Paris, noted for its numerous speakeasies based on blog recommendations and Google reviews according to Radical Storage research, inspired the creation of this ultimate list of hidden bars in the city. Let’s explore the hidden bars and speakeasies in Paris together!
1.📍Moonshiner
This speakeasy is hidden behind the Pizzeria Da Vito and if you want to enter you should walk through the meat freezer or metal door.
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2.📍Little Red Door
How do you get into the Little Red door in Paris?
They embrace a “farm-to-glass concept,” collaborating directly with French producers for their cocktail ingredients. By the way, the little red door isn’t an entrance; observe closely, and you’ll discover it. 🙂
3.📍Gentlemen 1919
You enter this speakeasy through a barbershop, and at the real barbershop, you can find a barber and even clean or repair your shoes!
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4.📍Mobster Bar
How do you get into the mobster bar in Paris?
To enter the Mobster Bar, locate a vintage telephone booth on Rue de Crussol in the 11th arrondissement. Enter the secret code revealed upon answering the phone and listening to the message in the booth to gain access to the bar.
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5.📍L’Epicier
What bar is hidden in a shop in Paris?
One of the best speakeasies in Paris looks like a convenience store and one of the shelves leads you to the bar.
This Moroccan-themed speakeasy bar opens when you grab a couscous from the shelves and cocktails range from 10 to 15 euros, creating an affordable and exotic escape.
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6.📍Lavomatic
This bar is hidden behind washing machines, accessed through a disguised door. You can see washing machines and tumble dryers. You can actually wash your clothes here by inserting coins in the coin-operated laundromats.
7.📍Rehab
Nestled in Hotel Normandy, between the Eiffel Tower and Rue Saint Honoré, Rehab is a discreet speakeasy accessible through a mirrored door in Le Comptoir du Chantier. Specializing in spirit-free cocktails-*mocktail, is a non-alcoholic beverage, Rehab is renowned for its innovative CBD-infused cocktails- *CBD (cannabidiol), which is a non-psychoactive compound derived from the cannabis plant), offering healthy alternatives with unique flavor combinations.
8.📍Candelaria
Candelaria is a Mexican restaurant with traditional food like tacos, tortillas, and guacamoles. You can find a speakeasy bar behind the service door. Candelaria has consistently secured its place on various “Best” lists, enjoying a remarkable five-year presence on the prestigious World’s 50 Best Bars list.
9.📍Prescription Cocktail Club
Located at 23 rue Mazarine, the entrance welcomes patrons into a mesmerizing space adorned with draped fabric, delicate trimmings, and upholstered walls. The enchanting atmosphere is curated by Dorothée Meilichzon, featuring beguiling spaces and hidden scenes set across small sofas in every corner. According to them, ”The Prescription Cocktail Club is the scene of many surprises: Yiking initiations, tarot & tequila workshops, games of chance, croupier energies, astro encounters, tastings, Ayurvedic chocolate & cocktails with “Cosmic dealer.”
10.📍 Fitzgerald
Named by the American writer Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, this speakeasy can be accessed through the restaurant by gently pushing open the discreet padded door. According to the restaurant, patrons can “rediscover the desire to dance freely like Scott and Zelda in the roaring ’20s,”.
11.📍La Petit Club
Inside La Favela restaurant, which is a French/Brazilian restaurant, you can find this hidden speakeasy. You can find it by noticing a black velvet curtain that separates it from the restaurant, and it’s a place for up to 45 people.
12.📍La Mezclaleria
You can find this speakeasy at the Hôtel 1K, behind the INKA kitchen. They offer a mix of Japanese-Mexican-inspired cocktails, and their highlight is mezcal, or ”God’s drink”. According to Paris je t’aime, ”La Mezclaleria is the only hidden bar in Paris that transforms into an open-air venue in summer”.
13.📍Secret 8
This speakeasy is located in the Buddha Bar behind the hidden wall. So, bar in another bar! Up to 25 people max can sit in here. What’s interesting is that they have month’s riddles on their social media.
14.📍Le Syndicat
The Syndicat, a renowned cocktail bar, has earned accolades and a spot in the World’s 50 Best Bars. Tucked discreetly behind a façade covered in posters, it has become a premier Parisian temple of mixology. According to Urbansider, ”Le Syndicat (the Union) was created as an ‘organization in defense of French spirits.’ The founders, Romain Le Mouellic and Sullivan Doh aim to revive and glorify traditional French spirits—Armagnac, Cognac, Calvados, Chartreuse, and more—concocting beautiful, elegant, and unique cocktails for newbies and experts alike.”
15.📍YAGŌ
This bar is not officially a speakeasy, but its entrance is discrete because of its small neon sign. This hidden bar has a sensual atmosphere with a pole dance, and it’s located in the Pigalle district. According to the SpiritHunters ”The bar offers an intimate atmosphere with a decor that pays homage to the Hostess Club type night bars, where in fact Yago has been built, in a former bar of this type.”
16.📍Castor Club
Called lodge in Iceland, a Norwegian village tavern, something from Twin Peaks, and a Siberian chalet (Forest Collins), this speakeasy in Paris is situated in a quiet side street near Boulevard Saint Germain, as it’s among the top speakeasies on the Left Bank in Paris.
17.📍Le 1905
According to the 52 Martinis:
Rue Beautreillis is a street with some interesting history. Not only will you find Baudelaire’s old living quarters but also the apartment where Jim Morrison lived and died. And at number 25 is Aux Vins des Pyrenees, a restaurant that’s been on that site under the same name – though different owners – for over a century. Back in the day, Morrison was a regular customer and would stop in to buy a bottle or two. While this main floor bistro is busy and buzzy, in-the-know patrons can bypass the downstairs and head into the discreet door to the right of the restaurant, taking the stairs up to a hidden bar, the 1905.
18.📍Danico
Danico is tucked away behind Daroco Bourse, an Italian trattoria situated in Jean Paul Gaultier’s former flagship store within the renowned Galerie Vivienne. It’s listed among the 100 best cocktail bars in the world, according to the 50 Best guide.
19.📍UC-61
This speakeasy looks like a UC-61 submarine. It seems that the parts of the submarine were used in the creation of the bar. The entrance is hidden, meaning there are rusty closed doors and a ring bell, which you use to enter this speakeasy in Paris.
20.📍 La Malicia
This speakeasy is also located at 1K Paris Hotel inside La Mezcaleria speakeasy. The menu is inspired by goétie, a black magic of the 16th and 17th centuries and each cocktail is associated with a mysterious ritual to access the desired power, according to the bartender, William Deschamps and the 1k Paris Hotel.
21.📍Hammam Bar by OUR
Beneath the kebab shop in Paris, you will find a Turkish-inspired speakeasy.
22.📍Baranaan
According to Barannan: ”at 7 rue Faubourg Saint Martin in the 10th arrondissement, located behind a hidden door at the back of an Indian street food shop, a passage with the smell of patchouli will take you to Baranaan. Embark on a lovely journey aboard the Indian Prohibition Train. With Bollywood music in the background, let yourself be carried away by the spectacle of the bartenders mixing cocktails creatively combining Indian liqueurs and exotic/original flavors.”
23.📍No Entry
How do you get into a No Entry speakeasy in Paris?
This speakeasy in Paris is located in the basement of the restaurant called Pink Mamma in Pigalle. You have to go down the stairs and you should be able to see the freeze doors or meet fridge with a sign ‘No Entry’.
24.📍Le Spootnik
Nestled beneath the Datscha Underground restaurant at the outskirts of Le Marais, Le Spootnik is a hidden Soviet space-themed speakeasy bar. ”A dacha (in Russian: дача) designates, in Russia, a second home in the countryside. Life at the dacha is characterized by its intimacy and a relaxed lifestyle where you can do things that you would never dare “in real life”. Le Spootnik
Futuristic audiophile bar, run by mixologists and inhabited by artists
Le Spootnik
25.📍The Underpool
This speakeasy in Paris is hidden in the basement of the Bao Express restaurant.They offer Chinese-inspired cocktails, and the ceiling is made of mirrors and looks like a pool. Find a red vintage telephone and you’re there.
26.📍Golden Promise Whiskey Bar
Even though the address is the right, there is no sign that behind the walls is the whiskey bar with around 800 different whiskeys to taste and 200 types of whisky from a back-lit bar. Enter where it says Maison du Sake and then follow the stairs down. This is also first whiskey taste bar in Paris.
27.📍Experimental Cocktail Club
This tiny speakeasy in Paris is not hidden behind metal doors or in the basement of a restaurant, but the only way you can find it is by searching for the tiny metal plaque on the wall. Do you think this bar can be considered a speakeasy? 🙂
28.📍Neuvième Sauvage
You can find this speakeasy in the basment of the Mediterranean restaurant in Montmartre. Down the basement search for the doors like in the post below!
29.📍Chéri Chéri
Do you need a password for a speakeasy?
This is one of the most secret speakeasies as there’s not too much information about it. It’s located in the basement of Maison Lautrec restaurant in Pigalle. Chéri Chéri only opens its doors to those who know the password or have a membership card.
30.📍 Le Bistrot Des Cinéastes
According to the eureporter , this speakeasy is the most secretive since they have less than 600 followers (at the moment). Te report was conducted by Radical Sotrage. You can find it in the first floor of the Cinéma des Cinéastes.
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