Deal with: 63, rue de Belleville, 75019
Hours: Open Wednesday-Saturday from 6pm-2am. Open Sunday & Monday from 6pm-12am. Closed Tuesday.
Phone: +33 9 80 84 78 60
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Craft cocktails are by now so established on Paris’ nightlife scene that some comment, wistfully, that they’re a younger man’s recreation. The 2017 opening of Fight – a good looking, welcoming, and courageously far-flung mixology vacation spot within the heights of Belleville – proves this fallacious. Named for the archaic time period for its district, Fight dispenses with the extra juvenile trappings of the style. Gone are the fake exclusivity, the darkness, the inescapable DJs. As a substitute, Fight focuses on the elemental pleasures of an evening in town: honest hospitality, informal open-air consolation, and impeccable bartending expertise.
Fight’s sparse, mid-century fridge design boasts a terrace onto the cascading culture-clash of the rue de Belleville. Inside is a eating room, a backroom open to privatization, and Paris’ strangest bathroom. The semi-private affair provides out onto a hand-washing fountain and the backs of some (presumably emergency-only) bar seats. Six seats not located in the bathroom provide viewers to the bar’s supremely savvy owner-operators: Margot Lecarpentier (an Experimental Cocktail Membership alum), Maxime Potfer (inventive director of the Experimental Cocktail Group), and Elena Schmitt, a former mental property lawyer turned cocktail savant.
The cocktail menu is without delay geeky and accessible. Somebody behind the bar evidently loves shrubs: house-made acidulated concoctions based mostly on fruit and sugar. The “14130” is a balanced, canary-yellow mix of calvados, white radish shrub, arabic gum syrup, and lime, garnished with a petal of seaweed.
Care has additionally been taken to make the expertise egalitarian, as regards each price range and alcohol tolerance. A cocktail du jour is simply 8€, and the record gives to improvise non-alcoholic cocktails. Additional hangover prevention comes within the type of Fight’s quite a few “pairing” cocktails: drinks that arrive with a grand nibble alongside, just like the artichoke extravaganza of a Cynar Collins accompanied by a plate of marinated artichokes pebbled with roast hazelnuts. The remainder of the bar’s restricted meals menu boasts wonderful pedigree: terrines from rue Amelot terrine king Rodolphe Paquin, bread from Thierry Breton, 48-month aged gouda.
Fight is clearly the work of passionate individuals who have given thought to creating a cocktail bar for the ages. They’ve succeeded, giving Paris a glamorous, unaffected spot for anybody who has ever apprehensive about outgrowing cocktail bars.
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In Different Phrases
Le Parisien (2018) notes that it’s uncommon to discover a cocktail bar run by
girls, including that Fight’s costs are cheaper than cocktail bars within the
heart of Paris.
Le Nouvel Observateur (2018) recounts the transatlantic profession of Margot
Lecarpentier in its adoring profile, written for the event of her look
on the Omnivore pageant.
Le
Fooding (2017) says that
Fight renders its neighorhood “the usual bearer for profitable bars.”
Time Out (2017) suggests Fight for individuals who need their cocktails
with none tussles.
Mixology
(2017) calls Fight “a cocktail bar with the look of a bistrot” and praises its
“sustainable, do-it-yourself menu.”