The best bars and cafés Paris 12th 75012

Certainly one of the most beautiful and warmest summer terraces in Paris. Located in the 12th district just behind the AccorHotels Arena, the Papa Cabane is really a must to leave Paris for a festive evening. Wooden terrace, cosy furniture, colored cushions, animations worthy of a vacation club, salsa classes, Latin music and summer hits with a good DJ, but also petanque ground and ping-pong table... The bar offers good cocktails and one of the best mojitos in Paris.

We are always surprised to find relaxing addresses in dynamic and tumultuous neighbourhoods, yet La Seine Café is a member of this small family and we find ourselves relaxing a stone's throw from the Bastille. This new HQ is impressive for its location, its sunny terrace, as well as its design and contemporary decoration. The atmosphere is pop, young, it moves, it runs, all this smells like efficiency and dynamism. Nevertheless, you never feel rushed because the team in place has understood that being efficient does not mean being in a hurry. So we take our time, have a coffee, a glass of wine and enjoy the restaurant's essential dishes.

La Liberté - or La Lib for those in the know - is not only one of the cheapest bars in Paname, it's also atypical, simple, festive and, above all, unpretentious. Students, dreamers, chess fans and fans of good old-fashioned rock (or electro) flock here, as does the Formica-look venue. Exhibitions and impromptu concerts make it an institution in the neighborhood and beyond. Indeed, while the area's regulars are numerous, people also come from far and wide to enjoy the breeze of freedom that blows through - and that's good!