Badaboum runs three rooms behind one door at 2 bis rue des Taillandiers in Bastille, a concert hall, a late club, and a street-level cocktail bar that the neighbourhood treats as a warm-up room before the music starts.
Who would love it: people who want one address that carries a Wednesday gig, a Friday DJ set, and a well-made drink without changing venues. Who would hate it: anyone after a quiet table, because the format is built for nights that get loud and run late.
The cocktail bar sits at the front, open to the street, with the concert hall and club behind it. Sortir a Paris describes Badaboum as a three-in-one room where a mixology-led bar feeds into a hall that books rising and established artists and a club with a sound system tuned for electro. Paris je t'aime lists the venue under culture rather than dining, which tells you where the priority sits: a music room first, and a bar that happens to be very good second.
Order from the cocktail list at the front bar before the set, where drinks are made to order rather than batched, and pair them with the finger food the kitchen keeps cheap by design. The pricing is built to keep a concert crowd drinking through a long night, so the bar reads as accessible rather than a destination splurge, a point VisitParisRegion makes in its listing.
The room itself is plain and functional, dark walls and a long counter that put the focus on the stage and the speakers rather than the decor. That bare-bones approach is deliberate. It lets the same floor reset from an early-evening drinks crowd to a packed concert pit to a late club without ever pretending to be a lounge.
The crowd shifts with the calendar. Early evening pulls a local Bastille set into the front bar; once the hall fills, the room turns over to whoever the night's act drew, and the club takes the small hours from Thursday to Saturday. The cocktail bar opens at seven on those nights, and the programming runs to six in the morning on weekends, so a single address covers both an aperitif and an after-hours.
Best time to go: a gig night, when the front bar is the warm-up and the hall is the main event, or a Wednesday, when the room is calmer and the cocktail list gets more attention than the dance floor. Check the concert calendar first, because the bar's energy tracks whatever is booked behind it.
What sets Badaboum apart is the stacking. Plenty of Paris rooms do one of these things well; few run a serious cocktail bar, a booked concert hall, and a late club in the same building off a single Bastille side street. That density is why it has held a place on the 11th arrondissement nightlife maps for years rather than turning over like the rooms around it.
For a wider Bastille night, Badaboum anchors the start and pairs with the area's other stages. It sits among the best live music bars in Paris, and the broader live music guide maps the format across other cities. Plot the rest of the night from the Paris bar guide.
What regulars and listings flag most is the value-to-energy ratio. Reviewers on Yelp return for the cheap entry to the cocktail bar and the quality of the acts behind it, while the common note is that the hall gets hot and crowded once a popular set sells out, so the front bar is the place to breathe between rooms. It reads as a night-out machine, built to keep a crowd moving from drink to gig to dance floor without ever leaving the building.
Sources: Sortir a Paris; Paris je t'aime; VisitParisRegion; Badaboum official site; Yelp (updated 2026).
