In Paris, where a restaurant’s popularity seems to be inversely related to the number of seats, dining in a big group isn’t easy. Try booking for ten at a twenty-seat spot and you’re likely to be laughed right off the phone. But don’t despair – there are a handful of Paris restaurants that can welcome groups (of greater than six) with excellent food and reasonable prices. Here are our favorites.
Five Great Places for Groups:
- Les Papilles – a downstairs chamber for wine glugging, rugby watching (warning: no-choice menu)
- Dans les Landes – several long tables let you gather a group for tapas
- Drouant – lots of big tables and private rooms at this classic address near the Opéra
- Astier – the private room can seat forty, the cheese plate could feed an army
- Le Chapeau Melon – one long table to seat your friends, low wine prices to keep them watered (warning: no-choice menu)
Runners up: Le Tintilou, Jeanne A, L’Ambassade d’Auvergne
Rejects: Aux Lyonnais
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Hi,
Here is my modest contribution to this topic (alas, in French). Some choices are common (with hopefully some interesting details), some choices are different.
I hope this can be of some help, and sorry that i borrowed your title.
http://laviedemix.over-blog.com/article-great-for-groups-99878037.html
Surely it wasn’t necessary to call Aux Lyonnais a reject….such a negative connotation.
Hi doubledown, “rejects” are places that received no positive votes when put before our contributing editors and instead received requests that they be removed from the list. So, yes, the negative connotation is intended. We don’t think it’s worth a trip.