Bars: Hideout

Saturday night, we went to this bar called Hideout.  It's off of Rue Mouffetard on a tiny street called Rue Des Lombards.

Rue Mouffetard is full of fun bars and restaurants and is quite the place to be both on weekends and weeknights.  It's like the meatpacking district in NYC minus the scantly clad Staten Island girls.  But it does have trendy places condensed in one small area, and it even has the cobblestone roads.

Hideout is composed of a crowd of 20somethings, mostly guys, loud music and red walls.  On this night a pint of beer was 5 euro and a round of ten shots was 35 euro (but that didn't stop us).  They gave us our shots in a nifty little block of wood, complete with salt and limes.

We had to show some French guy what to do with the salt and lime.  I guess they don't do that kind of thing in France.  We also discovered that guys don't really buy drinks for girls here.  Bummer.

We ended up leaving the bar wayyyy too late because it stays open all night (most bars close at 2 am).  This was a problem because the metro also stops at 2 am.  But luckily, we met some fun people to hang out with at an ungodly hour and we had a lot to drink.  So everyone was in good spirits.

Last night, which was a Tuesday night, we heard that Hideout was having happy hour all night long.  We decided to go again since last time was such a blast, but we figured no one would be there because it was a Tuesday.

It was packed.  There were probably three times as many people there than on Saturday night.  It was like being in a mosh pit of drunken skinny french men.  We loved it.  A pint of beer was 2.50 euro, so I decided that would be my drink for the night.  We met more fun people, practiced our French, and saved some money.  Definitely a successful night.