Harry's New York Bar

Paris, France

No. 9 on The World's 50 Best Bars 2011. The World's 50 Best Bars: No. 9 (2010), No. 15 (2009). No. 27 on Europe's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Born 26 November 1911, when a Manhattan bar's interior was dismantled and shipped to 'Sank Roo Doe Noo', the phonetic address that let Anglophones direct any taxi to 5 rue Daunou. Run by the MacElhone family for four generations (today Franz-Arthur, Harry's great-grandson), it claims the invention of the Bloody Mary, White Lady, Sidecar, French 75 and Blue Lagoon, keeps 400+ cocktails in the repertoire, and hosts nightly piano from 10pm in the room where Gershwin composed An American in Paris.