Wondering where to drink wine in Paris with a cheese plate or a charcuterie board ? As a couple, with friends or wine lovers, here are my favorite addresses.
Of course you will find wine at all the restaurants in France. But you can also go to a wine bar. These places are usually very casual where the French meet with friends and colleagues.
At some places you can stand up next to a barrel, end up talking to new friends on the sidewalk with your glass of wine or sit down in a cosy atmosphere with a few things to eat.
Be warned that when going to a wine bar you can stop by for a quick drink or stay for five hours.
French vocabulary at the wine bar
Cave : literally means cellar.
Vin au verre : wine by the glass. You can order a bottle but you can try wines from different regions by ordering by the glass.
Bouteille : bottle.
Planche : It’s the wooden board on which charcuterie or cheese is served. There is also planche mixte for charcuterie and cheese.
Assiettes : Some wine bars serve small plates, usually simple types of food but tasty. Other ones have more elaborate dishes.
Vin nature : natural wines without sulfites.
Droit de bouchon : corkage fee. Some places have a wine shop and ask you to pay a fee if you’d like to drink on the spot. There can be two different prices on the bottle (to take away or drink on the spot).
Here’s a map of several wine bars in Paris including :
The classics : Le Barav and Le Baron Rouge
Both of them are famous casual parisian wine bars that can be very busy and people often end up standing on the side walk. If you go on your own, you can easily chat with people.
- Located in the Marais, le Barav has a wide selection of wine (6 rue Charles-François Dupuis, 75003).
- Le Baron Rouge is more of the typical old style wine bar. Located just aroud the corner from Aligre market, you can get a wine glass in the morning after doing your grocery shopping or several glasses in the evening. In the season they can also serve some oysters. one of the few wine bars in Paris opened during the day (1 rue Théophile Roussel, 75012).
Chefs’s wine bars
- Frenchie Bar à Vins : a great way to enjoy Chef Greg Marchand’s cuisine if you can’t get a reservation at his restaurant (6 rue du Nil, 75002)
- Septime La Cave : Bertrand Grébaut chef of Septime’s wine bar (3 rue Basfroi, 75011).
- L’Avant Comptoir de la Mer : is chef Yves Camdeborde’s seafood tapas place in Odeon area in Saint Germain (3 Carrefour de l’Odéon, 75006). Next door is L’Avant Comptoir de la Terre that serves meat. Nearby L’Avant Comptoir du Marché also serves meat main dishes (14 rue Lobineau, 75006).
- Billili : this cave à manger belongs to the bistro Les Arlots nextdoor (136 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75010).
- La Cave des Climats : It’s the wine bar of the Michelin stared Les Climats restaurant (35 Rue de Verneuil, 75007 Paris)
- La belle Hortense : a wine bar located in a book shop (31 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003)
- La Cave du Paul Bert (16 rue Paul Bert, 75011)
Wine bars that serve natural wines
Small production types of wines with natural fermentation and no sulfites.
- La Prohibition : 12 rue du Bourg l’Abbé, 75003
- Magnum la cave : 26 rue Beautreillis, 75004
- Deviant : 39 rue des Petites Écuries, 75010
- La Compagnie des vins surnaturels : 7 rue Lobineau, 75006
- La Cave Pigalle : 3 rue Victor Massé, 75009
- Bons Vivants : 7 rue des Écoles, 75005
Wine bars close to the Louvre – 75001
- Willi’s Wine Bar : 13 Rue des Petits Champs, 75001
- Le Garde robe : 41 Rue de l’Arbre Sec, 75001 Paris
- Caves Legrand : 1 Rue de la Banque, 75002 Paris
Wine bars in Saint Germain – 75006
- Ambassade de Bourgogne : 6 Rue de l’Odéon, 75006 Paris
- Etna : 33 Rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris
- L’Avant Comptoir de la Terre : 3 Carrefour de l’Odéon, 75006 Paris
- Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels : 7 Rue Lobineau, 75006 Paris
Wine bar in the Latin Quarter – 75005
- Babil : 24 Rue de la Huchette, 75005 Paris
- Bon Vivant : 7 Rue des Écoles, 75005 Paris
Wine bar in Montmartre – 75018
- From Jura with love :great place to discover wines from Jura and their cheeses, 5 Rue Eugène Sue, 75018 Paris
- Euphorie : 61 Rue Ramey, 75018 Paris
- Poney Club : 3 Rue Eugène Carrière, 75018 Paris
- La Cave des Abbesses : 43 Rue des Abbesses, 75018 Paris
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