Le Couloir

About

A small gay bar on rue Alberti, a step off the Promenade du Paillon, and one of the fixtures of the Nice scene: it has been going for close to three decades under the same name.

The room is narrow, which is where the name comes from, and it is decorated to the hilt. Leopard print on the walls, chandeliers over a long red bar, and framed vintage posters and portraits stacked from waist height to ceiling. It fits more people than it looks like it will.

This is a drinking bar rather than a club, and it opens every day. The crowd is mostly regulars and mostly men, and newcomers get talked to.