The Alcazar can host client evenings, product launches, receptions and private dinner shows for up to 300 seated guests or 460 at a standing cocktail, with smaller rooms for 8 to 40. The venue is a restaurant and dinner-show house at 62 rue Mazarine, in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of Paris's 6th arrondissement.
Seminars and company events
The house takes group bookings from 15 guests and can be privatized in part or in full. Formats listed for companies include a seated dinner, a cocktail, a presentation or speech, a product launch, a client evening and a large party. A presentation can open the evening before drinks, or a dinner can close a working day held elsewhere. The events team builds the room choice, menu, cocktails, music and running order with the organizer.
For a smaller business meeting, the Salon Céleste upstairs is described as suited to private dinners, professional meetings and presentations. For the largest events, full privatization combines the ground floor and the first floor: the Grande Salle and its stage, the Grand Bar, the Mezzanine and its bar, and the more private rooms.
Weddings and receptions
The house sells private receptions and celebrations, from a birthday in an alcove to a party for several hundred guests. Weddings are not named on the official pages; couples should ask the events team directly.
Rooms and capacities
The Grande Salle sits under a twelve-meter glass roof, around a stage with a proscenium and a monumental staircase. It seats up to 180 guests on the ground floor and suits a privatized dinner show, a reception or a client evening, with artists who can perform on the stage, the stairs and between tables. The Grand Bar on the same level handles arrivals and cocktails.
Upstairs, the Mezzanine and its bar give a quieter space with a partial view of the hall. The Salon Céleste takes 30 seated or 40 standing in a room reserved for one group. The Alcoves take up to 8 guests each, for a small table inside a larger evening. With both floors privatized, the Alcazar holds 300 seated or 460 standing.
Catering
Two chefs, Zouhair Bouhlal and Guillaume Lutard, run the kitchen. Their menu starts from the French repertoire, such as pâté en croûte, onion soup, beef fillet, fish with beurre nantais, roast poultry, rum baba and profiteroles, with Mediterranean and Italian touches. For events, the chefs adapt the food to the occasion: a plated menu, sharing plates or a freer format. The cocktail list can follow each stage, from welcome drinks to the end of the night.
History and setting
Jean-Marie Rivière opened the Alcazar as a cabaret in 1968. Duke Ellington celebrated his 70th birthday there on November 20, 1969, Dalida played Sally Bowles on its stage, Rainer Werner Fassbinder filmed scenes there in 1973 and David Bowie came after his Paris concert in 1976. Queen received a gold record there before performing. In 1980 the troupe, its costumes and sets travelled to the Desert Inn in Las Vegas. In 1998 Sir Terence Conran turned the cabaret into a large contemporary brasserie. The house, now part of the Butler Collection, has been redesigned with red velvet, gilding, mosaics and the restored glass roof.
On regular nights, a live band plays Monday to Wednesday, and the dinner show Paris s'éveille runs Thursday to Sunday, followed by a DJ until 2 a.m.
Getting there
The address is 62 rue Mazarine, 75006 Paris. Odéon station, on Métro lines 4 and 10, is the closest. Mabillon (line 10) and Saint-Germain-des-Prés (line 4) are also within walking distance. Several public car parks serve the area around Odéon and the Saint-Germain market.
