Top 20: The best bar in each Paris arrondissement
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
To celebrate our 21st episode, we're treating it like a 21st birthday and we're having a drink. Or 20.
We're joined in the studio by Forest Collins, the absolute expert when it comes to Paris bars (and the woman behind 52 Martinis), who presents the top watering hole in every arrondissement of the French capital.
Below is the full list of bars with addresses.
And watch this space… we can feel a pub crawl coming along.
Hemingway at the Ritz Hotel, 15 Place Vendôme
Mabel, 58 Rue d'Aboukir
Les Bains, 7 Rue du Bourg l'Abbé
Maria Loca, 31 Boulevard Henri IV
Lucha Libre, 10 Rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève
La Robe & La Mousse, 3 Rue Monsieur le Prince
Fitzgerald, 54 Boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg
Minipalais, 3 Avenue Winston Churchill,
Lulu White, 12 Rue Frochot
Copperbay, 5 Rue Bouchardon
Le Red House, bis, 1 Rue de la Forge Royale
Le Calbar, 82 Rue de Charenton
Bateau El Alamein, Quai François Mauriac
Rosebud, 11 Rue Delambre
Novotel Lounge Bar, 257 Rue de Vaugirard
Hotel Saint James, 43 Avenue Bugeaud
Lush Bar, 16 Rue des Dames
Le Kremlin, 6 Rue André Antoine
Pavillon des Canaux, 39 Quai de la Loire
La Commune, 80 boulevard de Belleville
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Earful Tower listeners, this is a special episode. It is our 21st birthday. |
| 0:06.0 | We're so excited that we can't even get the words out. 21 episodes. This is the year that, well, the year, the week that we can start drinking legally. And guess what? |
| 0:17.0 | We're doing it. We're here doing an episode about drinking. We're talking the 20 best bars in Paris with a bit of a twist and we've got a special guest. But let's just play the jingle and get the episode started. |
| 0:31.6 | And this week we're here with Forrest Collins. How are you, Forrest? |
| 0:36.0 | I'm good. How are you? |
| 0:36.9 | I love your name. Thank you. |
| 0:38.3 | It sounds like, it sounds to me like an actor. Yes, sounds very strong. |
| 0:42.9 | Or an actress, of course. You said it sounds more like a cocktail. It does. Yeah, Collins. That's a common cocktail. So the reason we've got you in today, for anyone who doesn't know you, in fact, I'll have a go in introducing you and you tell me if I get it wrong. |
| 0:56.1 | You've got a blog, you've got a podcast yourself, you've got a site, and it's called 52 martinis. |
| 1:02.7 | You're Paris-based, you know everything there is to know about bars, beer, drinks. |
| 1:07.1 | Am I right so far? |
| 1:08.0 | You're right. |
| 1:09.1 | Cocktails is more my wheelhouse. I'm a little less on the beer wine side, but as I was saying earlier, equal opportunity |
| 1:14.9 | drinkers, so I know a bit about everything. |
| 1:17.2 | And tell me honest opinion about the fact that we gave you a Hineken today in a plastic |
| 1:20.6 | glass. |
| 1:21.0 | I respect that. |
| 1:21.9 | I respect you weren't trying to, like, you know, impress me with something over. |
| 1:25.1 | It's a 21st birthday we're not going to be too we're not |
| 1:27.9 | too wild |
| 1:28.8 | here for that |
| 1:29.4 | well |
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