Must-see nightlife in France

  • Baby Club exterior

    Baby Club

    Marseille

    Located in the bohemian neighborhood of La Plaine, Baby Club offers the perfect atmosphere for an abandoned after-hours party. Look for its garish zebra…

  • Le Refectoire dining room

    R2

    Marseille

    Together, Le Rooftop – a spectacular open-air cocktail bar with rotating DJs playing house, electro, disco and rock – and Reverso – the restaurant space…

  • Au Général La Fayette

    Paris

    With its archetypal belle époque decor (brass fittings, polished wood, large murals) and excellent wines by the glass, this old-style brasserie is an…

  • Fluctuat Nec Mergitur

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    On pedestrianised place de la République, this glass-box cafe-bar and sprawling terrace overlook the square's 9.4m-high bronze statue of Marianne, symbol…

  • Café Laiton

    Bordeaux

    Only in gourmet Bordeaux can the age-old local food market boast a nouvelle génération coffee shop. Argentinian-born, Bordeaux-raised Gaele Nadur is the…

  • L’Académie de la Bière

    Latin Quarter

    Serious students of Belgian beer should head to this ‘beer academy’ to try its 15 on tap or choose from more than 150 bottled varieties, including…

  • Les Sans-Culottes

    Paris

    This old-world cafe-bar and bistro is one of the longest-standing addresses on ancient rue de Lappe. Many an unsuspecting punter comes here because of its…

  • Le 50

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    HQ for discerning coffee lovers in Belleville since 2019, this vintage corner cafe with wood panelling and signature blue bistro tables is a simple yet…

  • Café des Deux Moulins

    Montmartre & Northern Paris

    Midway along food-shop-lined rue Lepic, neon-lit Café des Deux Moulins is the much-loved cafe where Amélie worked in the eponymous film. Head beyond the…

  • Dose

    Montmartre & Northern Paris

    A convenient spot for coffee after visiting nearby Atelier de Lumières and a popular weekend spot with families frequenting the grassy Square des…

  • Brass'éliande

    Besançon

    This snug, woodsy pub is strung with fairy light and awash with a soft rock soundtrack – it's an easy-going den in which to perch on a bar stool and sip…

  • Café de la Paix

    La Rochelle

    Sit inside to appreciate the full frescoed-ceiling-and-gilt-mirrored grandeur of this timeless historic cafe, around since the belle époque, and a…

  • Black List

    Bordeaux

    For serious coffee lovers, nothing beats the beans that arrive at this coffee shop freshly roasted from Paris' Belleville Brûlerie. In a tiny but…

  • Frog & British Library

    Paris

    This spacious, English pub–French brasserie near the Bibliothèque Nationale de France is propped up by expats and French students who flock here between…

  • Koeben

    Bordeaux

    Coffee shop, tea room, upmarket grocery and design-cool boutique: overnight this Scandinavian drink-dine-shop hybrid upped the street cred of fashionable…

  • Terres de Café

    St-Germain & Les Invalides

    'Roasted with goodness' is the strapline of this specialist coffee roaster whose pocket-sized coffee shop on ave de la Bourdonnais is the perfect bolthole…

  • Café des Anges

    Paris

    With its pastel green–shaded paintwork and locals sipping coffee beneath the red awning on its busy pavement terrace, Angels Cafe lives up to the …

  • Micro Brasserie Balthazar

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Balthazar's house brews, such as La Vibe (fruity pale ale), La Badas (black IPA), La Pickpocket (a double IPA), L'Ibu Profane (session IPA) and La…

  • Wild & The Moon

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Wild & The Moon's largest space yet, this newly opened hangout has taken over a former wine bar, complete with original vintage signage and a generously…

  • Banana Café

    Bordeaux

    What with its fabulous gluten-free cooking, chic interior design and Soundcloud page featuring the fantastic playlists spun here during Sunday brunch,…

  • La BerGamothée

    Clermont-Ferrand

    If you think tea tastes better in a homely living room with a sprinkling of feminist activism (and a heartfelt canine welcome), then La BerGamothée might…

  • Chez Bouboule

    Montmartre & Northern Paris

    Pétanque game washed out? Head to Chez Bouboule, which has a packed-sand indoor boulodrome (pitch for playing the bowls-like sport) right inside the…

  • Café Delmas

    Latin Quarter

    Enviably situated on tree-studded place de la Contrescarpe, Delmas is perfect for un café, all-day breakfast or St-Germain Spritz (St-Germain liqueur,…

  • Esperance Café

    Nantes

    Sacks of raw beans waiting to be roasted fill one corner of this specialist coffee shop, a five-minute walk from Les Machines de l'Île de Nantes. Patrice…

  • Fondation Café

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    One of the city's smallest cafes, Fondation has just three teeny tables inside and four on the pavement outside (and no toilet). Yet Parisians flock here…

  • Le Bar du Caveau

    Paris

    The wine bar of neighbouring restaurant Le Caveau du Palais is an enchanting spot for a glass of wine from France's flagship regions accompanied by a…

  • L'Arbane

    St-Germain & Les Invalides

    Stroll past the many upmarket art galleries on rue Guénégaud to uncover this sharp cocktail club with steel-grey façade and glitzy bar decorated in gold…

  • 10 Bar Odéon

    St-Germain & Les Invalides

    'Le Dix’ has been a student favourite since 1955, not least for its cheap sangria and grog. Its grungy interior, complete with marble-topped bistro tables…

  • Le Taquin

    Bordeaux

    Across from the river, by city gate Porte de la Monnaie, serious cocktails are shaken with style by mixologist Ben at this chic cocktail bar. Steel-grey…

  • Le Network

    Lille

    Central Lille's hottest club has two dance floors, three bars, plenty of flashing lights and space for 700 revellers. On most nights the music is three…

  • Ô Chateau

    Paris

    Wine aficionados can thank this young, fun, cosmopolitan wine bar for bringing affordable tasting to Paris. Choose from over 50 grands vins served by the…

  • La Pelle Café

    Bordeaux

    With exposed gold-stone walls and a soothing, slate-blue colour palette, this contemporary coffee shop in Bordeaux's vintage wine-merchant district is a…

  • Marlette

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    This snug, two-room ode to good coffee (by Parisian roasters Coutume) in Haut Marais is the latest opening by coffee-shop empire Marlette from Brittany's…

  • Dose

    Latin Quarter

    Artisan Breton roastery Caffè Cataldi supplies the beans for a potent dose of caffeine at this hip coffee shop and organic juice bar. Plump for a lovely…

  • Bar des Ferrailleurs

    Paris

    Steampunk-style vintage bric-a-brac forms an organised state of chaos at this throbbing dive bar, one of the busiest on bar-lined rue de Lappe near…

  • Café Gusco

    Bordeaux

    From the miniature bouquets of dried flowers wedged in coffee beans in glass vases on the tables to the peppermint-green walls and wicker lampshades,…

  • Le Corneille

    Nantes

    Squirreled behind the imposing Théâtre Graslin on a tiny car-free street, the festive pavement terrace of this neighbourhood cafe with orange awning…

  • Le Fumoir

    Paris

    This colonial-style bar-restaurant is a fine spot to sip top-notch gin from quality glassware while nibbling olives from the vintage mahogany bar, or…

  • Loustic

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Brit-born, Paris-adopted Channa Galhenage is the barista energy behind this north Marais espresso bar. Hermès wallpaper, geometric prints and 'golden…

  • Peniche Marcounet

    Le Marais, Ménilmontant & Belleville

    Moored by the Pont Marie in the Parc Rives de Seine, this beautiful 1925-built timber barge has a cosy bar onboard, and a fabulous umbrella-shaded summer…

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