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ling Dom Pérignon, nibbling at tapas-style platters (mains €20 to €40) and shaking their
designer-clad booty on the tables.
If you can, try to snag a table à l'étage (upstairs) in the part-glass-roofed terrace-gallery,
where light floods across the giant geisha swooning horizontal across the ceiling, and stun-
ning river views (particularly at sunset) make your head swim.
WINE BAR
Ô CHATEAU
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.o-chateau.com ; 68 rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1er;
4pm-midnight
Mon-Sat; ; Les Halles or Étienne Marcel)
Wine aficionados can thank this young, fun, cosmopolitan bar à vins for bringing affordable
tasting to Paris. Sit at the long, trendy bar and savour your pick of 40-odd grands vins
served by the glass (500-odd by the bottle!). Or sign up in advance for an intro to French
wine (€30) or a guided cellar tasting in English over lunch (€75) or dinner (€100).
COCKTAIL BAR
LE FUMOIR
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.lefumoir.com ; 6 rue de l'Amiral de Coligny, 1er;
11-2am;
Louvre
Rivoli)
This colonial-style bar-restaurant is a fine spot to sip top-notch gin from quality glassware
while nibbling olives from the vintage mahogany bar, or discover new cocktails with friends
during happy hour (6pm to 8pm). A buoyant, corporate crowd packs out the place weekday
evenings after work, while the restaurant revs into gear at mealtimes.
The best seats in the house are in the 'library' and on the summer pavement terrace.
PARIS' FILM ARCHIVE
Cinemas showing films set in Paris are the centrepiece of the city's film archive, the
Forum des Images ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; www.forumdesimages.fr ; 1 Grande Galerie, Porte St-Eus-
tache, Forum des Halles, 1er; 1-10pm Tue-Fri, from 2pm Sat & Sun; Les Halles) . Created in 1988 to
establish 'an audiovisual memory bank of Paris', and renovated in dramatic shades of
pink, grey and black, the five-screen complex has a new library and research centre
with newsreels, documentaries and advertising. Check its program online for themat-
ic series and frequent festivals and events.
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