Zoé Bouillon is a small, simple yet fun bar to be found in the area between the Buttes Chaumont park and Belleville. It’s a good place to stop for an early drink, but they also serve an original selection of home-made soups that you can take out if you don’t feel like doing any cooking. This bar may be very small but their hearts are big and definitely in the right place. Read more

Les Copians is a small and very friendly bar found in the culturally diverse 20th area of Paris. People come here to have a low-key drink with down to earth people who just want to hang out without having to fork out a fortune for a fancy cocktail and strike a pose. The drinks are quite cheap, the décor is as warm as the bar staff, and you quickly feel very at home. Debates at the bar are often heated and anyone within hearing distance is soon drawn in as more beers are consumed the more... Read more

The black façade isn’t very inviting but once you go through the door you will discover a bar entirely decorated with wood, large beams on the ceiling, pine kernels. It’s a live music bar regularly frequented by locals and students. They specialise in exotic rums, such as a ginger rum, but you can also find good cheap red wine. On concert nights (Friday and Saturday) it is wise to reserve a table. Read more