The best hostess cocktail bars in Paris?!
The best hostess cocktail bars in Paris?
Bars or Cocktail Bars should be in central Paris. Should have good ambience and for a mature person!
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The best bar is Paris (in my humble opinion) is Harry's New York Bar. Despite the name it manages to be both American and distinctly parisian. It has the ambience of a 20-30's bar (walking down to the Piano bar I half expected to see Bogart in a white tux and Sam playing the piano) and upstairs it has the feel of an old college alumni club.
The original Harry's New York Bar is located at 5 rue Daunou between the Avenue de l'Opéra and the Rue de la Paix in Paris, France. In 1911, it was acquired by former American star jockey Tod Sloan who converted it from a bistro and renamed it the "New York Bar." [1] At the time, American tourists and members of the artistic and literary communities were beginning to show up in Paris in ever-increasing numbers and Sloan hoped to capitalize on his fame and make the place a spot where expatriates would feel at home. His bar did become a popular spot for members of the American Field Service Ambulance Corps during World War I. However, financial problems from Sloan's overspending on a lavish personal lifestyle forced him to sell the bar and in 1923 it would be acquired by Harry McElhone who would be responsible for making it into a legendary Parisian landmark and one of the most famous bars in the world.
Over the years, Harry's New York Bar was frequented by a number of famous American expatriates and international celebrities such as Knute Rockne, Sinclair Lewis. Ernest Hemingway, Bill Tilden, Coco Chanel, Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Ramon Novarro, Aly Khan, Rita Hayworth, Humphrey Bogart, and even the Duke of Windsor occasionally showed up.
It is also (as you will see from the massive mirror behind the bar) the home of the International Barfly Association (of which Hemingway was a member).
The "Ivories" Piano Bar at Harry's is where George Gershwin composed An American in Paris.
Harry's New York Bar is reportedly the birthplace of the Bloody Mary.
If you haven't been then I would go at once.
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1.^ Sturges, Preston. - p. 195, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words. (1990). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0671679295.
thanks to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/main_page... for some of the info above.
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