I have a passion for hunting down addresses for hotel bars in Paris where one can enjoy good cocktails. I have already dedicated several articles to them and I continue to try to update my old posts on the subject, while also writing new ones to share fresh addresses for you to discover.
This is an opportunity to dive into insider haunts where high-level mixology is unveiled through bartenders who craft cocktails that are as tasty as they are aesthetic. Let’s not hide it, making a good cocktail is an art, and to do this, it is important to know how to find bartenders who are capable of precise measurements and who master the marriage of aromas. Here is a new selection of hotel bars in Paris that fall into this category.
Please note: excessive drinking is dangerous for your health. Consume with moderation.
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Hotel cocktail bar in the 4th arr. of Paris
Hôtel Le Grand Mazarin: the Boubalé bar
This 5-star hotel, located in the heart of the Marais and just a stone’s throw from the Hôtel de Ville, houses a restaurant, Boubalé, which hides a refined and unconventional cocktail bar at the back of the room. You will find original, quality cocktails there, and the bar favors zero-waste mixology.
Tested in 2024
Boubalé Bar / Hôtel Le Grand Mazarin
6 rue des Archives 75004 Paris
Hotel cocktail bar in the 7th arr. of Paris
Hôtel La Bourdonnais: the Gloster Bar
This cocktail bar with very exotic decor is located on the ground floor of the Hôtel La Bourdonnais in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Since the bar has a separate entrance from the hotel, you barely notice that you are in a hotel bar, which has the result that many of the bar’s customers are people from outside the hotel. The cocktails are original and well-crafted, and all at really moderate prices for this quality of cocktail!
To test: the bar’s signature cocktail creations like the “Day-O” with cachaça, banana purée, and cinnamon-infused absinthe, or even the “Let’s Run Away” with rum and pistachio orgeat syrup.
The little extra: to accompany your cocktails, the bar offers small jars from Super Producteurs (€9) to nibble on alone or with others!
Tested in 2020
Gloster Bar
113 Avenue de la Bourdonnais, 75007 ParisBar open from 4:00 PM to 11:00 PM on Tuesday and Wednesday, from 4:00 PM to midnight on Thursday and from 4:00 PM
to 1:00 AM on Friday and SaturdayCocktail prices: between €11 and €12
The good deal: happy hours from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM from Tuesday to Saturday with cocktails for €9
Hotel cocktail bar in the 8th arr. of Paris
Hilton Paris Opera: Le Petit Bar
The Hilton Paris Opera hotel is a historic hotel located in the heart of Paris, near major department stores and cultural sites. Inside the establishment, Le Petit Bar offers a cozy and more intimate atmosphere and provides a beautiful selection of cocktails and a few tapas to snack on.
The bar’s summer cocktails are actually based this year on beer from the Belgian brewery Liefmans:
- The red glowing ship
- Piraat Descaraibes
Tested in 2017
Hilton Paris Opera
108 Rue Saint-Lazare, 75008 Paris
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Hilton Paris Opera: ephemeral LPB speakeasy
For the end-of-year holidays, the cozy Hilton Paris Opera bar, Le Petit Bar, becomes a hidden bar with an atmosphere of the 20s and Prohibition, where it is possible to taste cocktails from that era. As for the menu, the head bartender, Pierre Galéa, has revisited, among other things, two cocktails based on premium alcohol for the occasion: the Wonderland and the Julep Normandy, both steeped in history.
On the program: period furniture, dim lighting, hushed atmosphere, playlist, not to mention the bartenders’ costumes inspired by the era and some entertainment such as a Jazz concert, a Charleston lesson, or even casino games.
To taste:- The Wonderland (€19), tea-infused gin with added red Dolin liqueur, lemon juice, and agave syrup, gets its name from the “so British” tea cups in which it is served, as during the Prohibition era.
- The Julep Normandy, a Calvados variation of the Mint Julep, a cocktail associated with the culture of the southern United States that inspired the Mojito.
- Lovers of great classics will also be able to enjoy a Zombie (€19), a Moonshiner, or even French cocktails from the Roaring Twenties based on Suze and Absinthe.
Tested in 2016
Hilton Paris Opera
108 rue Saint-Lazare, 75008 ParisEphemeral bar starting December 8, 2016
from Thursday to Saturday from 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM for the general public
Hotel cocktail bar in the 9th arr. of Paris
Hôtel Banke: the Bar
I have already told you several times about the Hôtel Banke, because it is a Parisian establishment that I like very much. This magnificent 5-star boutique hotel installed in a historic 19th-century building (a former bank) is located in the Opéra district. The hotel bar, the Bar (formerly the Lolabar), offers a very beautiful range of cocktails based on Gin & Tonic, served in the purest tradition of the Spanish copa. As a quick historical reminder, the Gin & Tonic is the emblematic drink of the British Empire in the 18th century, and it is offered here by a team of experts who have a wide selection of nearly 150 gins discovered from all four corners of the world.
The little extra: the bar offers numerous events, including musical afterworks, for example.
Cocktail prices: between €15 and €22
Tested in 2019
Lolabar of the Hôtel Banke
20, rue La Fayette 75009 Paris
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Hôtel Parister: Bar Les Passerelles
The new autumn/winter cocktail menu at the Bar Les Passerelles since October 2019 has been imagined by the head barmaid around the theme of spices. This bar is installed in the very beautiful 5-star Hôtel Parister in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris. The Bar Les Passerelles is also specialized in French whisky, of which it has a very interesting selection of bottles. In addition, to accompany your cocktails, the establishment offers a selection of quite tasty small dishes.
My selection:
- The non-alcoholic cocktail Mademoiselle (in homage to Park Chan-wook’s film) with Hojicha tea, buckwheat syrup, curry, and persimmon vinegar (€8).
- The Clara Vallis which is very fresh with myrtle eau-de-vie, lemon, thyme, Hystérie, and Absinthe liqueur (€14).
- The Tajine des fins bois, much fuller-bodied with Cognac, port, quince liqueur infused with olive oil, ginger, and ras el hanout (€14).
The little extra: the charming inner patio to enjoy sunny days on the terrace and out of sight from prying eyes.
Tested in 2020
Hôtel Parister / Bar Les Passerelles
19 rue Saulnier 75009 Paris
Cocktail and tapas bar from Tuesday to Thursday from 6:00 PM to midnight, Friday and Saturday until 1:00 AM
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Paris Marriott Opera Ambassador: the Bar Lindbergh
I have already told you about this hotel, of which I am one of the ambassadors, in a previous article. The establishment opened its doors in 1927 and it was the most modern hotel in the city at the time. It is, moreover, in this establishment, now a 4-star Marriott range hotel, that Charles Lindbergh celebrated his first crossing of the Atlantic and gave, at the same time, his name to the hotel bar (yes, I like small historical details and this also explains the origin of the bar’s name). As for the menu, the establishment’s barmaid is very talented and offers very original cocktails and very beautiful non-alcoholic creations (which I find is always important to specify)!
Tested in 2020
Bar Lindbergh
Paris Marriott Opera Ambassador16, boulevard Haussmann, 75009 Paris
Cocktail prices: approximately €15
Hotel cocktail bar in the 10th arr. of Paris
Hôtel l’Echiquier: the 38 Bar
This address is an absolutely sublime place to drink a cocktail for a more than reasonable price, what’s more… Certainly my new cocktail spot in the capital. This hotel, which opened 70 years ago, offers, through its bar, a dive back into the Parisian Roaring Twenties, notably by bringing back the cocktails of that era. On the cocktail menu, there are classics, but also Belle Epoque cocktails and house creations. An address that therefore remains great value for money, with quality cocktails in a sublime place and for a price that beats all competition (what more could you ask for?).
To taste:
- The Pink Lady (Gin, Angostura Bitter, lemon juice, grenadine syrup, egg white foam), a Belle Epoque cocktail (€14).
- The Godfather Sour (whiskey, Amaretto, lemon juice, cane sugar syrup, egg white foam), one of the house’s creations (€14).
- The Mojito (€12), a classic extremely well done, as it is finally very rare to succeed in drinking a mojito worthy of the name!
Tested in 2016
38 Bar Lounge / Hôtel l’Echiquier
38 Rue De L’Echiquier, 75010 ParisCocktail prices: between €12 and €14
Hotel cocktail bar in the 16th arr. of Paris
Shangri-La: the Bar Botaniste
The bar of the palace hotel Shangri-La (which I have already told you about here on the blog) is treating itself to a new identity with the atmosphere of a cabinet of curiosities, centered around the world of apothecaries with plants under glass bells, a plant wall, and an absinthe fountain. On the bar side, the head bartender Arnaud Thirel wanted to pay tribute to Prince Roland Bonaparte, a fine collector, creator of the largest private herbarium in the world at the time, and the first owner of the premises in the 19th century. On the program: about fifteen daring cocktails with a focus on slightly forgotten alcohols like génépi or chartreuse and extremely advanced visual research.
To taste:
- The Zacao, a cocktail based on rum, vermouth, cocoa nib syrup, and Sichuan pepper, the best cocktail with chocolate that I have had the opportunity to taste, because it is perfectly balanced.
- The Bumblebee, a honeyed cocktail with cognac, lavender honey, yellow lemon, and tonka bean.
- The Cyrus, with vodka, Lillet, and black lemon from Iran (an incredible ingredient with a quite unique taste!).
- The Genesis, with génépi, lime, ginger beer, barley sugar, and pine buds. A real fragrance of freshness and plants.
Le Bar Botaniste / Hotel Shangri-La
10, avenue d’Iéna 75016 ParisCocktail prices: approximately €27
Find below all my bar tests in Paris:
⇒ My bar tests in Paris
⇒ My good cocktail addresses in Paris
⇒ My hotel bars in Paris
MY GOOD COCKTAIL BAR ADDRESSES IN PARIS
⇒ Le Jefrey’s (75002)
⇒ Le Shake N’Smash (75003)
⇒ La Mezcaleria (75003)
⇒ L’Arbane (75006)
⇒ Secret 8, the secret bar of the Buddha-Bar Paris (75008)
⇒ The gin bar at Hôtel Banke (75009)
⇒ Le 38 Bar Lounge at Hôtel l’Échiquier (75010)
⇒ Le Bar Botaniste at the Shangri-La (75016)
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