The love affair between the Paris brasseries and the theatre has always been common knowledge.
Given a script, actors, music and with the whole of Paris as the backdrop, the show in effect takes place on the boulevards, where the brasseries are never very far from the scene. It is they who provide a true star's welcome to the spectator prior to a concert or the playgoer following curtain-fall, where a platter of seafood goes down well with artistic the conversation.
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It might be on stage that the play is acted out, but it is at table that the menu is interpreted. This long-lasting union provides nourishment for mind and body, and is celebrated every night in this exciting city.
Just like in the theatre, a red velvet curtain in the brasserie entrance is drawn back to reveal a scene of different kind, one where an usher, dressed in sober attire, takes your coat and guides you to your table to present the culinary program. In this theatre, however, the decor is for real. And the dining room, with its bench seats, the glittering mirrors, the ceiling lights, the gleaming copper and polished bar is as much a spectacle as is the show created especially for your palate. Here, the curtain goes up here early in the morning and falls late at night, when the incessant ballet of the day, directed by an invisible hand, has come to an end.
It is the brasserie spirit, mixture of good humor and fine traditional fare, which makes the women so beautiful and the men so genial, and provides an ambience which constantly lures you back.
Good food and conviviality, laughter and bravos, the whole of is Paris on stage and at table. With a coffee as the final ovation !
