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…
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…
Marseille
Together, Le Rooftop – a spectacular open-air cocktail bar with rotating DJs playing house, electro, disco and rock – and Reverso – the restaurant space…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Bordeaux
Coffee shop, tea room, upmarket grocery and design-cool boutique: overnight this Scandinavian drink-dine-shop hybrid upped the street cred of fashionable…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Bordeaux
What with its fabulous gluten-free cooking, chic interior design and Soundcloud page featuring the fantastic playlists spun here during Sunday brunch,…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Nantes
Squirreled behind the imposing Théâtre Graslin on a tiny car-free street, the festive pavement terrace of this neighbourhood cafe with orange awning…
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…
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…
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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