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11am-midnight;
St-Sébastien Frois-
sart)
This tasteful haven, tucked behind the Musée Picasso, is just like home with its wood panel-
ling, leather sofas, scattered parlour games to play and dog-eared books to read. Build-your-
own salads and Sunday brunch (mains €13 to €15).
WINE BAR
LA TARTINE
A wine bar where little has changed since the days of gas lighting, this busy place offers 15
selected reds, whites and rosés by the
pot
(46cL). Its fabulous choice of
tartines
(open-faced
sandwiches, €5.80 to €9.90) served on Poilâne bread make it a hot choice for lunch.
COCKTAIL BAR
BESPOKE
Particularly handy for guests staying at Hôtel Beaumarchais next door, this design-driven
space is a sweet, late-night drink call. In keeping with the image its name evokes, cocktails
are its thing - sipped over shared small plates (€6 to €9) and excellent sweet-potato fries
(€3.50) perhaps. Check out the leather-belt wall!
CAFE, BAR
L'ÉTOILE MANQUANTE
With its fabulous pavement terrace, spilling onto rue Ste-Croix de la Bretonnerie, the Miss-
ing Star is a trendy, gay-friendly bar with a retro interior topped by star-lit vaults.
CAFE
OPEN CAFÉ
A gay venue for all types at all hours, this spacious bar-cafe with twinkling disco balls
strung from the starry ceiling has bags of appeal - not least, a big buzzing pavement terrace,
a kitchen serving breakfast (€8.70), all-day
tartines
(€6.70), and a four-hour happy hour
kicking in daily at 6pm.
BAR, GAY
LE COX
This small gay bar with decor that changes every quarter is
the
meeting place for an interest-
ing (and interested) cruisy crowd throughout the evening from dusk on. OK, we don't like
the in-your-face name either, but what's a boy to do? Happy hour runs 6pm to 10pm daily.
