Small Batch Cocktail & Spirits News from France
Quick Take: Following the completion of its revamp in 2018, the Hotel Lutetia’s Bar Josephine serves luxury cocktails plus a small martini and negroni menu. James Joyce, Picasso, Josephine Baker and a whole host of other historical figures have made the Hotel Lutetia their Parisian HQ over the decades. Since its opening by Le Bon […]
Quick Take: Tayēr + Elementary and Kwãnt are the buzziest and biggest new openings but Homeboy, FAM, Vermuteria, and Artesian are also worth a stop. London has its cocktail scene locked down with lots of lovely bars from classic to creative and laidback to lux. But, the cool thing about being an energetic capital city […]
Quick Take: 1802 is a chic hotel bar that serves only rum and rum cocktails (plus one cachaca option) As rum continues to figure as an increasingly important player in the spirits world, we’re seeing more focus on it in menus, bars and shops. Mabel is Paris’ best known rum bar and has an impressive […]
To much fanfare earlier this year, the Crillon Hotel reopened after a four-year remodel. This once private residence, commissioned in 1758 by Louis XV, now flaunts a luxuriously updated attitude and a bar that stands by the “The 3 C’s” That’s cocktails, champagne and caviar, daaahling. And their bar, Les Ambassadeurs, is not only gobsmackingly […]
Le Lucien Bar, Fouquet Hotel 46 avenue George V 75008 Paris 01 40 69 60 00 The Bedazzler is a “cheap-ass rhinestone-studding tool favored by art teachers and over-excitable soccer moms everywhere, the biggest piece of crap sold on late-night TV since the Thighmaster, the reason women own shirts with glittery kitty-cats on them.” Oh […]
E7 Hotel Edouard 39, av de l’Opéra 75002 PARIS Tél: +33 (0)1 42 61 56 90 I’m behind in my blogging. And, I didn’t even know where to begin again until someone asked me for bandaid. Looking through my handbag in search of one, I noticed what a mess it was & decided to […]
Park Hyatt Vendome 5 Rue de la Paix 75002 Paris 01 58 71 12 34 This will be a quickie! A few weeks back, Kate came up from Geneva and we treated ourselves to a fancy, spendy afternoon drink (well, two) at the ParkHyattVendome. Several people have recommended that I visit this ParkHyattand I can […]
Hotel de Crillon Vogue Fashion Bar 10 Place de la Concorde 75008 Paris Tel: +33 (0)1 44 71 15 39 I first got word of the temporary Vogue/Crillon bar collaboration via tweet from I heart Paris who always has good info on fun fashion and other cool stuff in Paris. During fashion week one of […]
Novotel Bercy 85, de Bercy 75012 Paris Tel: 01 43 42 30 00 Forest fact: I have a soft spot for average, bog standard, budget chain hotels you find scattered along the freeways of middle America. You know the ones I mean: they always have sufficient strip mall & General Dollar Store action close by, […]
Le Tres Particulier at Hôtel Particulier Montmartre 23, avenue Junot 75018 Paris Tel. : 00 33 1 53 41 81 40 Round Two…onto more upbeat feedback. Go Team! Stay Positive! On our second night in a row at le Tres Particulier, Laure cordially re-welcomed us and personally introduced us to David, the resident cocktail artist. […]
