Bar Hemingway
Paris, France
WORLD'S50 BEST2011WORLD'S50 BEST2010
No. 39 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2010. No. 48 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2011.
Twenty-five seats, unchanged decor, and a Dry Martini recipe that has survived every trend the cocktail industry has produced since Ernest Hemingway drank here with F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s. The Ritz's jewel-box bar delivers tailor-made cocktails with a formality that reads as genuine rather than performative, ladies' drinks arrive with a rose, and the bartender remembers your order from your last visit. Bar Hemingway does not compete with modern cocktail bars. It occupies a category they cannot enter.
