Replace: Chambre Noire is now serving a totally vegetarian menu
82 Rue de la Folie-Mericourt (75011)
Open Tuesday-Saturday from 6-11:30pm. Closed Sunday & Monday.
No reservations
Since Chambre Noire first opened in 2015, it has turn out to be the town’s most daring and youthful pure wine bar. The anarchic, changeling spot is the brainchild of sculptor Rémy Kaneko and Mexican expat and former associate at close by Café Chilango, Oliver Lomeli. It affords a reasonable dive into the European sulfur-free winemaking vanguard.
At this no-reservations vacation spot, no bottles are priced over 35€. Most derive from the unconventional fringe of pure winemaking, a realm the place whites are sometimes honey-colored and reds can typically be confused for flippantly glowing rosé. Arrayed in a luminescent panoply above the chaotic bar, these zippy, mouthwatering wines shine in a means they don’t when introduced in a luxurious restaurant context.
Chambre Noire’s eating room has loads of tables, however on most nights they’re of secondary significance to its bar seats, excessive tables, and out of doors benches full of carefree people who smoke. Behind the bar, Lomeli, Koneko and their staff assemble a menu of interesting, wholesome bar snacks, starting from a lavender-green heap of sautéed greens to a plate of simply-seasoned razor clams to chopped roasted eggplant beneath a cascade of rough-cut parsley. That the plates present not one of the polish of knowledgeable restaurant kitchen solely provides to Chambre Noire’s homespun, outsider attraction.
From apéro to the wee hours, Chambre Noire pulls in a crowd that makes a lot of the Paris’ cocktail bars – not to mention its wine bars – look staid by comparability. When Ol’ Soiled Bastard as soon as declared, “Wu-Tang is for the kids,” he was speaking a few generational shift in rap. Chambre Noire exhibits the identical is happening within the Paris wine scene.
OUR PHOTOS OF CHAMBRE NOIRE
IN OTHER WORDS
La Trentaine Parisienne (2016) praises the cosmopolitan language mix and
Berlin-style atmosphere of Chambre Noire.
Time
Out (2015) reviewed Chambre
Noire throughout the bar’s preliminary stage as a chaotic cocktail bar. However the
reviewer’s commentary that it’s a bar reimagined as a kind of communal
creative platform nonetheless roughly applies.
