La Capsule pours craft beer at 28 Avenue de Laumière, a small bar in the 19th arrondissement a few steps from the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont. The taps rotate, the prices stay low, and a narrow terrace spills onto the avenue when the weather holds.
Who would love it: beer drinkers who want a rotating tap list without a cocktail-bar markup. Who would hate it: anyone after wine, spirits, or a quiet seat, since the room is small and built around the bar.
The bar runs an unfussy room with the taps as the centrepiece, and Mister Good Beer lists pints starting at five euros, which is low for central Paris. The selection leans on craft and Belgian pours that change often, so the board is worth reading before ordering. The terrace adds a handful of outdoor seats that fill first on a warm evening.
The room itself is narrow and bare by design, with the bar and the tap wall doing the talking and a chalkboard tracking what is on. There is little in the way of decor, which suits a bar that puts the glass first, and the terrace tables on Avenue de Laumière hold the better seats once the sun is out. Inside fills shoulder to shoulder on a busy night, so the early arrival is the one that lands a stool.
The tap list leans local and Belgian, with French microbrewery kegs rotating alongside the imports, and the staff keep tasting notes for the unfamiliar pours. Mister Good Beer frames it as one of the cheaper craft rooms in the quarter, and the appeal holds for anyone who would rather sample three half-pints than commit a full tab to one. Bottles cover the styles the taps miss, so a drinker is rarely stuck for a sour or a strong Belgian.
Order whatever sits freshest on the rotating board, and ask the bar for a taste before committing to a full pint. The value is the point here, so the move is to work through two or three different pours rather than settle on one. Kilomètre Zéro placed it among its top Paris craft beer bars, and the appeal is a changing tap list at a price that lets a drinker sample widely.
What regulars flag, across Google and beer guides, is the value and the rotation, with the small size noted as the trade. Reviewers describe a friendly bar that fills quickly on weekend nights, so the terrace and the few inside seats go early. The same notes praise staff who steer newcomers through unfamiliar styles.
Best time to go is a warm late afternoon for a terrace seat after the park, or early evening on a weeknight before the room fills. The bar opens late afternoon and runs toward 2am, so it works as both a first stop and a last one. Weekend nights run busiest.
Who it is for: craft beer drinkers after value and variety, park-goers finishing an afternoon at Buttes-Chaumont, and anyone who wants to taste widely without a steep tab. Who it is not for: wine or cocktail drinkers, since this is a beer bar first.
La Capsule pairs with a Buttes-Chaumont afternoon and the canal bars further south, an easy early stop on a 19th-arrondissement crawl. It works as the value beer break between the park and the Canal de l'Ourcq, a short walk from Laumière station on line 5. Street parking is tight in the quarter, so the metro is the easier arrival.
It earns its place in the city's craft beer bar conversation. See where it lands in our guide to the best craft beer bars in Paris, browse the full Paris bar guide, and compare it across the wider best craft beer bars worldwide.
