Founded in 1880, the Restaurant Drouant has grown from a small “bar tabac” to a gastronomic restaurant that cannot be ignored.
Founded in 1880, the Restaurant Drouant has grown from a small “bar tabac” to a gastronomic restaurant that cannot be ignored.
The Alsatian Charles Drouant settled in Paris in 1880 within these walls to set up his tobacco bar. The case took a whole new turn in 1914 when the Goncourt jury decided to set up their deliberation headquarters there, followed in 1926 by the Renaudot jury.
The multiple private rooms of the establishment indeed make it possible, in all intimacy, to have lunch there for business, for a private and/or cultural event such as these prestigious literary prizes.
In the 1920s, Jean Drouant decided to call upon Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, nicknamed the “pope of Art Deco” to renovate the various rooms. The Parisian bistro then became a temple of gastronomy.
Its majestic staircase, its old-fashioned wood paneled façade, its winter garden and, of course, its sumptuous kitchen make Drouant an exceptional establishment in more ways than one.
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