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TUB

happners' hot spots

The entrance is through the ceramics shop. Discreet door, staircase, basement. Raw concrete, velvet, bottles reaching up to the ceiling. Mixologist Nicolas only serves his own creations: no mojito, no spritz. Considered blends, sometimes unexpected, made to be sipped slowly. The tapas menu accompanies without stealing focus. What this place naturally filters is the desire to step off the usual script. People who find TUB were looking for something other than the bar on the main square. That gives the clientele something in common from the start.

Cocktail bar

Speakeasy

6 Rue du Petit Scel, 34000 Montpellier

We were both looking for the entrance from the same side of the street

I'd been standing there for ten minutes staring at the ceramics shop, not getting it. A guy showed up with the same confused look. We figured it out together. Downstairs, we ordered the same cocktail without talking about it. Evening sorted.

Sarah, 29