“Picasso, Cocteau, Max Jacob all sat at the SELECT’s terrace, as well as Derain, Matisse and Foujita, Henri Muller, Ernest Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald had their habits at the varnished wood bar where today Philippe, the barman, cocktail master and soccer expert, always has an ear for his client’s stories” By Charles Lancar, abstract from the article in the menu.