SOURCE: FODORS
Ernest Hemingway was not only a great writer; he was also an ambitious traveler who spent extended periods of time in Paris, Madrid, Pamplona, Venice, Havana, and Key West.
No matter where he went, he frequented the best bars and restaurants—from the Ritz in Paris to Harry’s Bar in Venice—often writing about these places in his novels and short stories and thus ensuring their long-lived fame.
In honor of Hemingway’s upcoming birthday—he would have turned 115 years old on July 21—here are some of his favorite haunts around the world.
THE RITZ PARIS
Where: Paris
"Whenever I dream of afterlife in Heaven," Hemingway wrote, "the action always takes place at the Paris Ritz."
Indeed, there are few places in the world more closely associated with Hemingway.
He often drank with F. Scott Fitzgerald at the bar that now bears his name.
But of all his antics, he's probably most famous for storming the Ritz at the end of WWII—careening into the hotel with a group of displaced soldiers, declaring the place free, and ordering champagne for everyone.
The hotel makes an appearance in The Sun Also Rises.
BRASSERIE LIPP
Where: Paris
As a young expatriate in Paris, Hemingway lived in a small apartment in the Latin Quarter and enjoyed wandering around the Left Bank.
In A Moveable Feast, he recounts going to the Musée du Luxembourg on an empty stomach and appreciating the Cézannes all the more because he was so hungry.
When it got to be too much for him, he would stop at Brasserie Lipp on Boulevard Saint-Germain for a liter of beer and pommes à l'huile with sausage.
This classic Parisian brasserie still serves the same fare, and the waiters still sport white waistcoats with black bowties and aprons.
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