft beer, natural wine and British bar snacks behind a traditional pub front.✓ Verified open · 22 Sep 2026Daily ~15:00–01:00World's 50 Best
• Bisou€€ · Bespoke cocktail barNo drinks menu at all: tell the bartender your mood and they build a bespoke cocktail from seasonal produce. A second bar, Bisou Canal, sits on Quai de Jemmapes in the 10th.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Daily 5pm–2am
• Candelaria€€ · Speakeasy barOrder a taco at the counter of a narrow taquería, then push through the unmarked white door at the back into the room that opened the city's speakeasy era in 2011. The cocktails stay precise and agave-led.✓ Verified open · 10 Sep 2026Bar nightly until ~2am

6e · Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1)District guide →

• Tiger Bar€€ · Gin cocktail barA 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.✓ Verified open · 9 Sep 2026Tue–Sat ~6pm–2am

7e · Eiffel Tower & Invalides (1)District guide →

• Rosa Bonheur sur Seine€€ · GuinguetteRosa Bonheur's barge moored at the Port des Invalides, with a Seine-level terrace, pizza from 5pm, a Saturday guinguette ball and a Sunday dance evening.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Tue–Sun from 6pm to midnight–1:30am

10e · Canal Saint-Martin & Gare du Nord (2)District guide →

• Lavomatic€€ · Speakeasy barA cocktail bar reached by pressing a button on a fake washing machine inside a working-looking laundromat; upstairs, pop-coloured poufs and swing seats.✓ Verified open · 15 Sep 2026Tue–Sat from 19:00 (Fri–Sat to 2am); closed Sun–Mon
• Le Syndicat€€ · Speakeasy barThe storefront is papered over with torn gig posters; the only signal is a gold metallic curtain. Inside, every cocktail is built exclusively from French spirits — Armagnac, Cognac, Calvados, Chartreuse.✓ Verified open · 21 Sep 2026Daily ~6pm–2am

11e · Oberkampf & Bastille (2)District guide →

• Le Perchoir Ménilmontant€€ · Rooftop barThe original Perchoir rooftop, on a former industrial building, with a 360° skyline that's best as the sun drops behind Sacré-Cœur.✓ Verified open · 17 Sep 2026Most evenings to 2am; rooftop seasonal
• Moonshiner€€ · Speakeasy barA working pizzeria, Da Vito, fronts the operation. The cocktail room sits behind the walk-in fridge at the back, and you get in by pulling open the fridge doors — a 1920s register of leather, low light and a record player.✓ Verified open · 19 Sep 2026Mon–Sat ~6pm–2am

19e · La Villette & Buttes-Chaumont (1)District guide →

• Combat€€ · Cocktail barA bright, women-led Belleville cocktail bar — inventive but unfussy drinks, windows that fold open over the sloping pavement in summer. A local's room, not a set-piece.✓ Verified open · 11 Sep 2026Daily ~18:00–2am (check Tue)