Brasserie Martin can be hired in full or in part for groups of 26 guests or more, with 105 seats for a seated lunch or dinner and room for 130 at a standing cocktail. It is a rotisserie brasserie on Rue Saint-Ambroise, at one corner of Square Gardette in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, and the third address of the La Nouvelle Garde group.
Seminars and company events
The group's privatisation page lists lunches, dinners, cocktails, breakfasts and afterwork drinks among the formats its brasseries accept. For a company, that means a team lunch around long shared tables, an afterwork reception for a department or a dinner for a client group. Parties of 13 to 25 guests do not need a privatisation: the brasserie offers set group menus for them, and a share of its tables is kept free of reservation. From 26 guests, the whole room or a part of it can be reserved for your group alone.
Requests go through the form on the group's site or to its privatisation contact, who handles the French brasseries of La Nouvelle Garde. A brochure is available on the group's site. Say in your request whether you need the full room or a section, the date, the format and the number of guests, so that the team can answer with a proposal.
Weddings and receptions
Weddings appear in the list of events the group's brasseries host. With 105 seated guests inside, 130 standing and a double terrace, Brasserie Martin suits a wedding lunch or dinner, an engagement party or a family reception of moderate size. The official text does not describe a wedding package, so menus, timing and layout are agreed with the privatisation team.
Rooms and capacities
The official page gives capacities for the brasserie as a whole rather than room by room: 105 seated and 130 for a cocktail. The double terrace, exposed to the sun, seats about one hundred people in regular service. Whether the terrace can be added to a hire, and in which season, is a point to settle when you send your request.
Catering
The cooking is done in house. The brasserie's signature is a large rotisserie with four spits that turn from morning to night, serving lamb from the Bourbonnais, Salers beef and farm poultry, with roast chicken as the house dish. The group states that everything is made from raw products, that menus follow the seasons and that it buys directly from producers. Fries and mashed potatoes are made from potatoes grown in the Baie de Somme. Le Petit Martin, the wine-shop version of the brasserie, sells bottles to take away. Brasserie Martin carries the Ecotable label and belongs to the Collège Culinaire de France.
History and setting
Brasserie Martin is the third brasserie of La Nouvelle Garde, a group that defends French brasserie cooking and decor. Its frontage combines a two-tone awning, a stained-glass roast chicken, a neon sign and plants, and can be seen from Rue Saint-Maur. The group describes it as a large neighborhood brasserie with long communal tables.
Getting there
The address is 24 Rue Saint-Ambroise, 75011 Paris, a short walk from Saint-Ambroise station on Metro line 9. The brasserie is open every day from 9:30 a.m. to midnight, with the last dinner order at 10:30 p.m. (11 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday).
