Au Cadet de Gascogne can host a group meal from 15 guests, a company dinner, a seminar lunch, a wedding or a birthday, with a first floor that seats up to 100 people or takes 120 for a cocktail. The restaurant stands at 4 Place du Tertre, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, at the top of the Montmartre hill.
Seminars and company events
The restaurant lists seminars, private events and tourist groups among the occasions it hosts. For a company, the most common formats are a team dinner, a client evening, a cocktail party or a lunch that follows a meeting held elsewhere in Paris. Group menus are offered from 15 guests, and the team prepares a set menu for each booking.
The restaurant does not describe a meeting room or projection equipment on its website. A working session with slides should be checked with the team before booking. The first floor is better suited to the social part of a company program: a dinner, a reception or an evening with live music.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings, birthdays and other private celebrations are listed alongside company events. The restaurant offers a list of extra services for a party: a vineyard visit, a caricaturist, a magician, floral decoration, a French cancan show, musicians and singers, a DJ, a photographer and a photo booth. These can turn a dinner into a full evening without bringing in an outside planner.
Every evening from 8 p.m., a pianist and singer or a guitarist performs French and international songs in the restaurant. For New Year's Eve, the program adds a DJ.
Rooms and capacities
The private space is on the first floor and looks out over Place du Tertre and its painters. It takes up to 100 guests seated and up to 120 for a cocktail. Two forms of private hire are offered: the first floor alone, or the whole restaurant. Individual table bookings are limited to 14 guests; above that, the group service applies.
Catering
The kitchen serves traditional French dishes prepared by the restaurant's chef. Group menus come in several options, and seasonal set menus are offered for Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. All catering is in-house, so there is no outside caterer to coordinate. Drinks and the music program are handled by the same team.
The restaurant is open every day from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m., which leaves room for a breakfast meeting as well as a late dinner. It belongs to a small group of Paris brasseries that also includes La Mère Catherine, Le Moulin de la Galette, Café Louise and Le Bistro Marbeuf.
History and setting
Place du Tertre is the old village square of Montmartre, known for the painters who set up their easels there every day. The Basilica of the Sacré-Cœur is a few steps away. For visitors from outside Paris, a dinner on the square combines a central address with one of the city's best-known views, and a walk through the old streets of Montmartre fits easily before or after the meal.
Getting there
The restaurant is in the heart of Montmartre, on a pedestrian square at the top of the hill. The nearest metro stations are Abbesses on line 12 and Anvers on line 2, from which the Montmartre funicular climbs toward the Sacré-Cœur. Coaches and cars cannot stop on the square itself, so groups should plan a short walk from the drop-off point.
