A Taste of Home

 

There is a saying that no matter where you are on the planet you're never far from a Packer bar where you can wet your whistle with a refreshing adult beverage and watch the game with like-minded individuals - even if you don't speak the local language.

From our first trip to France in 2012 we made a point to visit this joint...

Located at 184 Rue Saint-Jacques in the Latin Quarter of Paris - is the WOS (Wide Open Spaces) Bar.  

We've paid a call with each of the next two following trips and even made plans to watch the Super Bowl there if the Pack made it that far on our last trip in 2017.

Alas, like many other watering holes across all over the world they closed in October.  Another victim of the pandemic.  Regrettably, their Facebook page remains up but informs the visitor that the establishment is permanently closed. 

Ugh

Packers lose to Falcons.

Guess I won't be pulling an all-nighter at the WOS Bar in Paris.

Ugh...

Go Pack!

Packers Rule.

Cowboys Drool.

One game closer to watching genuine Green Bay Packer football at the WOS Bar...

WOS Bar

It's been a couple of years since I visited this joint but a reader of the old (and shuttered) Tosa Blog recently contacted me and brought to my attention a new website for Europe's most popular Packer Bar.

Paris is probably not on anyone’s shortlist of hotbeds for American football, but on Rue St.-Jacques in the Latin Quarter, near the Sorbonne and Notre Dame, is an establishment, called W.O.S. Bar, where Packers fans gather each week to watch the team play. Patrons of the bar, where a self-proclaimed American expatriate troubadour who goes by the name of Cisco Kid performs after most games, claim that the Packers are the most beloved American football team in Europe, and the bar bills itself as “the official Green Bay Packers bar in Europe.” Perhaps it’s the shared love of cheese that is responsible for such an unlikely Paris-Wisconsin pairing.

                                                        – New York Times

Check it out at: www.Packers.fr 

The Frau and I are heading back to Paris early in the new year.  IT seems only right that we pay this friendly place another visit.