Harry’s New York Bar

Paris


One of the most popular American-style bars in the pre-war years, Harry’s once welcomed writers including F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, who no doubt sampled the bar’s unique cocktail and creation: the Bloody Mary. The Cuban mahogany interior dates from the mid-19th century and was brought over from a Manhattan bar in 1911.

There’s a basement piano bar called Ivories where George Gershwin supposedly composed An American in Paris and, for the peckish, old-school hot dogs to snack on.


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