Cravan
Cravan is a Parisian cocktail house founded by Franck Audoux. It takes its name from Arthur Cravan, poet and boxer, a forerunner of Dada and Surrealism, and has two addresses: the first bar, on Rue Jean-de-La-Fontaine in the 16th arrondissement, and a four-level house on Boulevard Saint-Germain.
Their story
- French Moderne, Franck Audoux’s book with Rizzoli
- 2019
- French Moderne, Franck Audoux’s book with Rizzoli
- the Boulevard Saint-Germain house opens
- 2023
- the Boulevard Saint-Germain house opens
- bars over four levels, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
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- bars over four levels, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés
- a Cravan bar at the LaListe Garden Party
- 2026
- a Cravan bar at the LaListe Garden Party
A historian by training, Franck Audoux spent ten years at a contemporary art gallery before turning to food and drink: he is one of the founders of Le Chateaubriand and Le Dauphin, in Paris. He then opened Cravan at 17 Rue Jean-de-La-Fontaine, in the former Café Antoine, at the foot of a building by Hector Guimard. In 2019, Rizzoli New York published his French Moderne, a history of the cocktails of the 1920s and 1930s, with their recipes.
In 2023, Moët Hennessy and Franck Audoux opened Cravan at 165 Boulevard Saint-Germain, in a 17th-century building reimagined by the designer Ramy Fischler. It holds three bars, each with its own decor, a bookshop co-signed with Rizzoli New York and, on the roof, a wrought-iron bandstand that the house presents as one of the smallest open-air cinemas in the world.
Its cocktails can also be enjoyed at home, in bottles developed with the master distillers and blenders of spirits houses and the Alsatian distillery Nusbaumer, and sold with a deposit. A partner of LaListe, Cravan ran a bar at its Garden Party on June 15, 2026, in the Jardins des Invalides: Negroni, Boulevardier with Hennessy cognac, Old Fashioned with Glenmorangie, Quince Margarita and, alcohol-free, the Ginger and the Tuileries.
