l'Opéra Restaurant - le café rouge

le café rouge

Although this photo was taken early in the morning, I have seen a good-sized crowd for lunch.  Just beyond the gates you can see the entrance of l'Opéra Restaurant which I featured several weeks ago.

Have you been here?  

Can you tell me how you found the food and the service? 

 It might be worth having a coffee and a small pastry 

to watch the world walking by.

bon weekend

café at l'Opéra Restaurant

Palais Garnier

1, place Jacques Rouchés

75009, Paris

Palais Garnier - L'Opéra Restaurant

Palais Garnier

L'Opéra Restaurant

Can you imagine getting approval to build a restaurant as part of the storied Palais Garnier, only to discover that you could touch no walls, attach nothing to the 19th century structure?

Impossible?  

Yet, here it is, and the artistry is magnificent as the curved transparent walls appear to float, moving in waves around Garnier's architecture on the northeast side.  It was conceived by the architect Odile Decq in the heart of the Palais Garnier. A mezzanine made of amazing shapes surrounds the original architecture of the Palais Garnier without ever touching it.  Opened in 2011, it is worthy of a special evening with Paris friends.  Oh, I would not wear red as you might disappear into the elegant seating.

L'Opéra Restaurant

Palais Garnier

1, place Jacques Rouchés

75009, Paris