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Fouquet's Paris is a historic high-end brasserie
In France, Flanders, and the Francophone world, a brasserie () is a type of French restaurant with a relaxed setting, which serves single dishes and other meals. The word ''brasserie'' is also French for "brewery" and, by extension, "the brew ...
restaurant
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in Paris
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, France
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. It is located at 99 Avenue des Champs-Élysées
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées (, ; ) is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, long and wide, running between the Place de la Concorde in the east and the Place Charles de Gaulle in the west, where the Arc de Triomphe is lo ...
and is part of Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris. The menu, designed in collaboration with Chef Pierre Gagnaire
Pierre Gagnaire (born 9 April 1950 in Apinac, Loire) is a French chef, and the head chef and owner of the eponymous Pierre Gagnaire restaurant at 6 rue Balzac in Paris (in the 8th arrondissement). Gagnaire is an iconoclastic chef at the forefro ...
, continues the tradition of classic French cuisine, including Fouquet's beef tartare, sole meunière, Simmental beef fillet with Champs-Elysées sauce.
The brasserie is famous for its red awnings on the Champs-Elysées, which spread over the two terrasses on the Champs-Elysées and George V
George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until Death and state funeral of George V, his death in 1936.
Born duri ...
avenues.
For decades, Fouquet's Paris has been a place where people from the Culture industry would meet. It has strong ties with the Cinema, and hosts every year the traditional Gala dinner after the César ceremony.
The restaurant is listed as a historical French monument since 1990 (Inventaire des Monuments Historiques). The historical decor includes mahogany woodpanelling by Jean Royere, Harcourt portraits of notable actors and actresses, and discreet brass plaques which indicate the favourite tables of famous people. Most frequent guests own their silver napkin rings with their name engraved on it.
Although the name of the restaurant's founder, ouisFouquet, is pronounced in the standard French way, rhyming with "bouquet", the restaurant name is pronounced with a hard "t" and "s", rhyming with the English word "nets".
History
Fouquet's brasserie was founded in 1899 by Louis Fouquet. He called it after his French last name, "Fouquet", and added the "'s" to give it a trendy style, although he was born and raised in France. Since 1990, the main room is listed as a historical French monument (Inventaire des Monuments Historiques). In 1998, Fouquet's was purchased by Groupe Barrière. Then, the family owned French group created Hotel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris by acquiring 6 buildings around the brasserie. Groupe Barrière inaugurated other ''FouquetCannes
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, Toulouse
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, Courchevel
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, La Baule
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A century-old seaside resort in southe ...
, Enghien-les-Bains
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Enghien-les-Bains is famous as a spa resort and a well-to-do suburb of Paris, developed in ...
), Switzerland (Montreux
Montreux (, , ; frp, Montrolx) is a Swiss municipality and town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps. It belongs to the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, and has a population of approximat ...
), Morocco (Marrakesh
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), and the United Arab Emirates (in the Louvre Abu Dhabi
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).
In March 2019, the restaurant was severely damaged during yellow vest protests. The restaurant Fouquet's Paris reopened a few month later for Bastille day, on July 14, 2019, identical as it was before.
In popular culture
Once per year Fouquet's hosts the traditional gala dinner for theCésar Award Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol
* ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt
* César Award, a French film award
Places
* Cesar, Portugal
* C ...
s, French equivalent of the Oscar.
Former head chefs
André FevreSee also
*Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet's
Hôtel Barrière Le Fouquet's Paris is a 5-star hotel located at 46 Avenue George V in Paris, France. The hotel, owned by the French hospitality and casino group Groupe Lucien Barrière, Barrière, opened on 6 November 2006 and is a member of The ...
* List of French restaurants
This is a list of notable French restaurants. French cuisine consists of cooking traditions and practices from France, famous for the rich tastes and subtle nuances with long and rich history. France, a country famous for its agriculture and indepe ...
References
External links
Fouquet's official homepage
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