Bouillon Pigalle rents out its upper floor for private lunches and dinners of up to 80 guests, on weekdays. It also takes group bookings of 12 to 100 people in the main restaurant, again on weekdays. The brasserie opened in 2017 at 22 boulevard de Clichy, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, a short walk from the Moulin Rouge and Montmartre.
Seminars and company events
The format here is a meal, not a meeting room. Companies book the upper floor for a team lunch, a year-end dinner, a farewell or a gathering after an off-site day. Private hire runs on weekdays only: no space is privatized from Friday evening to Sunday evening. There is no fixed time slot. The floor can be booked at any point of the day or evening, and the time is set with the sales team.
Payment can be made on site, by bank transfer or through Chorus, the French public-sector invoicing platform, which helps public bodies and large companies. A booking is confirmed by a signed quote or a card imprint. Audiovisual equipment is listed for the sister restaurant's private salons; ask whether the same applies at Pigalle before you plan a speech with slides.
Rooms and capacities
The restaurant has two levels. The main room seats about 200 diners and the balcony upstairs about 100. For private hire, the upper floor takes up to 80 guests. Group bookings in the open restaurant run from 12 to 100 guests. Floor areas and standing figures are not published.
Catering
The kitchen serves the same menu for private events as in the dining room. Set group menus are offered, each with at least one vegetarian option, and the dishes change with the seasons. Menus can be printed in French or in English, which helps with international teams.
The cooking follows the old Parisian bouillon: eggs with mayonnaise, onion soup, snails in parsley butter, salt cod brandade, beef bourguignon, calf's head with gribiche sauce, then profiteroles, floating island or rice pudding. Wine, beer and bubbles are poured by the glass or the carafe.
History and setting
The bouillon was born in 1855, when the butcher Pierre-Louis Duval opened a restaurant serving lesser cuts and their broth at low prices. The idea spread across Paris in the 19th century. Bouillon Pigalle revived it in 2017 on boulevard de Clichy, with red leatherette banquettes, Thonet bistro chairs and paper tablecloths. In 2021 the same team opened Bouillon République in the former Chez Jenny, in the 3rd arrondissement, whose four salons take larger private groups.
The restaurant serves from about noon to midnight, every day of the week. The room is busy and loud, which suits a relaxed team meal more than a quiet board dinner.
Getting there
The address is 22 boulevard de Clichy, 75018 Paris. Pigalle metro station, on lines 2 and 12, is at the door. Buses 30, 54 and 74 stop nearby. Gare Saint-Lazare and Gare du Nord are a short metro ride away for teams arriving by train.
