Les Ambassadeurs is a restaurant in Paris, France.
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It is situated in the Hôtel de Crillon, facing the Place de la Concorde in the heart of the city. Built in 1758, Les Ambassadeurs has operated as a restaurant within the hotel since the mid 19th century.
Decorated in an 18th century rococo style, Les Ambassadeurs reached its peak of fame as a restaurant and nightclub (known as a café-concert) 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.
With chef Jean-François Piège, the restaurant has two Michelin stars.