At the heart of Parisian counterculture on the rue Oberkampf, the large, industrial Café Charbon and adjacent Nouveau Casino club get crowded on weekend nights, when it's open until dawn. Live rock concerts are until 1, then DJ's play [more...]

Bowl late-night in a glowing, club-like atmosphere, or stop in any time of day for the classic bowling experience. Bowling Montparnasse has 16 lanes, 9 pool tables, a bar, and even arcade games, so you can spend a whole afternoon or [more...]

Inside what looks like just another Irish pub, you’ll find the best DJs in town if you or your date are rock critics. The Truskel is a bar/club featuring cutting-edge rock and hard-to-find gems of the past (garage, punk, Britpop, etc) [more...]

Don’t worry about how you dress on this date – when you go dancing at the Gala des Ringards ("ringard" = out of style), it’s the craziest ball of them all. Most are dressed eccentrically to dance to ultra-kitch old French tunes [more...]

Dance like in the olden days at the ball of the Elysee Montmartre, where old and young mix all night to the sounds of a folkloric house band. It’s music to dance in pairs to, so there’s no better for an authentically francophile [more...]

This bright-red barge on the Seine, topped by a mini-lighthouse, is the best rendezvous for an electronic-music-lovers’ date. Drum & bass, house, techno, jungle, even some hip hop and jazz… And not just any old DJs, either, but [more...]

For some good, old-fashion clubbing, bring your date to the tiny Merle Moqueur and dance (or at least try to move in the crowd) on the tiny dance floor to the best of the 80s. No entrance fee. Great atmosphere, very popular place. [more...]

Take your date to *the* salsa place in Paris for some late night dancing and people watching. Things don't really get hopping until around midnight, so plan on doing something else beforehand.

La Coupole
102, boulevard du [more...]

Every summer solstice, June 21st, France celebrates with the Fete de la Musique. If you like night clubs, you'll love this festival where the streets of Paris become one enormous night club for an evening (and into the wee hours of the [more...]