Pamela Paris Guide: A Left Bank Cellar Club With Rock History

Pamela is a vaulted cellar club at 62 rue Mazarine, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés on the Left Bank, Paris's 6th arrondissement. Open since 2021, it runs Thursday to Saturday until 6am with house, techno, disco and hip-hop, holds about 350 people and has a selective door, so it's a small, late, smart night rather than a big club.

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The story behind the name

The room was the Rock'n'Roll Circus in the 1970s, a hangout for rock musicians. According to the Paris Region tourist board, the current owners named the club after Jim Morrison, who was a regular, and his companion Pamela Courson. The new club kept the setting and changed the soundtrack: stone vaults, seventies furniture and big mirrorballs, with house, techno and disco instead of guitars. If you know the Left Bank only for its literary cafés, this is its late-night side, a few floors down.

Inside: alcoves, a big smoking room and La P3

Time Out Paris (March 2026) lists Pamela among the city's best clubs and describes alcoves around the floor, an oversized smoking room and a cocktail menu, with programming by Joe Lewandowski. The queer night La P3 is based here, which gives the club a mixed, open crowd on those dates. The 2026 calendar ran from a house night in April to a party on 18 July that started just before midnight and went on until 6am, with Noel, Al-Azar and Angi a week earlier. Expect a crowded, warm room where the DJ is never far away.

The music moves between house, disco and techno, with hip-hop DJs on some nights according to Time Out, which makes it easier for a mixed group than a strictly techno room. Time Out also singles out the cocktail menu, served in the same vaulted space, so there's no need to leave for a proper drink. And the smoking room is unusually large for a Paris club, which you'll appreciate on a cold night when the pavement is the only other option.

Getting past the door

Pamela doesn't publish a dress code, but listings describe a selective door, and with only about 350 places it fills up. A few things help: come as a small group, dress smart-casual rather than sporty, and arrive at a reasonable hour rather than at 3am. Opening times differ slightly by source (Time Out says midnight, the tourist board 11pm), so take 11pm as the earliest. A table or a guest-list spot comes down to the night and the door; drop us the date and your numbers on WhatsApp.

A Saint-Germain evening

Pamela works best as the last stop of a Left Bank evening: dinner and a drink in Saint-Germain, then down into the cellar around midnight. Crossing back to the Right Bank afterwards is part of the night. The last metro reaches the end of the line around 1:15am on weeknights and 2:15am on Fridays and Saturdays; after that, the Noctilien night buses take over, and by the 6am close the morning metro is starting again.

Who is it for? Couples and small groups of friends who like house and disco in a room with character, birthday groups who want a cosy corner, and visitors staying on the Left Bank who don't fancy crossing the city to dance. It's less suited to a big group arriving all at once, or to anyone after a huge sound system and a 7am finish; for that, Rex Club and the techno rooms of the Right Bank are a better bet.