There is no music in Bar Hemingway. Colin Field prefers to encourage conversations between customers or, often, with himself.

The End of the Affair

The legendary bartender at the Ritz Paris says au revoir after 29 years

By Adam Sage

His customers have included Kate Moss and at least three James Bonds — Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. His cocktails have entered Parisian folklore. His inventions have influenced bars across the city.

Now Colin Field, 62, is leaving the Hemingway Bar at Paris’s Ritz Hotel after a stint of almost 30 years that has made him a star among the great and good and, by consensus, one of the world’s finest bartenders.