Brasseries, seafood, gourmet restaurants, sushi… So far we’ve recommended numerous restaurants but we haven’t yet given you any tips on where to go for a night on the tiles or a drink in the neighbourhood. So to set that straight, we have prepared the following suggestion for a typical night out. Cheers!

22:00 – You’ve left the restaurant, but you’re not quite ready for the dance floor. A brief pause is called for while you digest your dinner. As you find beer boring and drinking wine without cheese crazy, you head straight for the Pixel Bar, a cocktail bar where the barman is you! Or almost. You choose the ingredients and admire the dexterity of Michel the bartender as he mixes your cocktail, then you drink it. Nothing simpler. The cocktail is a success, so you name it after yourself! One small step towards drunkenness, one giant step towards fame…

Midnight – After inventing and drinking half a dozen cocktails, you’re in the mood for dancing. You’re so confident in your dancing skills that if Michael Jackson were still alive, you would be ready to take him on on the dancefloor! wagg

So your next stop is Wagg (previously Whisky A Go Go), a small club offering a mix of music: from London’s Carwash on Fridays to house and revival on Saturdays. The perfect place to warm up.

2 :00 – You’re boiling hot. The Wagg is too small for your enormous talent, so you cross the Seine and decide to go to the Rex Club, where Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox and Daft Punk have gone before you… In this Parisian temple of electro music, your feet are smoking and your bank card is quickly warming up … a volcanic eruption of happiness is approaching!

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5:00 – As you’re a reasonable person, you tell yourself that it’s late and a last drink isn’t really necessary. On the other hand, you wouldn’t say no to a nice meal. Dancing can certainly work up an appetite. So at a leisurely pace, you head for the Pied de Cochon to enjoy a hearty, rustic meal at any time of the day or night.

6:00 - It’s late (or early, depending on how you look at it). You’re a bit tired and you’re wise enough not to order a last coffee after your meal. You walk past the Saint Eustache church, heading for les Halles metro and hop on the metro, south-bound. A hundred metres from Saint Placide metro, a friendly smile from the night receptionist and then bed.

What more can we say… good night ?

COCKTAILS - Le Pixel Bar, 10 Rue Dauphine, 76006 Paris

CLUBS - Le Wagg, 62 rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris - Le Rex, 1 Boulevard Poissonnière 75002 Paris

RESTAURANT - Au Pied de cochon, 6 Rue Coquillière, 75001 Paris