We had our final meal of the tour at La Coupole, 102 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75014 Paris.
La Coupole is a historic Montparnasse café /
restaurant (and an official French historic monument), which opened in
1927. This huge restaurant is a temple of Art Déco. It still symbolizes
the “roaring twenties”.
Josephine Baker took a bath in the
fountain, which sits in the middle of the brasserie. Jean-Paul Sartre
dined here. Hemmingway, Fitzgerald and Joyce consorted here. Henry
Miller came here for his morning porridge. Man Ray and Matisse were also
part of the local fauna.
In was and still is to some lesser extent one of the hotspots of the intellectuals of Paris and abroad.
Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Ernest Hemmingway, Picasso, Man Ray, Camus, James Joyce, Josephine Baker, Henri Miller, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin and countless others were regulars at La Coupole.
Despite its large size the cuisine is very good and every dish is carefully prepared.
La Coupole is on the Boulevard du Montparnasseis, very close to three other famous places of the literary world: La Rotonde, Le Dome and La Closerie des Lilas.See: Dining and Wining on Boulevard Montparnasse in Paris: La Rotonde, Le Dôme and La Coupole, France – Pre-Bordeaux Wine Tour 2016 by ombiasy WineTours, France
La Rotonde, 105 Boulevard du Montparnasse: Located on the Carrefour Vavin, at the corner of Boulevard du Montparnasse and Boulevard Raspail, La Rotonde was founded by Victor Libion in 1911. La Rotonde has retained much of its bohemian charm and continues in operation to this day as a popular spot for the Parisian Intelligentsia. Picasso portrayed two diners in the cafe in his painting "In the cafe de la Rotonde" in 1901. It was the preferred place of the Russian crowd, includng Trotsky and Lenin. Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Eliot were also patrons there.
Le Dôme, 108 Boulevard du Montparnasse: From the beginning of the 1900s, it was renowned as an intellectual gathering place. A poor artist used to be able to get a Saucisse de Toulouse and a plate of mashed potatoes for $1. Le Dôme later became the gathering place of the American literary colony and became a focal point for artists residing in Paris's Left Bank. It was widely known as "the Anglo-American café." Today, it is a top fish restaurant, with a comfortably old-fashioned decor. The food writer Patricia Wells said, "I could dine at Le Dôme once a week, feasting on platters of briny oysters and their incomparable sole meunière."
La Closerie des Lilas, 171 Boulevard du Montparnasse: Also situated in Paris' Montparnasse is La Closerie, which opened in 1847 and attracted everyone from Henry James to Leon Trotsky to Gertrude Stein and Hemingway, who references nearby statues and descriptions in The Sun Also Rises.
Pictures: La Coupole, Le Dôme and La Closerie des Lilas at the Beginning of the 1900s
Lunch at La Coupole
Parisunlocked.com: ...Walking through the doors transports you to Paris
circa 1927, the height of the jazz age and a feverishly innovative
period in the arts. It isn’t a stretch to imagine regular patrons such
as Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall,
André Dérain, Colette and Tamara de Lempicka coming through the heavy
glass and metal doors, then sashaying through the enormous Art-Deco
dining room to their regular tables. In later years, it’s been favored
by the likes of Edith Piaf, Hemingway, Albert Camus, Serge Gainsbourg
and Patti Smith. At one of the tables, Camus celebrated his Nobel Prize
in literature with friends and fellow writers. At another, Josephine
Baker frequently sat.
Arriving
Lunch
Menu
The End
After lunch the tour ended.
Annette and I went back to Frankfurt by train.
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