Les Ambassadeurs restaurant
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Les Ambassadeurs is a restaurant in Paris, France.
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[edit] Location
It is situated in the five star Hôtel de Crillon, facing the Place de la Concorde in the heart of the city. Built as a palace in 1758, Les Ambassadeurs has operated as a restaurant within the hotel since the mid 19th century.
[edit] History
Decorated in a 18th century rococo style, Les Ambassadeurs reached its peak of fame as a restaurant and nightclub in the 1870s 80s and 90s, a few hundred meters from the Palais Garnier. Always a center of entertainment for the aristocracy, in the 1870s it was a regular destination of some of the best known figures of art and the demi-monde. Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed visitors at the night club,[1] and Aristide Bruant performed there.
[edit] Current restaurant
With chef Jean-François Piège, the restaurant was voted 45th best in the world in Restaurant (magazine) Top 50 2008. It has two Michelin stars.
[edit] References
- ^ See Toulouse-Lautrec's Fashionable People at Les Ambassadeurs (1893). A Study is at the Tate Galleries. See also Degas' Cabaret (1876-77).
- George E. Smith, III. James, Degas, and the Modern View. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 56-72
- 2001 Review of Les Ambassadeurs at the Daily Telegraph
- PAUL GOLDBERGER. GRAND PARISIAN ROOMS ON A LEGENDARY SQUARE. The New York Times, July 7, 1985.
[edit] External links
- John Mariani. Virtual Gorment Review, July 10, 2005.
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