CopperBay
CopperBay works a nautical room at 5 rue Bouchardon in the 10th, ten years into a tightly written cocktail list. The World’s 50 Best Discovery guide keeps it on the Paris map.
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The 10 best cocktail bars in Paris for 2026: Little Red Door, Candelaria, Experimental Cocktail Club and seven more. The technical reference list.
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2 ranked rooms follow. How we picked is at the end of this guide.
Paris's cocktail scene caught up with London's in the 2010s and now competes seriously. Little Red Door has been a top-five global fixture; Candelaria pioneered the modern Paris speakeasy. The 10 below are the rooms where serious cocktail technique lives, concentrated in the Marais and around the 9th and 10th. Most reward reservation.
CopperBay works a nautical room at 5 rue Bouchardon in the 10th, ten years into a tightly written cocktail list. The World’s 50 Best Discovery guide keeps it on the Paris map.
Full listing & hours →Le Rosebud has worked the Montparnasse night since 1962, a jazz-lit room on rue Delambre. A collective of seven film and music names took it over in 2025 to keep it open.
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