| If you’re aiming for upscale, Paris won’t let you down. Try the Buddha Bar or De la Ville Café.
For trendy and buzzing but not so painfully chic nightlife, try the area near rue Oberkampf; it used to be a bit grungier, and now though still at times eclectic and haphazard, you’re likely to find something unique here. Café Charbon is a good place to start.
The Bastille is also full of bar-hoppers and pub-crawlers. If you park yourself here, you won’t have far to go. Checl out the Café de L’industrie for a beer or a beouf bourgignon, or smokey wine bar Jacques Mélac.
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| De la Ville Café has a sleek lounge and large heated sidewalk terrace, a cool, industrial swank, and gets impressively crowded on Friday and Saturday nights. |
| Near the Champs-Elysées this place is dim, glowing, and swanky, presided over by an enormous golden Buddha statue and the coveted DJ Claude Challe. Drinks are incredibly expensive, if delicious, and the clientele are dressed to the nines. |
| Café Charbon is a good place to get a drink near rue Oberkampf. Both a brasserie (beer hall) that serves excellent, if noisy, brunch, and an early twentieth century dance hall; in the evenings there is soft jazz until the DJ shows up. |
| Jacques Mélac, 42 rue Léon-Frot, is one of Paris’ many cozy and smoky wine bars where you can drink the fermented fruits of the vines outdoors and sneak through the kitchen for a hunk of country cheese. |
| Le Triptyque is a great place for electronic music, with always a good DJ line-up, and calls itself the alternative space (la salle alternative) of Paris. |
| Le Batofar is a huge crimson boat floating on the Seine that is also a well known and relatively casual club; rock, t-shirts, and beer. |
| La Casbah is Morocco in France – a restaurant, club, and cabaret (with snake charmers, magicians, jugglers, and the like), and is always featuring hot DJs from Paris and London. |
| The classic, no-nonsense club for young people, located in Paris’ seedy red-light district, Pigalle, is La Locomotive. It has three floors and switches the music between house, rock, and RB, and ladies get in free on Fridays. |
| Le Caveau des Oubliettes is a cool underground jazz hotspot for students. |
| Le Sunset is the oldest and most well known jazz club around – all the big time musicians have been here, so the shows are a bit pricier; more like 20 euros. |
| 7 Lézards is a nice little jazz club with sofas and a casual flair. |
| L’Entrepôt is a jazz bar. It has expos, jam sessions, films, and live jazz every Thursday. Super quality and super cheap – only 7 euros per show. |
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