July 7, 2009
I visited this hostelry during my crawl of 22nd November 2008. Around halfway up Rue St Denis, it lies in a fairly touristy area of the city but nevertheless it attracts a completely mixed clientele of all age groups, creeds and backgrounds. Visitors to the Hall’s Beer Tavern will find a long, narrow, cavernous pub with plenty of rough exposed brickwork adding to the cave feel. The bar is on the right as you enter and tables for diners and drinkers form an aisle down the cave. Lighting levels comfortable, and the pub had been tastefully decorated for Christmas without overdoing things. There is an outside seating area in the front providing around 10 tables, sheltered beneath a tarpaulin. Television screens were displaying sport with the sound off while I was here. There are eight draught beers available including a novelty beer "Desperados" with a peculiar tequila flavour which indeed was an acquired taste! I quickly retreated to the comfort zone of De Koninck which actually was a good cadence to the session here. Also available were Guinness and Carling - I include these for completeness of review only! A very busy bar and kitchen here, food quality appeared impressive judging by the fullness of plates leaving the kitchen and the emptiness of those returning. A blackboard showed sandwiches available at between 4 and 5 euro for those not wishing to dine big time. Although not much English was spoken except between a group of US vacationers, I found sitting at the bar the best place to be this evening and a few choice words of French worked wonders especially when asking for the hoppiest beer available! The Hall’s Beer Tavern merits a visit, even if only as part of a crawl through central Paris - 70 awarded with this review

June 9, 2009
a pub with classic European beers and 100 bottled beers

April 25, 2009
A fun stop on Rue St: Denis. Long and narrow. Reminds of a cave. Like an older pub outside London center. Lot of attention from a big, very friendly German shepherd of the canine type. Quite decent beers. Rare beers? That’s a perspective issue.

February 5, 2009
Hall’s is an English style looking pub with a good selection of bottled beers and a few draft, Around halfway up Rue St Denis, it lies in a fairly touristy area of the city. The staff are friendly, nice enough place to visit, i would stop in again if in the area. I found a Thomas Hardy Ale there that was soooo Good!.

January 22, 2008
It looks like a (once smokey) dark English pub. I can’t deny that in the paris beer sadness, this place deserves at least to be listed. I think that the Chouffe on draught is a rare thing here. There are maybe less bottles than 200. As said below here, it may be a place for a stop, but not to look for French rarities.

October 5, 2006 [ Updated October 8, 2009 ]
All right for Paris, I guess, with a range of draft and bottled beers. Beer from Belgium, Germany , Quebec etc. as well as France. Not many French rarieties, though.

July 30, 2005
Beer list looked long but they really didn’t have so many. Ok place to rate some French - prices are sky-high for them as everywhere in Paris.

October 6, 2004 [ Updated January 23, 2005 ]
It is a beer bar and one of the finest in Paris. Located on one of my favorite streets in Paris: Rue St. Denis. It is interesting to note that is down the street from a beer bar of lesser excellence, that being Au Trappiste. The beer list is very extensive, about 200, many of which are not on the menu. While I was here I had La Guillotine from Huyghe, Maredsous 10 from Moorgat and then went crazy and had two fantastic 1999 Thomas Hardy’s. They also had about 12 beers on draft including La Chouffe. Comfortable and lively atmosphere. The booths were large. Open air, both inside and outside. The staff was very friendly and even said, oh do I dare say it, yes, they said &quo;thanks&quo; when we left! In French ofcourse. Some of the waitresses were absolutely gorgeous. I’ll be back.