BARS AND MUSIC

THE WEB GIVES MANY SUGGESTIONS: HERE ARE MINE

A café where the patron converses with clients and trusts them to pay when they can:

La Liberté 

196 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine 

(M° Faidherbe-Chaligny, 12th)

At the end of an obscure street, a bar with excellent Portuguese cuisine and music on Friday nights:

Passarito mon amour 

10 rue Goncourt, 11th

(M° Goncourt)

In Ménilmontant, a hangout with nighttime music:

On the door, badges of approval. Behind the stool, names of suppliers.

A pause between sets

Quartier Rouge

 52 rue Bagnolet, Ménilmontant
(M° Alexandre Dumas)

Moms with babies, couples with children, grandparents with their families, young people meeting, couples glad to be together, a handicapped man who gives a pianist five euros saying he has few resources but appreciates the music. 

Wine and oysters next to the city's cheapest market,* where musicians play.

*Marché Aligre, 10 minutes from Bastille

Le Baron Rouge, 

1 rue Théophile Roussel, 12th

(M° Faidherbe-Chaligny) 

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For joie de vivre and first-rate music,
discover the eastern neighborhood dives:

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