The recently revamped Artus boutique hotel is courting the cocktail crowd with its newly opened bar, Playtime. This bright and tiny space was designed under the inspiration of film and the fifties, resulting in a playfully retro feel. Electric blue walls serve as a backdrop for bright green furniture and vintage-type posters. The bar has [...]
2005, NYC: Audrey Saunders opens the Pegu Club at a time when gin has fallen out of favor and makes a significant impact on the classic cocktail revival, playing a role in revitalizing an unfashionable spirit and providing a playground for many a good barman who subsequently move on to establish some of the world’s best [...]
Today is the last day of the annual Journées du Patrimoine, during which buildings important to French heritage are open to the public, free. Planning for this event, we always consult Invisible Paris, a blog deeply knowledgable about both history and architecture in the City of Light. Here’s one of its many great recommendations. The [...]
Holiday Inn may not be the first name to spring to mind when it comes to luxury travel. But they’ve upped their game with their 4 star Notre Dame eco-hotel and topped it off with one of the city’s best rooftop views at their summer terrace bar, le Quarante Trois. Taking the elevator to the [...]
While I love a good cocktail, sometimes something else seems more appropriate. Last time I checked in on the Ciel de Paris of the Tour Montparnasse, I noted that not only had it gotten a bit tatty, but that it’s a setting better suited to sipping champagne than knocking back cocktails. It seems someone else felt [...]
The recently opened Touch’in Paris is capitalizing on the combination of cocktails and computers by taking the iPad-as-menu concept one step further with tactile table tops. I stopped into the city’s latest concept bar to see if techno-tipples are the way forward. I arrived at this Madeleine area address to find a bistro more traditional [...]
Le Burgundy, an under-the-radar 5-star hotel, is home to the modern and comfortable Baudelaire Bar – and also the location where the poet’s effects were auctioned off after his death. As part of the hotel’s Michelin-starred restaurant, the bar takes up two rooms with heavy curtains, sophisticated furnishings and a red-and-gold ceiling fresco inspired by [...]
Throughout Paris right now, flyers with the word “Wanderlust” are littered on streets and plastered on surfaces. For days, I could not figure out what this mysterious Wanderlust implied until I stumbled upon the answer while at an exhibition in the Cité de la Mode et du Design. Having an espresso in the museum café, [...]
The Hideout has a few locations around Paris – near Bastille, rue Mouffetard, and Châtelet, but I visited the one just down the street from Gare du Nord. An Irish pub that features rugby and tennis on the telly and a bustling terrasse, Le Hideout is a fab place to chill outside, watch the people [...]
Recommended by the guys over at Pokerlistings.com. For those of you who are going to Paris you will have a plethora of options in terms of what to do and where to go. There are the must-see attractions like the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower but if you are looking for an alternative night out [...]
