Bars & clubs - Paris e-guide: The Travel Guide with its Own Website - page 139

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8 G3

Bar des Théâtres unusual mix
6 avenue Montaigne, 8ème • 01 47 23 34 63
Open all day to 2am daily
Popular with PRs from fashion houses, boys who work
on the Bateaux Mouches, actors and audiences from
the Théâtre du Champs Elysées (see p121) and anyone
else who hangs out in Paris's Golden Triangle. A good
spot for coffee or a café lunch, this is an attitude-free,
rambunctious zinc bar and a rare find for the area.

8 H2

Mathi's insider address
3 rue Ponthieu, 8ème • 01 53 76 01 62
Open to 2am Sun-Thu, to 5am Fri & Sat
Tucked away in a nondescript hotel, Mathi's morphs
into a hedonistic haven after midnight. This petite bar
fills up with super-glamorous folk flirting over the
buzz of rather dire 80s music and under the eagle eye
of the scary leopard-print-clad hostess. Hard to get
into, but most definitely worth a try.

8 G3

Le Bar du PLAZA look-at-me bar
Plaza Athenée, 25 avenue Montaigne, 8ème • 01 53 67 66 65
www.plaza-athenee-paris.com Open to 2am daily
Fashionistas, advertising executives and assorted
beautiful people flock here to see and be seen. The
interior offers high-set chairs and tables to perch at for
maximum visibility, recessed seating to hide from
prying eyes and flattering lighting to bring out every-
one's best side. Serious cocktails at serious prices.

8 F1

Le Queen famous clubbers' favourite
102 avenue des Champs Elysées, 8ème • 01 53 89 08 90
www.queen.fr Open to 6am daily
A real legend, Le Queen still entices glamorous gays
and hip heteros past the notoriously difficult-to-access
velvet rope. Disco divas love Monday's Disco Inferno,
and fans of superstar DJs are bowled over by the sets of
those who play here. Exhibitionists take note: women
should dress scantily, men should dress tight. ADM