Bel Canto Paris can host private company evenings, incentive dinners and group celebrations built around a live opera performance, for groups from 12 guests and up to 200 guests in all. The restaurant is at 72 Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, on the Seine, facing the Île de la Cité and the Île Saint-Louis. Waiters at the restaurant are also the singers, so the dinner and the show run together.
Seminars and company events
Bel Canto is an evening venue for corporate dinners, client entertainment and incentive programmes, not a seminar site. The official group page invites organisers of company evenings and incentives, and offers all-inclusive group formulas for events above 12 guests, which helps keep control of the budget. A private booking can cover one room or the whole restaurant. For a company evening, the performance gives the dinner a built-in programme: a quartet of singers accompanied by a pianist performs well-known opera arias between the courses.
Rooms and capacities
The Paris restaurant has two rooms and a covered terrace. The ground-floor room can be hired for up to 80 guests. The first-floor room takes up to 100 guests. A covered terrace faces the Seine quays and the Île Saint-Louis. Together, the site states that the restaurant welcomes up to 200 guests. Both rooms are decorated with costumes made by the workshops of the Paris National Opera, according to the venue.
The group also runs a second restaurant at Neuilly, Porte Maillot, which is a different venue with its own room plan and which the group says suits groups above 20 guests better. This page covers the Hôtel de Ville address.
Catering
The restaurant provides the food. At a standard dinner show, guests choose from four starters, four main courses, a cheese assortment or three desserts, and a glass of champagne is served as an aperitif. Canapés, starter, main course and dessert are each punctuated by performances. A children's menu is offered up to age 12. All-inclusive group formulas are available, and the reservation team will set the menu with you.
History and setting
The room is dressed as a small opera house: a piano, a stage costume from William Tell, posters of major productions, including one from La Scala in Milan. The evening follows a set timetable. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., piano ambience starts at 7:45, the first aria is sung at 8:00 p.m., then one aria every 15 to 20 minutes, with the last at 11:30 p.m. The Paris restaurant is open Tuesday to Saturday from 7:30 p.m.
Getting there
Bel Canto is on the Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville, between the Marais and the Seine, a short walk from the Hôtel de Ville and from the Île Saint-Louis. Metro and bus lines serve the Hôtel de Ville area, and Paris has two main airports, Orly and Charles de Gaulle, each reachable by road or rail in roughly an hour.
