Les Ambassadeurs restaurant
- Les Ambassadeurs restaurant
Les Ambassadeurs is a restaurant in Paris, France.
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.
History
Decorated in a 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, [See Toulouse-Lautrec's "Fashionable People at Les Ambassadeurs (1893)". A [http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/degas/room3.htm Study] is at the Tate Galleries. See also Degas' [http://www.corcoran.org/collection/highlights_name_results.asp?Artist_ID=93 "Cabaret" (1876-77)] .] and Aristide Bruant performed there.
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.
References
*George E. Smith, III. James, Degas, and the Modern View. NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 56-72
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2001/04/30/etparis30.xml&page=3 2001 Review of Les Ambassadeurs] at the Daily Telegraph
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E7DE1638F934A35754C0A963948260&sec=travel&spon=&pagewanted=2 PAUL GOLDBERGER. GRAND PARISIAN ROOMS ON A LEGENDARY SQUARE] . The New York Times, July 7, 1985.
External links
*John Mariani. [http://www.johnmariani.com/archive/2005/050710/index.html Virtual Gorment Review] , July 10, 2005.
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