Baobar

The Baobar is a very nice bar in the district Saint-Leu in Amiens. From outside it looks like a normal bar, but actually it’s very special inside. It has three floors, getting smaller the more you walk upstairs. It’s decorated in an African style with small tables, different chairs (sometimes it’s just a stool) and benches and a lot of pictures and things on the walls.

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The more you walk up, the more comfortable it gets because you have small niches under the roof and some very private corners. So upstairs is more suitable for couples and first dates (I tested that), while downstairs and in the second floor you find larger tables for groups of friends and colleagues.

Even if the bar is quite small and cosy the waiter come quite quickly to bring your drinks. You can have kind of everything you get in a normal bar, too: cocktails, coffee, refreshments and beer. Even if it’s often quite full in there, you almost always find a place because they have a lot of small seats and tables you can combine quickly so that it suits for every event and group of people.

So if you want to try a kind of special bar with a lot of charm and some African atmosphere, try Baobar in Amiens – I have passed a lot of wonderful evenings in there, and the people who work there are always kind and friendly, even if you don’t speak French so well! In summer you can also sit outside where one can smoke and enjoy the (few) sunshine and watch the people walking around in that place right next to the faculty of economics. So you will find a lot of young people in there, because it’s close to the university and right in the city centre next to all restaurants and other bars and clubs.