But what might surprise the eager novice eater in Paris is the richness of the city’s cocktail culture, disengaged as it seems from a tradition of haute cuisine and vin de pays. One needn’t lurk exclusively in brasseries to enjoy the best in drink that Paris has to offer. The cocktail bars, astonishingly, are some of the greatest anywhere. It’s through the back of a grimy Mexican restaurant whose only customers double as inhospitable doormen — but survive this audition and one enters an authentic old-fashioned cocktail bar whose prohibition-era drinks prove among the city’s best. A few minutes’ walk from the Hoxton is Copper Bay, the most stylish, modern and decidedly French of the cocktail bars in Paris — also, I suppose not coincidentally, my favourite.

Source: National Post March 02, 2018 18:36 UTC