Blue Dragon is the kind of bar Alain Delon would get a drink in after getting out of prison: quiet, with velvety French wine, the burnt-sugar aroma of Cuban cigars and a Detroit soundtrack. The location, on the square in front of the Royal Palace, draws a mix of outsized local characters and unsuspecting tourists. There is no menu. A friendly bartender works the room and can make whatever a serious drinker might order. In the evenings, as the sun sinks behind the palace spires, a friendly, mixed-language crowd drinks and laughs, unsuspecting bit characters in a cast of hard-boiled police detectives and hit men. The only thing missing is a get-away car. Blue Dragon, #291 Street 184.
