The Ritz remains the epitome of Parisian chic. It has two entrances though, one grandiose at 15 Place Vendome, and a back street one Rue Cambon. An impossibly small door revolves into a marble lobby. To the left an Art Deco bar which, when it opened in 1921, soon attracted the American literary crowd. To the right, a little writing room nicknamed “Cambon Dog House”, was used by Hemingway and his lot to sit down to business. Two masterpieces “The Sun Also Rises” and “A Moveable Feast” recount these heady post war days.
Today the Hemingway bar is located in the former petit bar. Colin Field, fine heir to a great tradition, created “Volante”, a yellow pepper and green tabasco Potocki cocktail, named after the Aston Martin convertible models.
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