Paris dining rooms protected as monuments historiques

The state listing attaches to ceilings, painted panels, mosaic floors, mirrors and carved shopfronts, which means the room cannot be altered even when the kitchen changes hands. The buildings include a railway buffet, a snail house, a tripe specialist and a gallery café. Cooking quality varies considerably from one to the next; the protected element is the interior.

Places in this collection

  • Bouillon Chartier — Open since 1896 with a Belle Époque interior classified as a monument historique, a hall built to the scale of an early twentieth-century r…
  • La Coupole — The room, built in 1927 and classified as a monument historique, was painted by thirty-two artists of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger among the…
  • Aux Anysetiers du roy — The storefront and the carved house sign, inscribed by decree of 22 February 1926, are survivors of a seventeenth-century tavern; the sign…
  • Chez Julien — Storefront and interior decor were inscribed as monuments historiques by decree of 23 May 1984, and the whole carries the twentieth-century…
  • Le Grand Colbert — The Pompeian-style paintings on wood are entered in the inventory of historic works, and the room was put back into shape when the galerie…
  • Au Rocher de Cancale — Classified in 1997, at the corner of rue Montorgueil and rue Greneta, in a building of the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century who…
  • Pharamond — The Art Nouveau interior was inscribed as a monument historique by decree of 4 July 1989 and remains the reason to book. The house dates to…
  • L'Escargot Montorgueil — The protection decree of 12 June 1998 covers the ground-floor rooms, the storefront, the canopy, the signage and the ornaments, so the Seco…
  • Au chien qui fume — The Mérimée listing covers the bar-restaurant itself, filed as PA00085783, wood and zinc decor included. It stands a few doors from where t…
  • Le Train Bleu — Built as the buffet of the Gare de Lyon for the 1900 Exposition universelle and classified in September 1972, ceilings and salles included.…

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