l'Opéra Restaurant - le café rouge

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2nL2DH2Xm3uk8t_A1OsBIKzXYl2xwiJ9LKqR-qbKfzrYjpEebyVlU7UOwPbM-42309sXoJy_8PsDaB5NLI5m5fz8oUyCjydzQUP8XH7CbR_-QhqIvdP_ZR-wWkw6_1WigzYjBg9GYV0/s1600/2013+May+21+0521+Tues_78DSC_5497.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="785" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik2nL2DH2Xm3uk8t_A1OsBIKzXYl2xwiJ9LKqR-qbKfzrYjpEebyVlU7UOwPbM-42309sXoJy_8PsDaB5NLI5m5fz8oUyCjydzQUP8XH7CbR_-QhqIvdP_ZR-wWkw6_1WigzYjBg9GYV0/s1600/2013+May+21+0521+Tues_78DSC_5497.jpg" width="540" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">le café rouge</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Although this photo was taken early in the morning, I have seen a good-sized crowd for lunch.  Just beyond the gates you can see the entrance of l'Opéra Restaurant which I <a href="http://parisandbeyond-genie.blogspot.com/2014/03/palais-garnier-lopera-restaurant.html" target="_blank">featured several weeks ag</a>o.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Have you been here?  </div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you tell me how you found the food and the service? </div><div style="text-align: center;"> It might be worth having a coffee and a small pastry </div><div style="text-align: center;">to watch the world walking by.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">bon weekend</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">café at l'Opéra Restaurant</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Palais Garnier</span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1, place Jacques Rouchés</span></span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75009, Paris</span></span></i></span></div>

l'Opéra Restaurant - le café rouge

le café rouge Although this photo was taken early in the morning, I have seen a good-sized crowd for lunch.  Just beyond the gates you can s...

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Palais Garnier - L'Opéra Restaurant

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnB4hHOhcjNHvaWlIKnihyphenhyphenFzouYZT5i2tFgFuapNgsg6sYoqkx0p5hHMMEQBtkpG1vN7fg1zuYtosfsV5AbpY5-2mxMb8r1kcc3WI2fUni1FWk4jNTvUnNSGmJWQ7I5Nrw8LDalcflij0/s1600/2011+Nov+day+8+P1010559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnB4hHOhcjNHvaWlIKnihyphenhyphenFzouYZT5i2tFgFuapNgsg6sYoqkx0p5hHMMEQBtkpG1vN7fg1zuYtosfsV5AbpY5-2mxMb8r1kcc3WI2fUni1FWk4jNTvUnNSGmJWQ7I5Nrw8LDalcflij0/s1600/2011+Nov+day+8+P1010559.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Palais Garnier</div><div style="text-align: center;">L'Opéra Restaurant</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you imagine getting approval to build a restaurant as part of the storied Palais Garnier, only to discover that you could touch no walls, attach nothing to the 19th century structure?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Impossible?  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yet, here it is, and the artistry is magnificent as the curved transparent walls appear to float, moving in waves around Garnier's architecture on the northeast side.  It was conceived by the architect Odile Decq in the heart of the Palais Garnier. A mezzanine made of amazing shapes surrounds the original architecture of the Palais Garnier without ever touching it.  Opened in 2011, it is worthy of a special evening with Paris friends.  Oh, I would not wear red as you might disappear into the elegant seating.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">L'Opéra Restaurant</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Palais Garnier</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">1, place Jacques Rouchés</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">75009, Paris</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span></i></div>

Palais Garnier - L'Opéra Restaurant

Palais Garnier L'Opéra Restaurant Can you imagine getting approval to build a restaurant as part of the storied Palais Garnier, only to ...

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