Bar Hemingway
Intimate cocktail bar inside the Ritz Paris at 15 Place Vendôme, renamed for Ernest Hemingway’s long association with the hotel and still fitted with memorabilia in a wood-panelled room of roughly twenty-five seats. The English Ritz page currently lists service daily from 17:00 to midnight with no reservation required; tapas have a shorter window, recently 17:30 to 22:30. Smart dress is enforced. Early arrival is the only reliable tactic. If the curtain is closed, the room is full and you wait. Colin Field’s long stewardship still defines the house style; successors keep the made-to-order martini and the rose on a woman’s glass. Phone +33 1 43 16 33 74. Useful during Art Basel Paris week if you want a small hotel bar rather than a large cocktail theatre. Budget time for a door wait after 19:00, and be at the door close to 17:00 if you want one of the first seats. Place Vendôme jewelry windows and the Tuileries sit outside; keep dinner as a separate booking. Confirm hours on ritzparis.com the day you go. Hotel guests do not skip the queue by magic. Do not count on tapas after 22:30.
- Address
- Ritz Paris, 15 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris, France
- Official website
- Visit site ↗
- Country
- France
While you're there
Place Vendôme puts you beside Place Vendôme jewelry windows and a short walk toward the Tuileries. For Asian fine dining the same week, Hakuba at Cheval Blanc on Quai du Louvre and L'Abysse at Pavillon Ledoyen are the Banquet Paris map. Arrive early; the room is small and does not take classic dinner reservations.
Pro Tip: Be at the Ritz door close to 5:00 p.m.; the Hemingway room holds roughly two dozen seats, does not run a normal reservation book, and by 7:00 the wait is the evening.
- Best for
- A small Place Vendôme hotel-bar ritual, not a large cocktail theatre.
- Pair with
- Dinner nearby at Hakuba another night.
- Season / timing
- Art Basel Paris week in late October and fashion weeks make early arrival essential.