Sometimes life is hard and boring, especially the Monday following the Fashion week craze. Everything seems closed or empty when after a first day of work you just want to chill with your gang and meet random girls. And because at Ten Days In Paris we believe it’s never too early in the week to be hungover, we’re publishing our top picks for a productive Monday night.

Chez Janou

Located in le Marais, they provide great provencal food. But mostly the best pastis selection in le Marais. More than 80 different kinds of pastis. No better way to start the night than duck and pastis.

Chez Janou /2 Rue Roger Verlomme 75003/ Metro: Chemin Vert

Chez Janou

Stollys

Perfect for pregaming. Sometimes you will find British cuties, sometimes French, but you’ll always find pitchers of cheap blonde. Located in le Marais, you just have to sit on the patio, order a beer, and listen to the rock n roll music.

Stollys / 16, rue Cloche Perce 75004 / metro: Saint Paul

Prescription Cocktail Club

If you don’t feel like beer, you can go for cocktails in this clandestine bar of Saint Germain des Pres. Bring your gold card and enjoy some absinthe based drinks.

Prescription Cocktail Club / 23 rue Mazarine, 75006 / Metro Saint Germain des Pres

Prescription Cocktail Club

Le Montana

The Saint Germain des Pres club and Fashion week hotspot is still open on Mondays. After getting wasted at Prescription Cocktail Club, it’s like the logical next step. And who knows, maybe the models dancing won’t notice that you can barely walk and smell like absinthe.

Le Montana / 28 rue Saint Benoit 75006 / Metro: Saint Germain des Pres

Le Montana

Le Baron

If you didn’t make out after trying all these place there is still le Baron. A concert (often very bad) until 1am, so be fashionably late and come at 2am. One of the best nights at le Baron–no suits and only people wanting to enjoy themselves dancing to some 80s music.

Le Baron /6 Avenue Marceau, 75008 / Metro: Alma Marceau

Le Baron

Also open: Le Sans Souci / if you live in the north and are too stingy for a cab / 65 Rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
Experimental Cocktail Club / Another clandestine cocktail club /37 rue saint sauveur
La Perle / Eternal Marais hotspot / 78 Rue Vieille du Temple