There’s Two Sides to Every Cocktail at Bar Nouveau in Paris

Last fall, I was perched in the window seat at Bar Nouveau in Paris sipping a Ramos and watching the bartenders send out rounds of drinks. The bar is tiny and every seat was taken, so my date and I were perplexed when we kept seeing patrons walk in and not immediately walk right back out.

“Is there another bar here?” we wondered. We asked our bartender, and yes, there was indeed another bar...