À la Folie

Set in the heart of the Parc de la Villette in the 19th, À la Folie is a sprawling open-air bar, restaurant and club — a 500 m² hall opening onto a leafy 900 m² garden terrace that's pure magic on a warm evening. Easygoing and all-welcoming by day (grills, tapas, cocktails, even a pinball machine), it transforms after dark into one of Paris's go-to venues for the LGBTQIA+ party scene, with a year-round line-up of inclusive, joyfully offbeat nights. Sunday's Bingo Drag is an institution, and the venue regularly hosts landmark queer parties like the house-driven Mustang, plus lesbian and Afroqueer nights. A little off the central circuit but well worth the métro ride, it's where queer Paris heads when it wants space, greenery and a proper dance.