This luxurious drinking hole owes much of its renown to Ernest Hemingway. Legend has it that Hemingway personally “liberated” the bar when Paris was freed from the grasp of the Nazis in the closing days of World War II.
It’s said that Hemingway ran up a tab for 51 dry martinis, consumed alongside the American troops who’d accompanied him on the mission to ‘free’ the Ritz - which in fact had already been abandoned by the fleeing Germans long before he arrived.
Bar Hemingway, The Ritz, 38 Rue de Cambon, 75001, Paris