Boubalé can host company dinners for up to 65 guests and cocktail receptions for up to 130 in the Marais, in Paris. The restaurant belongs to the hotel Le Grand Mazarin, at 6 rue des Archives in the 4th arrondissement, which offers part or all of its spaces for hire: the restaurant, a winter garden, a bar and a small speakeasy called Le Petit Bazar. Each space has its own configuration, and the hotel presents formats from business meetings to large events.
Seminars and company events
The hotel presents its venues for business gatherings, cocktail receptions and private dinners. For a corporate dinner or a client evening, the Boubalé dining room is the main space, seated for up to 65 guests. For an after-work reception or a product evening, the cocktail format raises that figure to 130. Smaller groups can use the winter garden or the bar, which keeps a team dinner or a post-event drink at a more intimate scale. The official pages do not describe a conference room, screens or a seminar package, so organisers who need a working session should ask what the hotel can set up.
Weddings and receptions
The event page speaks of cocktail receptions, intimate celebrations and tailor-made receptions, but it does not list weddings as a format. A private anniversary, a family celebration or a reception can be discussed, and the cocktail and dinner capacities below give the limits. Organisers planning a civil or religious wedding should confirm with the hotel that this kind of event is accepted.
Rooms and capacities
The Boubalé restaurant seats up to 65 guests at dinner and up to 130 at a cocktail. The winter garden takes up to 35 guests at dinner and up to 50 at a cocktail. The bar takes up to 28 guests at dinner and up to 40 at a cocktail. Le Petit Bazar is a speakeasy with a bar and seating that can be privatized and adapted, but the site gives no figure for it. The winter garden is described as a seasonal space, open from the first days of spring to the first frosts of autumn, so it is not an option for a winter date.
Accommodation
Le Grand Mazarin is a hotel, so guests can stay on site. The official pages consulted do not give a bedroom count or a group rate, so ask for the number of rooms available on your dates when you plan an event with overnight guests.
Catering
Catering comes from the restaurant. Boubalé cooks at the crossroads of Eastern Europe and the Middle East, with mezzes and Mediterranean influences and spices from the Levant and Turkey. Menus change with the seasons, and the hotel describes formats from relaxed lunches to evening celebrations. A seated brunch runs every Sunday from noon to 3 pm, and the restaurant also offers set menus for the festive season.
History and setting
The dining room is decorated with ceiling frescoes, velvet and custom porcelain, in a style the hotel calls Byzantine. The winter garden shows the work of the artist Sophia Pega, with twelve windows onto imaginary worlds in a planted setting. The name Boubalé is a Yiddish term of endearment, the one the two co-founders of Maisons Pariente heard from their grandmothers.
Getting there
The hotel stands at the corner of rue de la Verrerie and rue des Archives, in the Marais. The pages consulted do not name metro stations, so check the route for your group before sending the invitation.
