City Streets

Agora Presse

Buy every day your local newspaper... and look the magazines and more ...Agora Press is a popular International newsstand in the Marais, right across from the Open Café. Whether you’re searching for a specialty magazine, a foreign newspaper or just want to pick up one of the French dailies, you’re sure to find it all here. There is also a good selection of gay press and books to please the local clientele.

Amnésia Café

A relaxing bar in the heart of the Marais, where one can go to listen to music and have a drink. The service is smiling and always charming. During the evening, l’Amnésia “wakes up” and offers high-energy soirees on the bottom floor, to music of the 80s.

Apparemment Café

A restaurant bar that has adopted a new concept: amid its library-themed interior, you can find yourself a quiet place to enjoy a drink and a good book, or alternatively take advantage of the many board games to amuse yourself with friends. The cocktail and dining menus offer a wide range of choices.

Aux Pied de Cochon

Open 24 hours a day, this brasserie is really an invitation to the typcaly and traditional french cuisine. The exceptional decoration is open on 4 floors with private Rooms. Reservation can be made on-line

Aux Trois Petits Cochons

This is our favorite Gay owned gourmet restaurant in Paris. Located in the famous area of Montorgueil, this restaurant is intimate for a romantic moment with a affordable price. Get a free aperitif if you reffer to us when you book you table.

Banana Café

A tropically decorated bar with well-connected clientele. Centrally located near châtelet, and open all night. An underground bar offers a convivial ambiance every night after midnight (except Monday), with dancing and singing. The entry fee is slightly expensive but one can really have fun!

Bataclan

A multi-faceted establishment, as much a concert hall as a discotheque. Follivores occurs every two weeks, in alternation with the Crazyvores event. It is a soiree which recalls the nostalgia of pandi-panda and sometimes Albator. Revisit the world of Casimir and discover the fountain of youth while dancing and singing to the music of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. An event where gays come to remember their younger years. Numerous bars are at clients’ disposition.

Bliss Kfé

A small lesbian bar in the heart of the Marais, where boys are nevertheless welcome. This bar, with its softened atmosphere, arranges animated evenings with DJettes directing the ambiance. The atmosphere quickly gets hotter as the evening goes on, especially on the weekends, and above all in the basement, which its intimate dance floor and numerous clientele.

Blue book Paris

The unavoidable gay book store in the Marais. Blue Books Paris is a popular and cozy gay bookstore located in a pedestrian side street in the Marais/Beaubourg area, next to Pompidou center. A wide range of books, magazines, CDs and DVDs from all over the world are available. A host of readings, expositions and conferences are also held year-round.

Boy’s Bazar

Boy’s Bazar is by far the most popular gay clothing store in the Marais. There are actually two different outlets located right next door to each other. Boy's Bazar Collection sells top-of-the-line clothing from major designers such as Thierry Mugler, J.-P. Gaultier, Paul Smith, Andrew McKenzie and many others. Boy’s Bazar Basic specializes in jeans, streetwear and basic accessories. A must for any visit to the Marais.

Café Beaubourg

A well connected, trendy café-restaurant, where the most noted feature is the large, modernly-decorated terrace opening up onto the square in front of the Georges Pompidou Center. One can go here to admire the striking architecture of the Pompidou building, or to take advantage of some of the best people-watching in Paris. It must be said that the atmosphere is decidedly spicy.

Centre Georges Pompidou

With its futuristic architecture, it's hard to miss this museum, one of the premier modern art establishments in Europe.

Club 18

The oldest gay club in Paris! It remains, however, a frequented location for a younger and devoted clientele. The dance floor is rather small, but it does permit a corporal proximity that is not at all displeasing while you dance to a range of different sounds, from variety to electronica. An unpretentious place where the new staff and management are young and friendly, a fact which makes Club 18 a uniquely pleasant place to go out at night. On Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays it opens at 8:00 so you can go party early and not be late for work the next day!

Collette

Chic fashion house. Collette is a much-talked-about boutique located on rue St Honoré which maintains an exclusive collection of the very latest in chic objects and clothing. The shop is a destination in itself, complete with its own designer water bar and restaurant below. Beautiful people shopping for beautiful things are all part of this boutique’s energy and glamorous reputation.

Cristal Room Baccarat

Cristal Room designed by Stark

Curieux Spaghetti Bar

Situated on a small rue between the Marais and Beaubourg, this restaurant has a curiously design-influenced décor. A stylish place where patrons dine on spaghetti with various sauces.

Diesel Stylelab Store

Une des grandes enseignes de la mode pour des jeunes gens assez fashion. Diesel propose une grande gamme de vêtements de qualités : jeans, sweat, t-shirt… le tout est très branché et très fréquenté mais aussi porté par les gays. Une grande marque qui propose aussi de nombreux accessoires.

Energie

Energie is another popular brand with gays in Paris and all over Europe. High fashion and high quality, the Energie line proposes several collections throughout the year. And their shop is just a few steps away from Diesel on rue Etienne Marcel. The savvy shopper is sure to find exactly what they’re looking for.

Footsie

A pleasingly original concept—Footsie is named after the London Stock Exchange. In the bar, the price of drinks vary in function of demand. On 4 large screens, you can survey the eventual “price crashes” that will allow you to buy drinks for much less. Just steps from the Opéra.

Kabuki

One of the four Parisian shops from designer Barbara Bui, Kabuki proposes a complete line of women’s prêt-a-porter. Harmonious with its Franco-Vietnamese origins, the style represents a mixture of feminine and androgynous, force and brittleness, relaxation and quality. A line of accessories were added to her creations since 2000.

La Grande Epicerie

The Grande Epicerie is the upmarket food hall of the famous left-bank deparment store, Le Bon Marche. There you will find a unique assortment of food items from all over the world, with a particular emphasis on items which are not easy to find in France. Gourmet prepared items are