Au Petit Fer à Cheval
Au Petit Fer à Cheval is a Marais institution named for its horseshoe-shaped (fer à cheval) zinc bar — a tiny, perpetually busy café-bar that has been a neighborhood fixture for over a century. You come for a coffee, a glass of wine, or an apéro standing at that famous curved counter, watching the Rue Vieille du Temple go by.
It's the everyday Paris café-bar at its most characterful and most authentic — no concept, just a great old room doing what it has always done.
A historic Marais café-bar built around a horseshoe-shaped zinc counter — small, lively, all-day, on Rue Vieille du Temple. Coffee, wine, apéro, and people-watching.
It's the everyday Paris café-bar at its most characterful and most authentic — no concept, just a great old room doing what it has always done.
Au Petit Fer à Cheval is the everyday Paris café-bar in its purest form — a horseshoe of zinc, a glass of something, and a hundred years of regulars who got there first.
The horseshoe bar is the spot — stand or grab a stool for the full effect.
Great for an apéro or a coffee break while wandering the Marais.
Tiny, so expect it to be busy.